Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom
FAIN: AE-248013-16
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York (New York, NY 10007-1044)
Soniya Munshi (Project Director: August 2015 to October 2018)
A one-year professional and curricular development program in Asian American studies for fifteen community college faculty members.
The Center for Ethnic Studies at the City University of New York’s Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) proposes a 12-month program to expand the teaching of Asian American Studies in community college classrooms across humanities disciplines. This project will engage the local histories, cultures, and identities of diverse, new, and underrepresented Asian American communities in the New York City metropolitan area. The proposed project will begin with an 8-day Faculty Development Institute for participants to study and develop curricular materials for implementation in the classroom. The Institute will be followed by a monthly Colloquium in Asian American Studies (2016–2017) to highlight emergent interdisciplinary research, cultural production, and innovative pedagogy.
Media Coverage
(Media Coverage)
Publication: BMCC News
Date: 4/14/2016
Abstract: This news piece announced the NEH award and offered a detailed summary of our project, Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom.
URL: http://http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/news/news.jsp?id=12910
Associated Products
Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom (Web Resource)Title: Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom
Author: Soniya Munshi
Author: Jennifer Hayashida
Author: Caroline Hong
Author: Linta Varghese
Author: Keith Miyake
Abstract: Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom is a program to expand the teaching of Asian American Studies in community college classrooms across humanities disciplines. The program will begin with a Faculty Development Summer Institute for CUNY Community College Faculty and will be followed by a monthly public Colloquium in Asian American Studies at BMCC in the 2016-17 academic year.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
https://buildingaas.commons.gc.cuny.edu/Primary URL Description: This website contains a description of our project, schedule for the Summer Institute, reading list, and speaker bios/photos. Although some of the readings are housed in a restricted area, most of the materials that we are using for this project are publicly accessible.
Secondary URL:
https://buildingaas.commons.gc.cuny.edu/collaborative-teaching-resources/Secondary URL Description: This page of the website is devoted to collaborative teaching resources that may be useful for educators who want to teach in/about Asian American communities. The project organizers and participants will be working, over the course of the year, to collaboratively catalog texts and resources, along with teaching materials (e.g. syllabi, modules, assignments)-- all of these materials will be housed in a publicly accessible Google Drive folder (link on this page).