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Asian Literature, Religion, & Culture Ph.D. alumnus, Dexter Thomas, received a ACLS (American Council of Learned Societies) Emerging Voices Fellowship as a Humanities Council Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. Dexter received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 2020, the title of his dissertation is: "Niggers and Japs: Right-wing...
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Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
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Students throughout the university can now minor in Global Asia Studies, with faculty approving the new area of study in May.
/news/new-global-asia-minor-expands-study-options-undergradsCongratulations to the following students who received awards from the Department of Asian Studies in 2020-2021!Two awards from the new Diversity Research Grants Program in support of Asian Studies-related undergraduate research went to Christopher Betancourt and Michelle KimThe Japanese Language Program Robert Sukle Award for three years of...
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Long before women revolutionaries like Joan of Arc and Catherine of Aragon, two high-born Vietnamese sisters rallied their people in order to fight against oppression. Known simply as the Trung sisters, Trung Trac and Trung Nhi raised an army and went to battle in order to protect their ancestral homeland in the year 43 AD.In the 2,000 years...
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Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state and the...
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“During this challenging year, our faculty have demonstrated exemplary caring and commitment to our students."
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Will Guzman is a chemistry and Asian studies major.
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Writer, activist and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola will discuss her upcoming book, Travelling while Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move, as part of Global Cornell’s Race and Racism Across Borders webinar on April 12.
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Violence against persons self- and/or other-identified as "Asian" has a regrettably and painfully deep history in the U.S., stretching across centuries. During the last twelve months, the intersection between the Covid-19 pandemic and a variety of anti-"foreign"/ anti-"outsider" discourses circulating nationally and globally have further...
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