Faculty and Staff

Repetitive images of Gum Saan to Golden Spike separated by a golden border between the book covers
Gum Saan to Golden Spike wins a Special Recognition Award
(October 15, 2024)
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Making Sense of This Political Moment - October 2024 Perspectives
(October 15, 2024)
Linh Thủy Nguyễn sits in front of an audience wearing a black face mask speaking about her book Displacing Kinship
Temple University Press Shares Prof. Linh Thủy Nguyễn's Recent Event and Honorable Mention
(October 14, 2024)
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NWSA's Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize Honorable Mention
(October 7, 2024)
Dept. Chair Rick Bonus stands in front of a window and brick wall arms crossed wearing glasses and a black button-down shirt
A Message from the Chair
(October 1, 2024)
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Diacritics Review, Refugee Critique: The Next Generation, in Linh Thủy Nguyễn’s Displacing Kinship
(September 30, 2024)
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Review in for Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
(September 11, 2024)
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Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 27
(August 23, 2024)
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UW Libraries in the Classroom: Co-Creating and Publishing Books in Class
(August 22, 2024)
Twelve headshot photos of individuals on a flier will be celebrated by Positively Filipino
Building Communities: A Tribute to Our Manongs and Manangs
(August 21, 2024)
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New Faculty Spotlight: Oliver Rollins
(June 28, 2024)
Vietnamese-American actress Kieu-Chinh on the set of John Irvin's Vietnam war film 'Hamburger Hill', where she is working as Vietnamese adviser, in the Philippine jungle south of Manila, 3rd November 1986. (Alex Bowie/Getty Images)
"Vietnam is more than just a war": How Kieu Chinh helped evolve the Hollywood War Machine Propaganda
(June 11, 2024)
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Prof. La TaSha Levy is Awarded Faculty of the Year
(June 6, 2024)
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Prof. LaShawnDa L. Pittman Awarded a 2024 ACLS Digitial Justice Seed Grant
(May 22, 2024)
At the bottom of the cover is an image of a mural of a side view of a woman's face with tree roots as her hair, a hummingbird, hands with cacti imprinted, a heart, and an active volcano with a window showing blue skies and clouds
Professor Rick Bonus returns as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS)
(May 22, 2024)
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AES Statement on Campus Protests and Civil Disobedience
(May 14, 2024)
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UW Announces 2024 Awards of Excellence Recipients
(May 13, 2024)
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Linh Thủy Nguyễn and Anh H Nguyen
(May 8, 2024)
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Dr. Devon G. Peña's Appointment to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1)
(April 17, 2024)
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Distinguished Staff Award
(April 10, 2024)
Two women sit next to each other in a gymnasium, one wearing a gray hat and button down shirt, and the other wearing a white t-shirt
AAPI Voter Turnout Involves Many Unseen Obstacles
(March 27, 2024)
An Asian woman wearing a sweater and glasses sits at a table with food items in front of her and her hand hovering over her smartphone laying on the table
Linh Thủy Nguyễn's Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
(March 13, 2024)
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Translating Race, Editing Poetry: Theory and Practice
(March 13, 2024)
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UN Commission on the Status of Women
(March 11, 2024)
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Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (EJI) Winter Newsletter
(February 29, 2024)
A woman stands in front of a stage holding a white parchment paper that reads Anjélica Hernández-Cordero 2024 distinguished staff award nominee. Behind her is a stack of purple and gold balloons.
Annual Distinguished Staff Award Reception
(February 28, 2024)
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Engaging with Ethnic Studies Librarians
(February 20, 2024)
A letter addressed to Dr. Rick Bonus, AES' Chair, from the OCA Greater Seattle Asian Pacific American Advocates
OCA Greater Seattle - Asian Pacific American Advocates Golden Circle Awards & Lunar New Year Celebration
(February 6, 2024)
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell pulls a string to reveal the new Year of the Dragon Forever stamp at the International District Community Center. There are five individuals standing stage right and three standing stage left. An enlarged image of the Year of the Dragon stamp center stage.
U.S. Postal Service unveils new Year of the Dragon Stamp
(February 5, 2024)
Centered on a stamp is a face of a dragon colored light gold, with twelve jagged white teeth, an orange nose, red eyes, tri-color horns with pink at the tip, light green in the middle, and red at the base. The stamp reads, "Lunar New Year USA" with a strikethrough the word "Forever". The year 2024 is noted at the bottom-right corner of the stamp.
Lunar New Year with Year of the Dragon Stamp
(January 26, 2024)
Tina Le, left, and Cooper Nguyen, right, take turns moving with the lion head at a Little Saigon grocery warehouse rented by the Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon & Lion Dance Association in December
Asian Americans in Seattle use Lunar New Year Traditions as connection to Heritage, Family
(January 18, 2024)
LaShawnDa, centered in the photo, is sitting on a couch wearing a gray shawl over a black shirt and is talking with an African American grandmother
LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Shared in Chicago Tribune Article
(January 16, 2024)
Light blue book cover with the title, "Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival". Elderly African American woman sitting on a red couch with a baby on her lap. Three African American grandchildren standing around her.
LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Reviewed on Fostering Families Today
(December 29, 2023)
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LaShawnDa Pittman Interviewed by USA Today about Black Grandparents Raising their Grandkids
(December 28, 2023)
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AES Statement
(October 27, 2023)
Elmer Dixon Book
Author Elmer Dixon Presents Die Standing Book Release Event
(October 12, 2023)
Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
(September 29, 2023)
Prof. Connie So
Connie So interviewed by Fox 13 News about Asian Hate in the CID
(September 25, 2023)
Alfredo Arreguin
Alfredo Arreguín Ceremony Event
(September 21, 2023)
Prof. Connie So
Connie So Earns 2023 Outstanding Public Service Award
(September 18, 2023)
Prof. Devon Peña
Professor Devon G Peňa Panelist at Sixth Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition, Resurgence of Indigenous Foodways
(September 13, 2023)
Linh Nguyen Face and Flier
LEAP Connect Session
(April 11, 2023)
Jang Wook Huh Photo
Jang Wook Huh Awarded 2023 ACLS Fellowship
(April 4, 2023)
John Walter
AES Mourns the Loss of Professor John Walter
(March 29, 2023)
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New Faculty Spotlight for Race and Social Justice
(March 9, 2023)
Jang Wook Huh Photo
Jang Wook Huh Wins the 2022 Constance M. Rourke Prize
(March 8, 2023)
Peter Bancho Photo
The Significance of Filipino Storytelling and The Pacific Northwest
(March 6, 2023)
Juan Felipe Herrera Photo
Juan Felipe Herrera, Former AES Professor, Receives Frost Medal For Lifetime Achievement 
(February 22, 2023)
Lashawnda Pittman headshot
LaShawnDa Pittman Appointed The Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship In Western Civilization
(January 24, 2023)
Constitution Day
Beyond a Colorblind Constitution
(October 13, 2022)