AARC News

The Asian American Research Center partnered with Chinese for Affirmative Action and many UC Berkeley departments, institutes and centers to hold an event, “F-1 Visa Revocation Updates & Practical Advice for All Immigrants.” The event featured:

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AAPI Data, a project of the Asian American Research Center, released a report showing AAPI communities stand on college cuts, student deportations, and taxes on the wealthy. AAPI adults continue to...Read more about AAPI Views on Higher Ed and Intergenerational Progress

A common perception of Asian American studies is that, in emphasizing the centrality of race and rejecting class reductionism, its mission has been to go “beyond” Marxism. This special issue of the journal Amerasia begins from a different premise: Though it is certainly the case that...Read more about CFP: Marxism and Asian American Studies

Are you a talented artist or graphic designer with a passion for showcasing the beauty and strength of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities? AAPI Data is thrilled to open up this opportunity to create designs that reflect the experiences of our AANHPI...Read more about Unleash Your Creativity: 2025 AAPI Data Design Contest

Colleen Lye was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2025 Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Excellence in Mentoring Award! Colleen Lye is AARC Chair and Associate Professor of English at the...Read more about Colleen Lye Recognized for Outstanding Mentorship

Elora Shehabuddin, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate and UC Berkeley Global Studies chair, promotes a strong and supportive academic community for her faculty colleagues and students....Read more about Global Studies chair discusses research, leadership and importance of her field

Five years after the peak of COVID-19, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliates Khatharya Um and Julian Chow...Read more about The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian Americans

An essay by Hidetaka Hirota, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, was just published in TIME Magazine. Hirota discusses how advocates of strict border policing typically...Read more about The Long American Tradition of Categorizing Immigrants as Either Good or Bad

AARC faculty affiliate Poulomi Saha breaks down season three of the HBO series, from why it's set in Thailand to...Read more about Freudian themes and fantasies in ‘The White Lotus’

Colleen Lye, Chair of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, was one of the UC Berkeley faculty speaking out for academic freedom at a...Read more about Freedom to Learn, Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Speak

Hidetaka Hirota, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, was interviewed by Berkeley News to discuss the deep roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the...Read more about How Trump’s immigration policies compare to those of America’s past

The public lost access to Census Bureau data for days after a Trump order. An NPR story discussing threats to public data and their implications for...Read more about Access to Census Bureau data

As the winners of the Sage Teaching category, Asian American Research Center (AARC) faculty affliate Abigail De Kosnik, Jingyi Li, and AARC graduate student...Read more about Diversity in Film and TV

Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate Poulomi Saha was featured on an episode of the Berkeley Voices podcast to discuss their...Read more about As crises escalate, so does our fascination with cults

On November 6, AAPI Data, a project based at the Asian American Research Center, hosted over 150 journalists and community leaders to offer early analysis of what the election results and national exit poll data indicated about AAPI voters.

A panel of national experts (Karthick...Read more about 2024 Election Results & AAPIs: What Do the Data Tell Us?

Lena Chen, Asian American Research Center graduate student affiliate, has won three awards for her film, "The Last Mayor of Chinatown," which tells the story of the rise, decline, and...Read more about The Last Mayor of Chinatown

Thomas Philip, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, has been named an ISLS Fellow by the International Society of the Learning Sciences. This program recognizes highly accomplished...Read more about Congratulations Thomas Philip!

AARC awarded grants to six UCB faculty members - Harvey Dong, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Hidetaka Hirota, SanSan Kwan, Margiana Peterson-Rockney...Read more about Asian American Research Center Awards New Grants for Faculty and Graduate Students

Thomas M. Philip, faculty affiliate of the Asian American Research Center, was awarded the Chancellor's...Read more about Institutional Excellence and Equity

Salar Mameni, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, is the author of an essay/book review in ...Read more about A Living Peninsula v. the Militarized-Extractive Economy

Funded by the Asian American Research Center, journalism students Wangyuxuan Xu and Zhe Wu have produced a film about Chinese immigrants working on cannabis farms. The documentary follows two cannabis growers as they persevere to achieve the American Dream...Read more about Green Gold Land

Asian American Research Center student affiliate Maria “Mavi” Victória Riberio Ruy has recently co-authored an essay titled “The Choice of Liberdade: Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism and the Activism’s Response.” The essay provides a brief overview of Asian racial...Read more about Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism

The Asian American Research Center has received a grant of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a new project: Community Archival Resilience and Engagement...Read more about New Grant from NEH for AARC

Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate Philip Kan Gotanda has been awarded the USA Fellowship for “rich contributions to the cultural fabric of the country." Gotanda’s...Read more about United States Artists Fellowship Awarded to Philip Kan Gotanda

Poulomi Saha, AARC faculty affiliate, navigates the appeal of cult culture in this Berkeley Talks podcast. Comparing today’s desire for overarching meaning, radical acceptance,...Read more about Are Cults the New Black?

Hidetaka Hirota, AARC faculty affiliate, discusses the history of immigrants and the U.S. transcontinental railroad in this Berkeley Talks podcast. The discussion acknowledges that...Read more about American Railroad

Published in the journal Sociological Inquiry, AARC faculty affiliate Eos Trinidad discusses changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s. ...Read more about An Organizational Sociology of Education

AARC faculty affiliates Khatharya Um and Julian Chun-Chung Chow were awarded a grant from The California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research (CPR³). Their...Read more about The Impact of COVID-19 on Asian American Communities

In this Berkeley News interview, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez explains why there are so many...Read more about Understanding Filipinx Residents of Hawaii

Sponsored by the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians and the Asian American Research Center, this one day conference focused on healthy equity and physician leadership post-COVID. Video is now available of the...Read more about Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Equity in a Post-Covid Era: Pathways for Advocacy, Leadership, and Research

Lok Siu, chair of the Asian American Research Center, has been named Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley. Her new term will begin in January 2024; she will serve as the point...Read more about Welcoming Lok Siu as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

In the new book Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke University Press), Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate Salar Mameni theorizes the emergence of the Terracene: a period...Read more about On the Brink of the Terracene

Asian American Research Center Graduate Student Joshua Acosta is the author of an essay for Nursing Clio, a venue for histories of medicine, race, and gender. "...Read more about Citizenship, Race, and Disease

A New York Times article on “Chino Latino” restaurants in New York City relies on research by Lok Siu, Asian American Research Center faculty chair, “Many of the restaurants were opened by the descendants of Chinese immigrants who moved to countries like Cuba, Peru...Read more about A New Hope for Manhattan’s Chino Latino Restaurants: TikTok

The U.S. Department of Education officially designated UC Berkeley as an Asian American, Native American Pacific...Read more about UC Berkeley Officially Designated an AANAPISI-Serving Institution

We congratulate our graduate student affiliates on these recent fellowships, awards, and grants:

Videos are now available from the fall conference "Diasporic Futures: Sinophobia, Techno-Political Strife, and the Politics of Care," the 30th Anniversary Conference of the founding of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, sponsored by the Asian American Research...Read more about "Diasporic Futures: Sinophobia, Techno-Political Strife, and the Politics of Care" Playlist

A new book co-edited by Mel Y. Chen, faculty affiliate of the Asian American Research Center, challenges the traditionally white, Western, and Northern rights-based approach to disability studies. The book...Read more about Crip Genealogies

Abigail De Kosnik, faculty affiliate of Asian American Research Center, is one of five UC Berkeley instructors chosen to receive the campus's...Read more about Congratulations Abigail De Kosnik

"Navigating Ideologies: Colonial Journalism in 19th Century Macau and Hong Kong" is a new article in Review of Culture...Read more about Navigating Ideologies

Congratulations to Thomas Philip, member of the Asian American Research Center Advisory Board, who was just named a 2023 American Educational Research Association Fellow! Philip’s research focuses on...Read more about Congratulations Thomas Philip!

AARC awarded grants to five UCB faculty members - Kazumi Hoshino, Andrew Leong, Nancy Liu, Cecilia Mo, and Poulomi Saha - and eight graduate students -...Read more about Asian American Research Center Awards New Grants in 2023

One of the foremost scholars of Asian diaspora studies, Asian American Research Center Chair Lok Siu has broken new ground in linking hemispheric and transpacific approaches to the study of Asian migration. She is a highly regarded teacher and...Read more about Lok Siu and Carolyn Chen Promoted to Full Professor

A new article was published in American Literary History by Colleen Lye, faculty affliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center. Lye addresses how ...Read more about Asian American Cultural Critique at the End of the US Empire

A new book co-authored by Khatharya Um, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Resarch...Read more about Departures

This Berkeley News story features Carolyn Chen, ISSI graduate fellow alum and now faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center and Center for Research on Social Change. Chen shares her research done for her recent book,...Read more about When Work Becomes Your Religion, Nothing Else Matters

Dr. Franklin Odo passed away on September 28, 2022. Dr. Odo was best known for being the founding director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and for his path-breaking research on Japanese American history. His books include Roots: An Asian American Reader (1971...Read more about AARC Mourns the Loss of Franklin Odo

In an episode of "The Takeaway" podcast, Catherine Ceniza Choy discusses her new book, ...Read more about Asian American Histories of the United States

Khatharya Um, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, tells her personal story...Read more about Khatharya Um Shares Her Story

Congratulations to Lok Siu, Chair of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, for receiving a 2022 Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award. "She has the unique ability...Read more about Congratulations Lok Siu

The Asian American and Pacific Islander Standing Committee (AAPISC) of UC Berkeley has issued a new report, “Twenty Years Later: Asian Americans and...Read more about New Report on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at UC Berkeley

Khatharya Um, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, has recently been appointed Associate Dean in the Social Sciences...Read more about New Leadership Role for Khatharya Um

On October 1, 2021, this panel kicked off a symposium honoring Michael Omi on the occasion of his retirement. Victor Rios, Lisa Lowe, and Troy Duster discussed Omi's work and its implications in the academy and community...Read more about Honoring Michael Omi: Racial Formations

Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, former ISSI Graduate Fellow and now a faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, has been selected by the Cal Alumni Association Board of Directors and the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees to receive the...Read more about Congratulations Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani

In an interview with Berkeley News on the occasion of his retirement, Michael Omi, faculty affiliate of ISSI, reflects on his career and the...Read more about How Asking Questions Can Lead to Empowering Others

Khatharya Um, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, has profiled notable women faculty from the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program for...Read more about Pioneering Women of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program

Over the last year, crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander population in America has increased by 146 percent. Many link the cause to the Trump administration's use of racist rhetoric when addressing the coronavirus crisis. In this CBS News article, Lok...Read more about The Painful History of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in America

Elaine Kim, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, discusses her experiences as Berkeley's first tenured Asian woman...Read more about Reckoning with Race Many Years in the Making

Asian Americans have the largest economic disparity of any group. This piece in Vox.com by Lok Siu, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, explains...Read more about Comic/Graphic Explainer on the Asian American Wealth Gap

An interview with Lok Siu, a faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, in the Berkeley News investigates the...Read more about Anti-Asian Violence is an American Tradition

Lok Siu, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center was interviewed in a number of media outlets analyzing the increase in anti-Asian hate as the pandemic wears on. In the...Read more about The Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in the Pandemic