Faculty and Staff

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Professor Pittman wins Faculty Member of the Year Award
May 8, 2025
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Survey Findings on Perceptions of Asian Americans in the US are 'Upsetting'
May 7, 2025
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Southeast Asian Studies Book Review of Professor Nguyễn's Displacing Kinship
April 30, 2025
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An Ancient Irrigation System May Help Farmers Face Climate Change
April 24, 2025
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Cambia Health Foundation Grant Awarded to Catholic Community Services of Western Washington
April 3, 2025
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March to Remember Chinese Expulsion in Seattle Highlights Immigrants
February 26, 2025
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Seattle holds Day of Remembrance Rally 83 Years after Executive Order 9066 was Signed
February 20, 2025
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TIE Talks with Linh Thủy Nguyễn
February 19, 2025
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Professor Pittman's Articles in Generations Journal
February 5, 2025
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Highline 8th Graders Visit AES 
December 16, 2024
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Transnational Feminist Responses to Violence: Building Movements for Genuine Security
December 6, 2024
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Passage to Seattle: Reenacting, Remembering, Retelling
November 21, 2024
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Freedom Choices: How Black Mothers Living in Jim Crow Protected Their Children from Anti-Black Racism and Prepared Them for Success
November 1, 2024
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Population Health Initiative Tier 1 Pilot Research Grant Awarded to Dr. LaShawnDa Pittman
October 31, 2024
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Dr. Peña's Interview about The San Luis Peoples Market
October 28, 2024
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Gum Saan to Golden Spike wins a Special Recognition Award
October 15, 2024
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Making Sense of This Political Moment - October 2024 Perspectives
October 15, 2024
Linh Thủy Nguyễn sits in front of an audience wearing a black face mask speaking about her book Displacing Kinship
Temple University Press Shares Prof. Linh Thủy Nguyễn's Recent Event and Honorable Mention
October 14, 2024
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NWSA's Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize Honorable Mention
October 7, 2024
Dept. Chair Rick Bonus stands in front of a window and brick wall arms crossed wearing glasses and a black button-down shirt
A Message from the Chair
October 1, 2024
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Diacritics Review, Refugee Critique: The Next Generation, in Linh Thủy Nguyễn’s Displacing Kinship
September 30, 2024
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Review in for Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
September 11, 2024
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Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 27
August 23, 2024
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UW Libraries in the Classroom: Co-Creating and Publishing Books in Class
August 22, 2024
Twelve headshot photos of individuals on a flier will be celebrated by Positively Filipino
Building Communities: A Tribute to Our Manongs and Manangs
August 21, 2024
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New Faculty Spotlight: Oliver Rollins
June 28, 2024
Vietnamese-American actress Kieu-Chinh on the set of John Irvin's Vietnam war film 'Hamburger Hill', where she is working as Vietnamese adviser, in the Philippine jungle south of Manila, 3rd November 1986. (Alex Bowie/Getty Images)
"Vietnam is more than just a war": How Kieu Chinh helped evolve the Hollywood War Machine Propaganda
June 11, 2024
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Prof. La TaSha Levy is Awarded Faculty of the Year
June 6, 2024
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Prof. LaShawnDa L. Pittman Awarded a 2024 ACLS Digitial Justice Seed Grant
May 22, 2024
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Professor Rick Bonus returns as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS)
May 22, 2024
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AES Statement on Campus Protests and Civil Disobedience
May 14, 2024
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UW Announces 2024 Awards of Excellence Recipients
May 13, 2024
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Linh Thủy Nguyễn and Anh H Nguyen
May 8, 2024
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Dr. Devon G. Peña's Appointment to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1)
April 17, 2024
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Distinguished Staff Award
April 10, 2024
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AAPI Voter Turnout Involves Many Unseen Obstacles
March 27, 2024
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Linh Thủy Nguyễn's Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
March 13, 2024
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Translating Race, Editing Poetry: Theory and Practice
March 13, 2024
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UN Commission on the Status of Women
March 11, 2024
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Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (EJI) Winter Newsletter
February 29, 2024
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Annual Distinguished Staff Award Reception
February 28, 2024
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Engaging with Ethnic Studies Librarians
February 20, 2024
A letter addressed to Dr. Rick Bonus, AES' Chair, from the OCA Greater Seattle Asian Pacific American Advocates
OCA Greater Seattle - Asian Pacific American Advocates Golden Circle Awards & Lunar New Year Celebration
February 6, 2024
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell pulls a string to reveal the new Year of the Dragon Forever stamp at the International District Community Center. There are five individuals standing stage right and three standing stage left. An enlarged image of the Year of the Dragon stamp center stage.
U.S. Postal Service unveils new Year of the Dragon Stamp
February 5, 2024
Centered on a stamp is a face of a dragon colored light gold, with twelve jagged white teeth, an orange nose, red eyes, tri-color horns with pink at the tip, light green in the middle, and red at the base. The stamp reads, "Lunar New Year USA" with a strikethrough the word "Forever". The year 2024 is noted at the bottom-right corner of the stamp.
Lunar New Year with Year of the Dragon Stamp
January 26, 2024
Tina Le, left, and Cooper Nguyen, right, take turns moving with the lion head at a Little Saigon grocery warehouse rented by the Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon & Lion Dance Association in December
Asian Americans in Seattle use Lunar New Year Traditions as connection to Heritage, Family
January 18, 2024
LaShawnDa, centered in the photo, is sitting on a couch wearing a gray shawl over a black shirt and is talking with an African American grandmother
LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Shared in Chicago Tribune Article
January 16, 2024
Light blue book cover with the title, "Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival". Elderly African American woman sitting on a red couch with a baby on her lap. Three African American grandchildren standing around her.
LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Reviewed on Fostering Families Today
December 29, 2023
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LaShawnDa Pittman Interviewed by USA Today about Black Grandparents Raising their Grandkids
December 28, 2023
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AES Statement
October 27, 2023