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
Critical Mixed Race Studies Chair: Anna Storti The mission of the Critical Mixed Race Studies section of the AAAS is to emphasize how racial mixing is part of the Asian/American diaspora, history, community, and culture; and to bring visibility to the mixed race Asian American/Pacific Islander communities in our research, conferences, organizations, and creative projects. Section members interested in critical analyses of myriad topics that critique and broaden the field of Asian American Studies by pushing the boundaries between research, digital media, art, and advocacy. Contact Section Chair
Critical SWANA Diaspora Studies Chair: Hady Elrafei The Critical SWANA Diaspora Studies section is a collective of scholars who research histories of colonialism, imperialism, racism, migration, capitalism, and culture through interdisciplinary and transregional perspectives across South West Asian North African (SWANA) diasporas. Contact Section Chair
Disability Studies Chair: Ajitpaul Mangat and Jim Lee The field of disability studies has grown over the past two decades to take the intersection of race with disability more seriously. The disability studies section of the Association for Asian American Studies exists to allow for the development of an Asian American Disability Politics. It offers scholars working at the intersection of Asian American and disability studies another resource – offering space, opportunities for dialogue, and supports for publication – to assist their research. Contact Section Chair
East of California Chair: Jason Oliver Chang East of California is a network of Asian Americanists focused on institutionalizing Asian American Studies outside California, developing regional-specific activities to support research, publications, and teaching at individual and programmatic levels. Contact Section Chair
Filipinx and Filipinx American Studies Chair: Rick Bonus The purpose of the Filipinx and Filipinx American Studies section is to promote all kinds of scholarship, teaching, and service relevant to our fields in both their local and transnational contexts. Our section seeks to provide coherence among our scholars, teachers, and activists in the U.S. and elsewhere so our activities are enabled, organized, celebrated, and encouraged collaboratively and collectively. Contact Section Chair
History Chair: Lily Anne Welty Tamai ([email protected]), Ian Shin ([email protected]) The History section convenes scholars trained in history or employing historical methods to foster discussions and organization regarding research projects, teaching approaches, and professional strategies and programs. The section maintains an online directory to facilitate the development of panels for AAAS and other history conferences, and a newsletter to share information about publication and presentation opportunities. Contact Section Chair
