In the Press

Flyer for Passage to Seattle Event with three book covers centered each showing an illustration of a number of individuals
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)
Dr. Peña and two other individuals stand in front of market products smiling
Dr. Peña's Interview about The San Luis Peoples Market
(October 28, 2024)
The Undocumented Americans title centered at the top with a red flower in the center middle lying on top of government documents
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)
An Asian woman wearing a sweater and glasses sits at a table with food items in front of her and her hand hovering over her smartphone laying on the table
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)
An Asian woman wearing a sweater and glasses sits at a table with food items in front of her and her hand hovering over her smartphone laying on the table
Diacritics Review, Refugee Critique: The Next Generation, in Linh Thủy Nguyễn’s Displacing Kinship
(September 30, 2024)
Twelve headshot photos of individuals with various logos of government and organization entities
Filipino Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) Announces 2024 Immersion Delegates
(September 18, 2024)
An Asian woman wearing a sweater and glasses sits at a table with food items in front of her and her hand hovering over her smartphone laying on the table
Review in for Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
(September 11, 2024)
An illustration of a Filipino meal and Asian fruit
Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 27
(August 23, 2024)
An illustrated book cover with six individuals smiling with the title Knowledge Kapamilya Issue 01 centered
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)
Oliver looks on smiling wearing a beige jacket over a blue button-down shirt
New Faculty Spotlight: Oliver Rollins
(June 28, 2024)
Illustrated cover of a book with six Filipino individuals smiling with one holding a icing spatula, another with an animal curled up on her right shoulder, another with a traditional bowl on her left shoulder, and one holding what appears to be a shield
Knowledge Kapamilya 2024
(June 24, 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)
A woman stands smiling wearing a brown jacket and a purse slung over her left shoulder
Wen Eckelberg selected as scholar for China’s Yenching Academy
(May 30, 2024)
A headshot photo of LaShawnDa smiling with her hands clasped together in front of a dark gray background
Prof. LaShawnDa L. Pittman Awarded a 2024 ACLS Digitial Justice Seed Grant
(May 22, 2024)
At the bottom of the cover is an image of a mural of a side view of a woman's face with tree roots as her hair, a hummingbird, hands with cacti imprinted, a heart, and an active volcano with a window showing blue skies and clouds
Professor Rick Bonus returns as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS)
(May 22, 2024)
On a black background in white text reads Mellon Foundation with its logo to the left
AES Receives Mellon Foundation's Affirming Multivocal Humanities Grant
(May 20, 2024)
Two women standing next to each other, one holds a book
Linh Thủy Nguyễn and Anh H Nguyen
(May 8, 2024)
An individual smiles in front of a gray background wearing a burgundy scarf and black quarter-zipper shirt
Dr. Devon G. Peña's Appointment to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1)
(April 17, 2024)
Two women sit next to each other in a gymnasium, one wearing a gray hat and button down shirt, and the other wearing a white t-shirt
AAPI Voter Turnout Involves Many Unseen Obstacles
(March 27, 2024)
Several performers hold up a lion and dragon in front of the Wing Luke Museum
Lunar New Year Becomes a Recognized Holiday in Washington State
(March 15, 2024)
An Asian woman wearing a sweater and glasses sits at a table with food items in front of her and her hand hovering over her smartphone laying on the table
Linh Thủy Nguyễn's Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
(March 13, 2024)
A headshot photo of LaShawnDa smiling with her hands clasped together in front of a dark gray background
Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (EJI) Winter Newsletter
(February 29, 2024)
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Engaging with Ethnic Studies Librarians
(February 20, 2024)
Several performers hold up a lion and dragon in front of the Wing Luke Museum
Lunar New Year Celebrations and the Push to Make it a Washington State Holiday
(February 12, 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)
Han Eckelberg wearing a multi-color long-sleeve shirt, crouching in front of a group of children speaking to them
Seattle Sounders FC Features Han Eckelberg
(January 10, 2024)
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Spotlight on Tagalog, in the Northwest Asian Weekly
(January 8, 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)
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)
Prof. Connie So
Connie So Earns 2023 Outstanding Public Service Award
(September 18, 2023)
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In A Yellow Tone Evolves
(March 16, 2023)
Bruce Lee Ascending 2022
OUGL & AES Celebrate 'Bruce Lee Ascending' 
(October 20, 2022)
Constitution Day
Beyond a Colorblind Constitution
(October 13, 2022)
Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
(September 29, 2022)
Book Cover: Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation
Fordham University Press announces new anthology co-edited by Rick Bonus
(April 26, 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)
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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)