Opportunities

Rick Lee Prize in Asian American/Diaspora Studies

The Rick Lee Prize in Asian American Studies Rutgers University

Global Asias and the American Studies Department invites submissions for the Rick Lee Paper and Project Prize in Asian American Studies. Named after Rick Lee, a longtime supporter of Asian American Studies at Rutgers, this competition will award $150 to a Rutgers undergraduate student. Papers or class projects, such as websites, creative works, visual and digital projects, from all departments and disciplines are eligible for the prize.

Last year’s recipients:

Inaugural Recipients of The Rick Lee Prize for Asian American Studies 

May 2023 

  1. Charis Shin 

Project Title: You Are Your Father’s Daughter (Creative Writing Honors Thesis)

  1. Noa Gabrielle Navarro DeOcampo 

Project Title: Invisible Stories: Family Narratives, Colonial Legacies & The Haunted Autobiographical Selves of Filipino Americans (Interdisciplinary Honors Thesis)

  1. Michelle Brown 

Project Title: The Usage of “Yellow People” to Describe Chinese People: A Podcast

  1. Asian American Experience Students (representative: Katy Ly; instructor: Dr. Viola Lasmana) 

Project Title: Asian American Experience Website for Keywords and Zines

https: //sites.google.com/scarletmail.rutgers.edu/asianamericanexperience2023/home

Colleen Tonra

Project Title: “Mother”: An Asian American Keyword

Valarie Samson

Project Title: “Home”: An Asian American Keyword

Katy Ly

Project Title: “Archive”: An Asian American Keyword