Congratulations to Professor Kathleen S. Yep (Asian American Studies at Pitzer) for her promotion to full professor effective July 2014. Read the press release.
Category Archives: What’s New
Fall 2014 Courses
The Fall 2014 courses have been posted. Download a copy here.
If you would like to get more information about the courses we are offering in the fall 2014, please attend our Fall 2014 Course Info Session on Tuesday, April 15th at 4:15pm in Lincoln 1121, Pomona College. Some faculty will be there to answer questions you may have about their future courses.
Hung Cam Thai (2014): Published Book
Insufficient Funds: The Culture of Money in Low-Wage Transnational Families
Hung Cam Thai
Stanford University Press.
“Every year migrants across the globe send more than $500 billion to relatives in their home countries, and this circulation of money has important personal, cultural, and emotional implications for the immigrants and their family members alike. Insufficient Funds tells the story of how low-wage Vietnamese immigrants in the United States and their poor, non-migrant family members give, receive, and spend money.
Drawing on interviews and fieldwork with more than one hundred members of transnational families, Hung Cam Thai examines how and why immigrants, who largely earn low wages as hairdressers, cleaners, and other “invisible” workers, send home a substantial portion of their earnings, as well as spend lavishly on relatives during return trips. Extending beyond mere altruism, this spending is motivated by complex social obligations and the desire to gain self-worth despite their limited economic opportunities in the United States. At the same time, such remittances raise expectations for standards of living, producing a cascade effect that monetizes family relationships. Insufficient Funds powerfully illuminates these and other contradictions associated with money and its new meanings in an increasingly transnational world.”
Ming-Yuen S. Ma (2014): Book Award
Congratulations to Professor Ming-Yuen S. Ma! His 2012 book: Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video 
won the 2014 Best Edited Collection Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Read more about it here.
Spring 2014 Courses
The Spring 2014 courses are up. Download a copy here.
Job: Part-time visiting lecturer in Asian American Studies at Pomona College, Fall 2013
The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges invites applications for part-time, visiting lecturer positions to teach one course in Asian American Studies during the Fall 2013 semester. In addition to our “Contemporary Issues in Asian America,” we welcome applicants who can offer a social science oriented course or a special topics course which complements our curriculum, especially courses on Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian, mixed race, or mixed ethnicity Asian Americans. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or be ABD, and have some teaching experience.
The Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps) are liberal arts colleges located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. We value diversity, and actively encourage applications from women and members of historically underrepresented groups.
Please submit in PDF form a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, proposed course syllabus, course evaluations, and three references via email to Prof. Hung Cam Thai at hung.thai@pomona.edu.
Job: Part-time, Visiting Lecturer in Asian American Studies (Fall 2013)
The Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges invites applications for part-time, visiting lecturer positions to teach one course in Asian American Studies during the Fall 2013 semester. We welcome applicants who can offer a social-science oriented course on “South Asian Communities” or a special topics course which complements our curriculum, especially courses on Pacific Islander, Southeast Asian, mixed race, or mixed ethnicity Asian Americans. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or be ABD, and have some teaching experience.
The Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps) are liberal arts colleges located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. We value diversity, and actively encourage applications from women and members of historically underrepresented groups.
Please submit a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, proposed course syllabus, course evaluations, and three references via email to madeline.gosiaco@pomona.edu, followed by a hard copy of your application materials to:
Madeline Gosiaco
Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies
Claremont Colleges
Lincoln Building 1118
647 N. College Way
Claremont, CA 91711
Review of applications will begin March 1, 2013. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Ming-Yuen S. Ma (2012): Published book
Resolutions 3: Global Networks of Video.
Ming-Yuen S. Ma and Erika Suderburg, eds.
University of Minnesota Press.
“Resolutions 3 explores the wide-ranging implications of video art and video-based production in contemporary media culture. Intending to broaden, contest, and amplify the mediated space defined by its two predecessors—Resolution and Resolutions—the contributors to this volume investigate the ever-changing state of video’s deployment as examiner, tool, journal reportage, improvisation, witness, riff, leverage, and document.”
Spring 2013 ~ Activist/Artist in Residence: Denise Uyehara
2/13 – 3/9, 2013
Denise Uyehara: Memory and the Occupied Body
IDAAS Activist/Artist in Residence, Spring 2013
- Opening Performative Talk: Shedding Light on Memory & the Occupied Body.
February 13th, 2013
7:00 p.m., Benson Auditorium, Pitzer
- Community Workshops (limited space available!): To apply to participate, please fill out online form. Must attend all three sessions plus the closing show.
Three consecutive Saturdays – Feb. 16, Feb. 23, and Mar. 2
1:00-5:00 p.m.
- In-Class Workshops (ASAM187): Arts and Activism (SC) with Erin O’Brien as facilitator with students; four consecutive in-class workshops.
Feb. 14, 21, 28 and March 7: co-facilitated with Denise Uyehara, 2 hours and 50 minutes each.
- Closing/Showing: Culmination of the interdisciplinary performances developed by the participants in the community workshops and ASAM 187 class.
Saturday, March 9, daytime (time TBA) in Kallick Family Gallery at Pitzer College.
Get the details here.
Thank you to our co-sponsors: Pitzer College Campus Life Committee, Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona College Public Events Fund, Intercollegiate Women’s Studies, Intercollegiate Media Studies, Scripps Communities of Resources and Empowerment (SCORE), Scripps Asian American Student Union (AASU), Queer Resource Center and more.
Spring 2013 Courses
The Spring 2013 courses are up. Download a copy here.