Faculty and Staff

La TaSha Levy
Constitution Day with Professor La TaSha Levy
(October 6, 2022)
Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
(September 29, 2022)
Institute for Citizens and Scholars
2022 Career Enhancement Fellowship: Alina Méndez
(May 25, 2022)
Humanities Washington
Monica Cortés Viharo receives Public Humanities Fellowship
(May 5, 2022)
Book Cover: Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation
Fordham University Press announces new anthology co-edited by Rick Bonus
(April 26, 2022)
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2022-23 American Ethnic Studies Teaching Assistant Positions
(April 4, 2022)
Book Cover: The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora
(March 22, 2022)
Oliver Rollins
Questioning the Violent Brain
(February 14, 2022)
Health Affairs February 2022
New Article Co-Written by Rick Bonus on the Impacts of Colonialism and Racism on Filipinx American Health Inequities
(February 10, 2022)
Black History Month
A Message from the Chair
(February 9, 2022)
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
The Power of Asian/ American Cinema
(February 9, 2022)
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Professor Connie So on the Lunar New Year KBCS Podcast
(February 4, 2022)
Publicity photo of Memphis Minnie
Sonnet Retman Wins Publication Award 
(January 12, 2022)
Bruce Harrell, Seattle’s mayor-elect, during his campaign.
Prof. Connie So Cited in the International Examiner
(December 1, 2021)
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Small farms fight for centuries-old water rights in Colorado
(November 15, 2021)
Langston Hughes review, 2021-09-01, Vol.27 (2)
New Publication -- "Our Temples for Tomorrow": Langston Hughes and the Making of a Democratic Korea
(November 8, 2021)
Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and the Bracero Program
New publication -- Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and the Bracero Program
(November 8, 2021)
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Accepting Applications: Assistant Teaching Professor
(November 1, 2021)
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Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
(October 18, 2021)
Black faculty from UW Seattle and Tacoma
Profs. Alexes Harris and LaShawnDa Pittman Host the Black Faculty Collective Welcome Reception
(October 18, 2021)
Oliver Rollins
AES Welcomes Oliver Rollins
(September 29, 2021)
AES Chair Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
(September 29, 2021)
Book Cover: Black Intellectual Tradition
AFRAM Challenges Common Assumptions
(September 28, 2021)
American Quarterly September 2021
Jang Wook Huh's article, "The Harlem Renaissance in Translation: Socialism, Nostalgia, and the Multilingual Spaces of Diaspora," has been published in American Quarterly
(September 27, 2021)
photo collage: collection of works by College of Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
UW Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month
(September 14, 2021)
American Council of Learned Societies
Thaomi Michelle Dinh Named as One of the New Emerging Voices Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies
(August 19, 2021)
Emancipation Day celebration in Austin, Texas, on June 19, 1900
An occasion for unapologetic Black joy, community connection, and reeducation’: LaTaSha Levy discusses Juneteenth
(June 23, 2021)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 
(June 3, 2021)
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Prof. Connie So and the Lunchbox Moment!
(June 2, 2021)
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Facing Race: Washington sees a surge in Asian activism
(May 19, 2021)
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Prof. Bonus comments on “Why it’s complicated to group Asians and Pacific Islanders.”
(May 4, 2021)
positions: asia critique, Volume 29, Issue 1
Prof. Rick Bonus has just published an essay in the journal, positions: asia critique, “Navigating the Ocean in the School: Pacific Islanders in the Midst of Empire, Schooling, and Indigeneity.”
(May 4, 2021)
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Prof. Oliver Rollins' new article on antiracism and neuroscience
(April 26, 2021)
Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, University of Michigan
Rick Bonus speaks on Pacific Islander student experiences and building community in university settings
(March 31, 2021)
South Seattle Emerald
Asian Americans Call For Solidarity With All People Of Color
(March 31, 2021)
Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies
Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, with Rick Bonus as editor-in-chief, launches its first issue! 
(March 11, 2021)
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AES Statement Against Anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander Violence
(March 3, 2021)
New NEH Grant Recipients
Jang Wook Huh Awarded NEH Fellowship, 2021-2022
(February 10, 2021)
Bugs & Beasts Before the Law Colloquium
Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky contributes to Bugs and Beasts Before the Law Colloquium
(December 22, 2020)
Rea Tajiri: History and Memory
A Rediscovered Photobook Depicts Japanese American Resettlement in Postwar Chicago
(December 7, 2020)
Humanities Washington
Dr. La TaSha Levy joins a special panel, "Law and Disorder: Police Violence and Race in America," sponsored by Humanities Washington
(December 1, 2020)
Setsuko’s Secret - Shirley Ann Higuchi
New Book Examines Multigenerational Trauma and Activism in a Japanese American Family
(December 1, 2020)
Journal of Korean Studies; October 2020
Prof. Jang Wook Huh has published an essay in the Journal of Korean Studies, “The Student’s Hand: Industrial Education and Racialized Labor in Early Korean Protestantism.”  
(November 17, 2020)
Assistant Professor LaShawnda Pittman
Black Voices: What the UW has gotten right
(November 2, 2020)
John Okada's No-No Boy
A Virtual Japanese American Pilgrimage Book Club on John Okada’s No-No Boy
(October 15, 2020)
LIASE Southeast Asia Symposium
Prof. Bonus gives keynote talk for the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment Southeast Asia Symposium at the University of Puget Sound.
(October 13, 2020)
Why Race Matters
Prof. La TaSha Levy to speak at Why Race Matters panel on the 2020 election
(October 8, 2020)
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Prof. Linh Nguyễn co-winner of a $1 million grant for Southeast Asian research and community engagement
(October 7, 2020)
Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Kyle Mitchell
The Bugs & Beasts Before the Law Colloquium at the Henry Art Gallery 
(September 30, 2020)
Book Cover - Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Poet and Essayist Cathy Park Hong in Conversation with AES’s Schleitwiler
(September 29, 2020)