Project Directors

April 30, 2016
Soniya Munshi
By Keith Miyake on April 30, 2016
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April 29, 2016
Jennifer Hayashida
By Keith Miyake on April 29, 2016
Jennifer Hayashida is a writer, translator, and visual artist. Her most recent projects include translation from the Swedish of...
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April 28, 2016
Caroline Hong
By Keith Miyake on April 28, 2016
Caroline Kyungah Hong is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Queens College, CUNY. She has...
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April 27, 2016
Patricia Mathews-Salazar
By Keith Miyake on April 27, 2016
I was born and raised in Lima Peru. I attended college at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú where I...
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April 26, 2016
Nita Noveno
By Keith Miyake on April 26, 2016
Nita Noveno teaches English Composition and Literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. She also taught, mentored, and...
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April 25, 2016
Linta Varghese
By Keith Miyake on April 25, 2016
Linta Varghese is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work examines low...
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April 24, 2016
Keith Miyake
By Keith Miyake on April 24, 2016
Keith Miyake is a Doctoral Candidate in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His...
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Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom is a program to expand the teaching of Asian American Studies in community college classrooms across humanities disciplines. The program will begin with a Faculty Development Summer Institute for CUNY Community College Faculty and will be followed by a monthly public Colloquium in Asian American Studies at BMCC in the 2016-17 academic year.

Through engagement with academic scholarship, literary texts, community organizing and cultural work, this interdisciplinary Summer Institute for CUNY Community College Faculty will support participants to study and develop curricular materials for use in the classroom. The Institute will examine the following areas: critical concepts and frameworks in Asian American Studies; new Asian immigrant communities in New York City; gender and sexual labor; transnationalism and cultural production; Asian/American racialization, race and caste, cross-racial relationships, and diaspora. Being grounded in the diversity of our local communities allows us to cultivate what historian Robin Kelley calls a “polycultural” framework, or one that recognizes interrelationships between different cultures. By learning from texts by and about local Asian American communities, we can gain a better understanding of the dynamism and complexity of New York City itself.

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Soniya Munshi

Jennifer Hayashida

Caroline Hong

Patricia Mathews-Salazar

Nita Noveno

Linta Varghese

Keith Miyake

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