Departmental Information
Program Director
Prof. Claudio Lomnitz
422 Hamilton
854-0195
Associate Director
Prof. Pablo Piccato
325 Fayerweather
854-3725
Assistant Director
Leon James Bynum
424 Fayerweather
854-0510
Undergraduate Director
Prof. Frances Negrón-Muntaner
416 Schermerhorn
854-0507
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
423 Hamilton
854-0507
Interdepartmental Committee on Asian American Studies
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Paul Anderer
East Asian Languages and Cultures
414 Kent; 854-1525
Charles Armstrong
History
930 IAB; 854-1721
Kimberlé Crenshaw
School of Law
8E18 Greene; 854-3049
E. Valentine Daniel
Anthropology
957 Schermerhorn Extension; 854-7764
Carol N. Gluck
History
912 IAB; 854-2591
Wen Jin
English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy; 854-4707
Adam McKeown
History
516 Fayerweather; 854-9121
Mae Ngai
History
611 Fayerweather; 854-4646
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Gary Y. Okihiro
International and Public Affairs
623 Fayerweather; 854-3662
Gregory Pflugfelder
East Asian Languages and Cultures
408 Kent Hall; 854-5035
Bruce Robbins
English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy; 854-6463
Tazuko Shibusawa
School of Social Work
601 McVickar; 854-5010
Sandhya Shukla
Anthropology
452 Schermerhorn; 854-4552
Gayatri Spivak
English and Comparative Literature
605 Philosophy; 854-6465
Gauri Viswanathan
English and Comparative Literature
408J Philosophy; 854-5440
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The Asian American Studies Program offers courses, advances research and scholarship,
and sponsors activities on the experiences of Asians in the United States.
Columbia’s Asian American Studies Program gained institutionalization in the fall of 1998 and is organized as an interdisciplinary field involving the humanities and social sciences. It conceives of “Asian America” in broad terms. “Asian Americans” comprise diverse peoples from West Asia to South Asia and Southeast Asia to East Asia, with widely differing histories and societies, languages and cultures, who have also shared a range of similar experiences.
The program thus requires students to study Asian Americans comparatively as well as across the disciplines. And as part of an overall exploration of Asian American experiences, it asks students to understand the articulations of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation.
The program’s curriculum builds upon the foundational course ASAM W1010 Introduction to Asian American studies, which surveys the methodologies and theories central to the field of study, offers a critical analysis of key concepts and texts, and provides a historical overview of Asians in the Americas. Asian American subjectivities are explored in introductory courses on Asian American literatures and cultures and on diasporic and transnational communities and social formations. Advanced courses on gender and sexuality, Asian American women, race and art, Asian American youth cultures, and Asian Americans and the law allow students to deepen their understanding of Asian Americans and their social locations.
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