Make the Most of Your Membership, Get Involved AAAS welcomes and encourages the involvement of our community members and seeks to provide avenues for meaningful partnership and collaboration. Whether you come alongside AAAS as a section leader, board member, sponsor, exhibitor or volunteer, your time and efforts will always be valued. Learn More About AAAS Sections AAAS welcomes and encourages the involvement of our community members and seeks to provide avenues for meaningful partnership and collaboration. Whether you come alongside AAAS as a section leader, board member, sponsor, exhibitor or volunteer, your time and efforts will always be valued. Asian American Feminism Chair: Sasha Sabherwal, [email protected]; Ashanti Shih [email protected] The section on Asian American Feminisms serves as an intellectual and political space for scholars, students, staff, and community members to engage in explorations of Asian American Feminisms. Members of the section will sponsor informal discussions as well as formal panels, roundtables, and workshops at the AAAS annual conference to feature feminist scholarship and praxis within the academy and beyond. Contact Section Chair Asian Settler Colonialism Chair: Ryan Buyco ([email protected]) and Leah Kuragano ([email protected]) Our section is a network of activists, community members, and scholars, working broadly in the areas of Asian settler colonial critique and Indigenous-Asian relationalities/solidarities, who oppose the ongoing projects of settler colonialism across Turtle Island, Oceania, and beyond. To join the listserv and receive periodic announcements from the section, join here: https://groups.google.com/g/asian-settler-colonialism OR email Leah Kuragano ([email protected]) Contact Section Chair CHALIS Chair: Paul Lai and Eric Hung Because Asian American materials can be marginalized, overlooked, and subsumed under more general collections in libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, the access to and retrieval of relevant materials can often prove daunting. In order to help make such collections more accessible, the Cultural Heritage, Archives, Library and Information Science (CHALIS) aims to increase dialogue across professions, institutions, and disciplines as a way to empower communities, scholars, and cultural workers in the field of Asian American Studies. Contact Section Chair Comfort Women Chair: Jinah Kim This section was created in order to discuss and share reasons behind the creation of the resolution to AAAS, to collect feedback on the resolution, to recruit more AAAS members to help strategize in making sure our resolution will be adopted by AAAS, and to create a community of Asian American Studies scholars who are interested in preserving and promoting the history of “Comfort Women.” Contact Section Chair Community College Chair: Co-chairs: Chesa Caparas ([email protected]) and Mae Lee ([email protected]) Community colleges are a pivotal institutional node for Asian American studies, but they are often overlooked in considerations of ethnic studies and education. This Section offers a space to discuss the current landscape of Asian American Studies at the community college level and explore how these institutions sustain public access to AAS. Contact Section Chair Critical Adoption Studies Chair: Kim Park Nelson Critical Adoption Studies is an emergent area of study within and beyond Asian American Studies that underlines key questions at the core of Asian America Studies scholarship. Our work is concerned with the ways power and knowledge operate to define notions of identity, race, class, gender, sexuality, family, and nation as they relate to transnational adoption from Asia. Contact Section Chair View All Sections
Asian American Feminism Chair: Sasha Sabherwal, [email protected]; Ashanti Shih [email protected] The section on Asian American Feminisms serves as an intellectual and political space for scholars, students, staff, and community members to engage in explorations of Asian American Feminisms. Members of the section will sponsor informal discussions as well as formal panels, roundtables, and workshops at the AAAS annual conference to feature feminist scholarship and praxis within the academy and beyond. Contact Section Chair
Asian Settler Colonialism Chair: Ryan Buyco ([email protected]) and Leah Kuragano ([email protected]) Our section is a network of activists, community members, and scholars, working broadly in the areas of Asian settler colonial critique and Indigenous-Asian relationalities/solidarities, who oppose the ongoing projects of settler colonialism across Turtle Island, Oceania, and beyond. To join the listserv and receive periodic announcements from the section, join here: https://groups.google.com/g/asian-settler-colonialism OR email Leah Kuragano ([email protected]) Contact Section Chair
CHALIS Chair: Paul Lai and Eric Hung Because Asian American materials can be marginalized, overlooked, and subsumed under more general collections in libraries, archives, museums, and galleries, the access to and retrieval of relevant materials can often prove daunting. In order to help make such collections more accessible, the Cultural Heritage, Archives, Library and Information Science (CHALIS) aims to increase dialogue across professions, institutions, and disciplines as a way to empower communities, scholars, and cultural workers in the field of Asian American Studies. Contact Section Chair
Comfort Women Chair: Jinah Kim This section was created in order to discuss and share reasons behind the creation of the resolution to AAAS, to collect feedback on the resolution, to recruit more AAAS members to help strategize in making sure our resolution will be adopted by AAAS, and to create a community of Asian American Studies scholars who are interested in preserving and promoting the history of “Comfort Women.” Contact Section Chair
Community College Chair: Co-chairs: Chesa Caparas ([email protected]) and Mae Lee ([email protected]) Community colleges are a pivotal institutional node for Asian American studies, but they are often overlooked in considerations of ethnic studies and education. This Section offers a space to discuss the current landscape of Asian American Studies at the community college level and explore how these institutions sustain public access to AAS. Contact Section Chair
Critical Adoption Studies Chair: Kim Park Nelson Critical Adoption Studies is an emergent area of study within and beyond Asian American Studies that underlines key questions at the core of Asian America Studies scholarship. Our work is concerned with the ways power and knowledge operate to define notions of identity, race, class, gender, sexuality, family, and nation as they relate to transnational adoption from Asia. Contact Section Chair
