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The Asian Studies Program was incredible because most professors were undertaking their own research, passionate about their subject of study, and enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge with students. It felt fresh and profound at the same time. Inspiring!
I was able to delve deep and focus on the areas of Asian Studies that truly interested me, and therefore gained a much more thorough and developed understanding of my fields of interest, which are applicable to my current career path. Also, the professors are extremely helpful and want their students to succeed. They were very supportive both while I was at UH and after I graduated.
U.S. citizen or resident alien full-time graduate and undergraduate students combining modern foreign language training with area studies in any UHM degree programs are encouraged to apply for: 2024 Summer Fellowship (for East Asia and Southeast Asia only) $3,500 stipend plus…
The Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), UHM, is offering a scholarship for a UHM student to participate in the 76th Japan-America Student Conference (JASC), August 1 – August 3, 2024 (required orientation in Los Angeles) and August 3 – 23,…
UH Mānoa’s Asian Studies department is hiring a full-time, tenure track Assistant Professor position to begin Fall 2024, pending position clearance and availability of funds. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. The University of Hawai’i at Manoa (UHM) offers interdisciplinary…
Meet one of our first-year MAIA students, Elizabeth Yen Tzu Liew! What is your academic background? I graduated with a Bachelor’s of Art in Mass Communication with Double Majors in Journalism and Public Relations, from the Curtin University of Technology…
The School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) and the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) welcome proposals for papers for the 35th annual Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. The conference will be held…
The conferences are organized by exceptional student leaders elected by their peers at the end of the prior year’s conference. Uniquely student-run, the conferences provide a mix of academically intensive, culturally immersive, and cross-cultural social experiences designed to create international…
Congratulations to Asian Studies BA student Kyaw Hsan Hlaing! His latest article detailing new developments in the struggle for control of Rakhine State, Myanmar was just published in The Diplomat. Read it here!
Master’s students Monica Orillo (Asian Studies) and Elizabeth Yen Tzu Liew (Asian International Affairs) were selected to participate in the first-ever Honolulu Nuclear Policy Workshop last month. Read more about their experiences in UH News: https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/10/31/nuclear-policy-workshop-honolulu/
On Thursday, November 9, UH Mānoa Asian Studies Alumnus Dr. Anthony Medrano of Yale-NUS College will present his research, “Fish…pay no attention to political boundaries”: tilapia and travel in the making of today’s Indo-Pacific. This talk follows fish in a…
Congratulations to Dr. Patricio Abinales! His anthology of essays on Philippine politics, Presidents and Pests, Cosmopolitans and Communists, will be published by Ateneo de Manila University Press. Stay tuned for announcements about publication dates and celebrations!