The New Asian NYC: Mobilization, Grassroots Power & Pluralistic Futures
Exploring grassroots power & Asian American futures in NYC after Zohran Mamdani’s historic election.
borough of manhattan community college
On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD: A Novella
Prof. Francisco Delgado will read and discuss his novella, On Remembering My Friends, My First Job, and My Second-Favorite Weezer CD (TRP: The University Press of SHSU, July 2025).
2024 AAARI Symposium Call for Proposals – Interrogating AAPI Identities: Intersectional Scholarship, Organizing and Transformative Solidarities
We invite students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian American studies and/or communities.
Teaching Asian American Studies at CUNY: A Roundtable with the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI)
Roundtable discussion on Teaching Asian American Studies at City University of New York (CUNY) for the Asian American Policy Review, a Harvard Kennedy School student publication. MODERATOR Soniya Munshi is Interim Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) at CUNY, an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic and … Read more
2023 AAARI Conference Call for Proposals – Asian American Studies across CUNY: Reflections, Connections, Futures
We invite students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian American studies and/or communities.
Where CHamoru Identity Continues: The Decolonial Poetics of the CHamoru Diaspora in California
Prof. Francisco Delgado’s current project examines how Chamorro poets reimagine the landscape of California as an extension of their home island. In particular, through a careful reading of works by Chamorro poets like Clarissa Mendiola and Lehua Taitano, both of whom are currently based out of California, he argues that the nature of Chamorro identity and community is as fluid and vast as the Pacific Ocean itself.