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Dr. Eri Kitada (PhD, History) has just successfully defended her Dissertation, “Intimately Intertwined: Filipino Women in the U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations, 1903-1956” at the SAS Department of History. [Committee Members: Chie Ikeya and Jennifer Mittelstadt (co-chairs), Kornel Chang, and Eiichiro Azuma (University of Pennsylvania)]
“Global Asias, ways to build sustainable intellectual community and locally grounded social spaces”
Read more: Tokyo University Global Asian Studies Interviews Profs. Tamara Sears and Andrew Urban
Last year’s highly successful zoom film discussion and screening of the documentary “Abandoned: Japanese War Orphans in the Philippines and China was heralded in the newsletter of the Philippine Nikkeijin Legal Support Center, a Tokyo- and Manila-based non-profit organization. The event was organized by Eri Kitada (PhD Candidate in History) and the Cold War Asias Graduate Working Group and co-sponsored by Rutgers Global Asias, Rutgers Association of Philippine Students, and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.
Historic addition to curriculum reflects ongoing racial reckoning
Written by John Chadwick | SAS Senior Writer
Asians make up about 23 percent of the Rutgers student population. The students above participate in a Living Learning Community to enhance students’ knowledge of the diverse lived experiences of Asian Americans.
Jillian Cuzzolino knew the time was right to push for change at Rutgers University.
Read more: Rutgers Students Succeed in Quest for Asian American Minor
The Global Asias Grants Committee is pleased to announce the inaugural recipients of the Global Asias Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Grant for Spring 2022. The recipients and their advisors come from all three Rutgers campuses, across fields from Childhood Studies and Geography to History and Education with projects ranging from a podcast on Dotbusters to Global Indigeneity and Youth Movements in South Asia. Congratulations to Kiran, Smruthi, Eri and Rashmi!
- Briefings: Emerging Research from the Global Asias Working Groups
- Rutgers and NYU Receive Federal Grant for New Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity
- Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- Read: RU Global Asias responds in International Journal of Asian Studies