Faculty and Staff

A woman stands in front of a stage holding a white parchment paper that reads Anjélica Hernández-Cordero 2024 distinguished staff award nominee. Behind her is a stack of purple and gold balloons.
Annual Distinguished Staff Award Reception
February 28, 2024
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
A headshot photo of LaShawnDa smiling with her hands clasped together in front of a dark gray background
LaShawnDa Pittman Interviewed by USA Today about Black Grandparents Raising their Grandkids
December 28, 2023
AES Logo
AES Statement
October 27, 2023
Elmer Dixon Book
Author Elmer Dixon Presents Die Standing Book Release Event
October 12, 2023
Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
September 29, 2023
Prof. Connie So
Connie So interviewed by Fox 13 News about Asian Hate in the CID
September 25, 2023
Alfredo Arreguin
Alfredo Arreguín Ceremony Event
September 21, 2023
Prof. Connie So
Connie So Earns 2023 Outstanding Public Service Award
September 18, 2023
Prof. Devon Peña
Professor Devon G Peňa Panelist at Sixth Annual Conference on Native American Nutrition, Resurgence of Indigenous Foodways
September 13, 2023
Linh Nguyen Face and Flier
LEAP Connect Session
April 11, 2023
Jang Wook Huh Photo
Jang Wook Huh Awarded 2023 ACLS Fellowship
April 4, 2023
John Walter
AES Mourns the Loss of Professor John Walter
March 29, 2023
Picture of the Quad
New Faculty Spotlight for Race and Social Justice
March 9, 2023
Jang Wook Huh Photo
Jang Wook Huh Wins the 2022 Constance M. Rourke Prize
March 8, 2023
Peter Bancho Photo
The Significance of Filipino Storytelling and The Pacific Northwest
March 6, 2023
Juan Felipe Herrera Photo
Juan Felipe Herrera, Former AES Professor, Receives Frost Medal For Lifetime Achievement 
February 22, 2023
Lashawnda Pittman headshot
LaShawnDa Pittman Appointed The Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship In Western Civilization
January 24, 2023
Constitution Day
Beyond a Colorblind Constitution
October 13, 2022
La TaSha Levy
Constitution Day with Professor La TaSha Levy
October 6, 2022
Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
September 29, 2022
Institute for Citizens and Scholars
2022 Career Enhancement Fellowship: Alina Méndez
May 25, 2022
Humanities Washington
Monica Cortés Viharo receives Public Humanities Fellowship
May 5, 2022
Book Cover: Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation
Fordham University Press announces new anthology co-edited by Rick Bonus
April 26, 2022
2022-23 American Ethnic Studies Teaching Assistant Positions
April 4, 2022
Book Cover: The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora
March 22, 2022
Oliver Rollins
Questioning the Violent Brain
February 14, 2022
Health Affairs February 2022
New Article Co-Written by Rick Bonus on the Impacts of Colonialism and Racism on Filipinx American Health Inequities
February 10, 2022
Black History Month
A Message from the Chair
February 9, 2022
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
The Power of Asian/ American Cinema
February 9, 2022
cny dragon lion
Professor Connie So on the Lunar New Year KBCS Podcast
February 4, 2022
Publicity photo of Memphis Minnie
Sonnet Retman Wins Publication Award 
January 12, 2022
Bruce Harrell, Seattle’s mayor-elect, during his campaign.
Prof. Connie So Cited in the International Examiner
December 1, 2021
NG STAFF. SOURCE: NOAA
Small farms fight for centuries-old water rights in Colorado
November 15, 2021
Langston Hughes review, 2021-09-01, Vol.27 (2)
New Publication -- "Our Temples for Tomorrow": Langston Hughes and the Making of a Democratic Korea
November 8, 2021
Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and the Bracero Program
New publication -- Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and the Bracero Program
November 8, 2021
Accepting Applications: Assistant Teaching Professor
November 1, 2021
Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
October 18, 2021
Black faculty from UW Seattle and Tacoma
Profs. Alexes Harris and LaShawnDa Pittman Host the Black Faculty Collective Welcome Reception
October 18, 2021
Oliver Rollins
AES Welcomes Oliver Rollins
September 29, 2021
AES Chair Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
September 29, 2021
Book Cover: Black Intellectual Tradition
AFRAM Challenges Common Assumptions
September 28, 2021
American Quarterly September 2021
Jang Wook Huh's article, "The Harlem Renaissance in Translation: Socialism, Nostalgia, and the Multilingual Spaces of Diaspora," has been published in American Quarterly
September 27, 2021
photo collage: collection of works by College of Arts & Sciences faculty, students and alumni celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month
UW Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month
September 14, 2021