Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
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.
Getting ready to publish your research? SEAC will award approximately five grants of up to $1,000 each annually to support faculty publishing related to Southeast Asia and Southeast Asians (including in the diaspora). Expenses covered may include, for instance, in-person or hybrid book, article, or book-proposal workshops; translation costs; publishing subventions; or open-access fees. Recipients … Read more
SEAC is delighted to be able to award annually a small number of summer or sabbatical fieldwork grants for faculty, and predissertation/dissertation research grants (which may include language training) for graduate students. Awards will be for up to $5,000. Recipients must be faculty, researchers, or students at a SUNY or CUNY institution at the time … Read more
On May 11, 1972, in a letter to The Student, Asian and Asian American students at Amherst made the first call for an Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies major. 52 years later, the college has finally begun to listen.