Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this nine-month fellowship is an opportunity for a healthcare professional to serve their community in a new and unique way.
A Graduate Center-affiliated sociologist is remembered as one of the most respected academic voices on women’s affairs in North Africa.
While people of MENA heritage are by no means monolithic, they do share one common experience in the United States. On official forms, most don’t see themselves represented among the check boxes for race or ethnicity. With few good options, many end up being counted as “white.”
The new Department of Social and Critical Inquiry unites four CLAS formerly non-departmentally organized units into a single department: the American Studies Program, the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
Based on data from the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department, the suicide risk among service members and veterans of Asian American and Pacific Islander descent (AAPI) was 350% higher than the national average.
The Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI) is an eight-week intensive language training program for undergraduates, graduate students, professionals, and non-traditional students. Students learn speaking, reading, listening, and writing skills through classroom instruction and a full range of co-curricular activities.