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2025 Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Fund

March 5, 2026October 23, 2025 By AAARI

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.

A National Landscape of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI): Exploring Historical Foundations and Current Dilemmas in Higher Education

March 21, 2025March 17, 2025 By Mike Hoa Nguyen, Caroline K. Hong, Linh An and Sau-fong Au

This presentation offers a national landscape of AANAPISIs, focusing on their history and influence in higher education, as well as current dilemmas in today’s political climate.

Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims

November 24, 2025April 29, 2022 By Mitra Rastegar

Portrayals of Muslims as the beneficiaries of liberal values have contributed to the racialization of Muslims as a risky population since the September 11 attacks. These discourses, which hold up some Muslims as worthy of tolerance or sympathy, reinforce an unstable good Muslim/bad Muslim binary where any Muslim might be moved from one side to the other. In Tolerance and Risk, Mitra Rastegar explores these discourses as a component of the racialization of Muslims—where Muslims are portrayed as a highly diverse population that nevertheless is seen to contain within it a threat that requires constant vigilance.