TA positions available in the Asian American Studies Department

The Department of Asian American Studies is accepting teaching assistant applications for its lower division courses for the 2019-2020 academic year.

To apply, please submit your letter of interest, CV, copies of 4 most recent ESCIs and student comments (if you have any). Please also include a letter of recommendation from one of your professors. Send to Cora Danielson or bring it to HSSB 5044 (tower side). More information found here.

Positions are currently available in the following courses:

• Fall 19/Spring 2020: AsAm 1, Intro to Asian American History Historical survey of Asian Americans in the United States from 1850 to the present.
• Fall 2019: AsAm 5, Intro to Asian American Literature Selected major themes in literary texts from Asian American communities. ​Topics in: dislocation/relocation; finding/inventing a usable past; poetics/politics in language; identities/ethnicities
• Winter 2020: AsAm 4, Intro to Asian American Pop Culture A historical survey of how Asians and Asian Americans have been represented in American popular culture, with an analytical focus on the social and symbolic contents of examples in journalism, literature, theater, and television.
• Winter 2020: AsAm 7, Globalization, Gender, and Social Inequality in Asian America
• Winter 2020: AsAm 9, Race and Resistance: Asian American, Black, Chicana/o, and Indigenous Freedom Struggles Survey of contemporary social scientific theories and empirical studies of globalization through the experiences of Asian Americans. Major themes include global capitalism, labor, colonialism, modernity, pop culture, diaspora, race, gender, sexuality and cultural difference. Studies US race-based freedom struggles, emphasizing the 1960s-70s, within the context of global decolonization and the study of the "long" movement from the 1930s to the present. Examines how social movements are studied historically.

Information regarding all Asian American Studies courses available here.