# Asian American Studies Program
**Source**: https://asianamericanstudies.cornell.edu/
**Parent**: https://abroad.globallearning.cornell.edu/go-abroad/returning-home
At the time of its founding in 1987, the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University was the first such program in the Ivy League. Today the program has in the humanities and social sciences in a variety of departments and colleges. With a in Asian American studies, you’ll examine the histories and experiences, identities, social and community formations, politics and contemporary concerns of people of Asian ancestry in the U.S. and other parts of the Americas.
### Explore AASP
[Undergraduate Program](/undergraduate)
[AASP Online Library Catalog](https://www.librarycat.org/lib/cornellaasp)
### Upcoming Events
Mar
11
Wednesday
12:00 PM
## [AASP and A3C BeComing Lunch Series with Margalo](https://events.cornell.edu/event/aasp-and-a3c-becoming-lunch-series-with-margalo)
429 Rockefeller Hall
Mar
18
Wednesday
12:00 PM
## [AASP Wednesday Lunch Series with Kristin Roebuck](https://events.cornell.edu/event/aasp-wednesday-lunch-series-with-kristin-roebuck)
Rockefeller Hall
429
Mar
25
Wednesday
12:00 PM
## [AASP and A3C BeComing Lunch Series with Jaimie Chen](https://events.cornell.edu/event/aasp-and-a3c-becoming-lunch-series-with-jaimie-chen)
429 Rockefeller Hall
Apr
08
Wednesday
12:00 PM
## [AASP and A3C BeComing Lunch Series with Jonathan Lam](https://events.cornell.edu/event/copy-of-aasp-and-a3c-becoming-lunch-series-with-jonathan-lam)
429 Rockefeller Hall
[See all events](https://events.cornell.edu/search?search=aaspcal)
> “The AAS minor has provided me with an academic framework to better grapple with my own Desi identity. I am grateful that I have had the opportunity to learn about the rich history of Asian Americans in the U.S., racial solidarity, and grassroot resistance against colonial power structures. I know that the perspectives and concepts I have come across in my Asian American studies classes will continue to inform how I see and interact with the world around me.”
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> — Alyssa Kamath ‘23
## Recent Stories
### [Professor, Author Sandhya Shukla ’88 Discusses ‘Cross-Culturalism’ in Harlem, New York](https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/10/professor-author-sandhya-shukla-88-discusses-cross-culturalism-in-harlem-new-york)
10/25/2025
Sandhya Shukla ’88, a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia, presented her ideas of “Cross-Culturalism” on Thursday afternoon in Goldwin Smith Hall. \
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In the talk, she examined Harlem, New York and other heterogeneous communities to study how different cultures interact.
### [AASP Director Derek Chang on how Christian America welcomed its first Chinese immigrants](https://religionnews.com/2025/09/19/michael-luos-strangers-in-the-land-captures-the-faith-response-to-immigrants-a-century-ago/)
9/19/2025
“Strangers in the Land,” the recently published book by New Yorker Editor Michael Luo, chronicles the journey of Chinese immigrants to the American West, and then eastward across the country. Perhaps inevitably, it is also an account of the violence and bigotry directed against them, which only became more intense as the boom years of the Western Gold Rush gave way to the economic downturn that followed the Civil War.\
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Christian clergy cast their own shadow over Luo’s narrative. Faith leaders — almost all of them white Protestants — were instrumental in shaping, not only the experience of the immigrant, but also the communities that sometimes welcomed, sometimes attacked them.
### [In new book, Farred breaks down his long-time sports fandoms](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/08/new-book-farred-breaks-down-his-long-time-sports-fandoms)
8/18/2025
Grant Farred, a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, chronicles his love for both a distant and a local sports team in “A Sports Odyssey: My Ithaca Journal,” published July 25 by Temple University Press.
### [Student Spotlight: Class of 2025](/news/student-spotlight-class-2025)
5/23/2025
Congratulations to our Class of 2025 Asian American Studies graduates!
### ['I've been inspired to enter a public defense career to represent tenants'](/news/ive-been-inspired-enter-public-defense-career-represent-tenants)
5/15/2025
Ameya Kamani is a government major.
### [Inclusive Excellence Podcast: Embrace discomfort and do it anyway](https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/11/inclusive-excellence-podcast-embrace-discomfort-and-do-it-anyway)
11/26/2024
Alexis Boyce, Asian American Studies Program manager and co-chair of the Staff Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Committee, discusses the group’s ongoing efforts to address staff concerns and drive meaningful change.
### [A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network](/news/announces-membership-mla-strategic-partnership-network)
10/08/2024
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
### [New Faculty: Adhy Kim](/news/new-faculty-adhy-kim)
9/06/2024
Adhy Kim, Literatures in English, Asian American Studies
## Faculty Publication Spotlight
- Christine Bacareza Balance ***[Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America](https://www.dukeupress.edu/tropical-renditions/)***
- Derek Chang **[*Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century*](http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14719.html)**
- Viranjini Munasinghe ***[Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801486197/callaloo-or-tossed-salad/)***
- Sunn Shelley Wong***[The Ca](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/cambridge-history-asian-american-literature?format=HB)******[mbridge History of Asian American Literature](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/cambridge-history-asian-american-literature?format=HB)***