Summer Institute Faculty

May 3, 2016
Thenmozhi Soundarajan
By Keith Miyake on May 3, 2016
Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a transmedia storyteller and journalist who believes story is the most important unit of social change....
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May 2, 2016
Anantha Sudhakar
By Keith Miyake on May 2, 2016
Dr. Anantha Sudhakar is Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies Department at San Franscico State University. She previously...
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May 1, 2016
Manu Vimalassery
By Keith Miyake on May 1, 2016
Manu Vimalassery is Term Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College. A co-editor of The Sun Never Sets: South...
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May 1, 2016
Jaret Vadera
By Keith Miyake on May 1, 2016
Jaret Vadera is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer whose work explores the poetics of translation and the politics...
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April 29, 2016
Betty Yu
By Keith Miyake on April 29, 2016
Betty Yu is a Chinese-American NYC based interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, media educator and longtime social justice activist. Her documentary...
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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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Thenmozhi Soundarajan

Anantha Sudhakar

Manu Vimalassery

Jaret Vadera

Betty Yu

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