"The Center will hopefully enrich the experience of the entire university by contributing to an understanding of the long neglected history, rich cultural heritage, and present position of Asian Americans in our society."

-- from the Center Steering Committee Mission Statement, 1969

Director's Overview

Yale University Presents Highest Honor to UCLA Professor Don Nakanishi

Director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Will Retire

UCLA AASC Gift Giving Online

Learn more about the Center? Download the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Brochure (PDF)

UCLA AAS Center Co-Founder Morgan Chu Receives UCLA Medal

*NEW* Download CrossCurrents: Newmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

Influence of Asian American Voters Increasing in State, U.S. Elections: Awakening the New "Sleeping Giant"? Asian American Political Engagement (Download PDF)

UCLA Asian American Studies Center 2008-2009 Fellowships, Prizes, Scholarships, Internships & Research Grants

Amerasia Journal Index Search

Children of Atomic Bomb (beta)

University of California AAPI Policy Multi-Campus Research Program

American Community Survey

3 New Professors Join UCLA Asian American Studies Center Faculty Advisory Committe

Download the AREAA and UCLA AASC National Study on Asian American Homeownership (PDF)

Research Symposium: Impacts of Welfare Reform on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) - Download the Symposium

UCLA AASC: Latest Census Reports on Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans

2009 Statistical Portrait of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Other Pacific Islanders (2008, 2007, 2006)

Center for EthnoCommunications

APACDDC: Information for Empowerment - UCLA AASC's U.S. Census Information Center

UCLA AASC and NCAPACD: Just Released Census Estimates of Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin for States and Counties, 2000-2005

AASC List-Serv Mailing List Registration

35 Notable Accomplishments & Milestones for Asian American Studies at UCLA

Friday the 3rd of July, 2009

Untold Civil Rights Stories: Asian Americans Speak Out for Justice

New issue of UCLA's AAPI Nexus explores the other side of model minority myth with new Senior Editor

Download CrossCurrents: Newmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

UCLA Asian American Studies Center Celebrating 40 Years: Special Tribute to Don T. Nakanishi

Amerasia Journal: Call for Abstracts "Global Community Formations and Asian American Futures"

Amerasia Journal: Call for Abstracts "Transoceanic Flows: Pacific Islander Interventions across the American Empire" Publication Date Spring 2011

2009-10 UCLA Asian American Studies Center Grants, Fellowships, Scholarships, Internships and Prizes

UCLA Graduate and Predoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies, 2009-10

2009-10 I.A.C. Research Grants in Asian American Studies at UCLA

How do Asian Americans Create Places: UCLA Professor Kyeyoung Park and Amerasia Journal Present New Research on Asian American Communities in Los Angeles

UCLA's U.S.-China Media Brief Launches Website Featuring Experts, In-depth Policy Analysis, and Other Expanded Features (Download brief PDF)

News Release January 2009: "Beijing on Barack: China's Elite Students and Professors Look at Obama and Future U.S.-China Relations"

Call for Papers: AAPI nexus special issue on higher education and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

Word Travels:  Asian American Literature in China, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Singapore, and the U.S.

UCLA: 2009-10 Postdoctoral/Visiting Scholar Fellowship in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 Education

Call for Papers:  Amerasia Journal's Special Issue for 2010 on "Asian Australia & Asian America: Reconceptualizing Transnational Geographies"

UCLA AASC Releases 10th Edition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Directory for Los Angeles and Orange Counties

UCLA AASC Press: Amerasia Journal Publishes "Majority World": New Thinking on Post 9-11 Culture and Crisis

AASC Launches Website to Commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Dr. James N. Yamazaki and The Children of the Atomic Bomb

Walter and Shirley Wang Establish First Endowed Chair and Program on US-China Relations and Chinese American Studies

K. Patrick and Lily Okura Research Grants on Asian Pacific American Mental Health for 2008-2009

UCLA Publishes Wartime Edition of Amerasia Journal

UCLA's New National APA Political Almanac Lists Over 2,000 Asian Pacific American Elected and Appointed Officials Nationwide

The Other Indians: A Political and Cultural History of South Asians in America

Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama, Renowned Human Rights Activist, Wins Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for 2004

MORE NEWS...

UCLA STUDENTS: Become a Free Member of the Center's Graduate and Undergraduate Student Associates Program

Professors Keith Camacho and Lois Takahashi Selected for the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize

Professor Valerie Matsumoto Promoted to Full Professor

Lois Takahashi Promoted to Full Professor

Professor Vinit Mukhija Receives Tenure

Professor Thu-huong Nguyen-vo Gains Tenure

New Endowment for Chinese American Studies Established at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center

UCLA Receives Major Gift to Establish Endowment To Study Domestic Violence and Abuse in Asian American Communities

Asian American Studies DEPARTMENT: The Undergraduate and Graduate Academic Degrees Program

Professsor Victor Bascara Receives Tenure

Professor Mitch Chang Promoted to Full Professor

Professor Grace Hong Gains Tenure in Asian American Studies and Women's Studies

UCLA Asian American Studies Department Open Positions: Part-Time Summer 2008 Lecturers (Non-Senate)

Donors Fund UCLA Chair on Japanese American Internment: A reception celebrates the nation's first academic chair dedicated to the topic

Graduate Concentration in Asian American Studies: Available to all graduate students at UCLA

Faculty Diversity Initiative: A proposal developed by UCLA's four Ethnic Studies Centers

Lane Hirabayashi named as UCLA's first George and Sakaye Aratani Professor of the Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community

UCLA: New Faculty Member Purnima Mankekar

Dr. Keith Camacho Appointed to Faculty of the Department of Asian American Studies

UCLA Professor Marjorie Kagawa-Singer Promoted to Full Professor

Dr. Shu-mei Shih: Congratulations on the promotion to Full Professor

UCLA' s Asian American Studies Center Establishes Nation's First Endowed Chair Focusing on Japanese American Internment: Listen to the KQED radio program (click here - requires Real Player).