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The Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (AAADS) Program, one of the programs under the Department of Ethnic Studies, is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary experiences of Asian-ancestry groups in local, national, and global contexts. Asian American is a pan-ethnic term designating a racialized population made up of various groups of Asian ancestry, and encompassing both the foreign-born and the U.S.-born.
Reflecting the collective strengths of our faculty, our curriculum offers students a deeper understanding of the histories and contemporary realities of the different ethnic groups that comprise the “Asian American” category. Through classroom-based and experiential learning, our students engage with critical issues such as labor, migration, health, representation and cultural production, education, religion, class, gender, generation, law, public policy, and social activism.
Recent News
Toraji Prize
The Asian American Research Center and the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies program welcomes applications and nominations for the Toraji Korean American Studies prize. This annual prize is for …
Krao Farini: Wonder and Tokenism as Colonial Propaganda
Join us for a poetry reading event this Thursday, November 16, at 5:00 PM in Dwinelle 370! This event features the incredible work of Nay Saysourinho. Sideshow performers were often …
Before They Take Us Away Screening
Join us for a screening of the film, Before They Take Us Away on October 24th, 5:00 PM, at 554 Social Sciences Building. The film screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani and featuring the film’s presenter and producer, Dr. Evelyn Nakano Glenn the film’s director, Antonia Grace Glenn, and members of the self-evacuee community, Don Kaneshige and Howard Yamamoto.
Block by Block: The Struggle to Bring Community College to San Francisco Chinatown
Join us for a screening of Block by Block: The Struggle to Bring Community College to San Francisco on October 12th, from 3:30 to 5:00 PM at 370 Dwinelle Hall! …
Paid Summer Internship at FAMSF
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) Summer Internship program is designed to be an introductory professional experience, typically for students, emerging professionals, and those just entering the workforce, …
IARU Summer Field Course: Borderland
Centering on the concept of “border-land” and the themes of migration, mobilities and immobilities that have emerged as among the most pressing 21st century challenges, that cut across 11 of …
Events
The Detours Symposium Series featuring Detours-Okinawa
Sponsors: Mellon Multivocal Humanities Funds for Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program, Asian American Research Center, Asian Pacific American Student Development, Center for Race and Gender, Department …
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AAADS Spring 2026 Luncheon
Are you interested in learning more about what the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (AAADS) Program has to offer? Come join us for a lunchtime gathering to meet students …
Public Defenders, ICE and Deportations: AAPIs in the crosshairs
Sponsors: Institute of Government Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Asian American Research Center, Center for Race and Gender How have aggressive, militarized ICE deportation tactics impacted the rights …
The Detours Symposium Series Featuring Detours-Palestine
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine (co-edited by Jenny Kelly (UCSC), Lila Sharif (Arizona State University), and Somdeep Sen (Rothskilde University)) is the next volume in Duke University Press’s Detours: Decolonial Guide series after the inaugural Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i. Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine showcases how Palestinians across Palestine and in the diaspora reshape forms of tourism to their homeland in order to lay claim to it in the midst of Israel’s settler-colonial project. This panel features the editors and some of the contributors to the Palestine volume and is the second in a five part symposium series.
Job Talks for the AAADS History Professorship
The AAADS Program would like to invite you to the following job talks, where four experts will present their research. Please find the relevant information for each talk below!
Academic Outsider with Victoria Reyes
Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, Asian American Research Center (AARC), Asian and Asian American Diaspora Studies Program (AAADS) About the Talk: Victoria Reyes presents her essential book, Academic Outsider, in this …
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