Awards & Scholarships

2026 Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Fund

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Betty Lee Sung, co-founder of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), Professor Emerita, City College of New York, and recipient of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award, has established an endowment of $100,000 at the City University of New York to create a research fund under the auspices of AAARI, on Asian American topics. The fund is intended to support the research by providing funds for a research assistant, copywriter, research travel, acquisition or access to research material and similar costs so that the researcher can complete the project.

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2026 CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship

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The Tam Scholarship is awarded annually to a qualified CUNY undergraduate student (Asian or non-Asian) who demonstrates creativity in raising awareness about issues facing the Asian American community.

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2027 CUNY Faculty Research Support Program

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The Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s CUNY Faculty Research Support Program is designed to support CUNY faculty to conduct research that seeks to answer critical questions about Asian American and Asian diasporic communities.

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2026 Community Researcher/Evaluator Incubator Program

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The incubator program seeks to address critical gaps in policy research related to AANHPI communities, bridge the gap between academia and nonprofits, build capacity of nonprofit staff to lead policy research on AANHPI communities, increase knowledge of emerging and evolving needs of AANHPIs, and provide funding to AANHPI-serving nonprofits.

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2026-2027 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor

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R. Benedito Ferrão is Associate Professor of English and Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies at William & Mary, with affiliations in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. His honors include being named University Professor for Teaching Excellence (2025-28), the Jinlan Liu Award for Research in APIA Studies (2024-27), a Coco Faculty Fellowship (2026-27), a Fulbright-Nehru Research Award (2019-20), and fellowships with the American Institute of Indian Studies and the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at Bayreuth.

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