ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Mission
- Connect with students, professors, faculty, and alumni to (eventually) start an Asian American Studies Program.
- Research the history of ASAM Studies at Princeton and reach out to alumni to learn about their involvement in ASAM Studies movements.
Progress and Accomplishments in 2013-2014
- Published a report calling for the establishment of an Asian American studies program at Princeton (link)
- AASA's push for an Asian American Studies certificate at Princeton has received a lot of press coverage by The Daily Princetonian and the Princeton Alumni Weekly in the past few months. Read below for the key updates:
Asian American Studies: Backers see hopeful signs
At ad hoc meeting, decades-old push for Asian-American Studies program revived
AASA President Linda Zhong defends race studies in response to 'Studying the Melting Pot'
The Daily Princetonian Editorial Board supports an Asian-American Studies program - Began an archive of documents relating to the push for Asian American studies in the 1990s (link)
- Published results of a survey on perceptions of Asian American identity at Princeton (link)
- Two courses in Asian American studies were offered AY 2013-2014: AMS 354, Asian Americans and Public Memory/History and AAS 225, Introduction to Asian American Studies: "Too Cute!" and the New Asiamania
- Princeton hires its first professor in Asian American history, Beth Lew-Williams (link)
- Started Unfound, an undergraduate academic journal on Asian American Studies
| 2013 Asian American Studies Report Final |
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About the Chair
Andrew Hahm
Hello! My name is Andrew Hahm, and I am this year's Asian American (ASAM) Studies Chair. I am a potential mathematics major from Ramsey, NJ. As the ASAM Studies Chair, I'm responsible for making sure that there is strong undergraduate support for the creation of an ASAM Studies program here on campus. I'm really excited for all of the progress ASAM Studies has made in the past year, and I'm looking forward to all of the progress we'll make this year! You can find me anywhere but Dillon Gym.
