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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.
Monica Orillo’s graduate education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa served as a launching pad to her future foreign service career with the U.S. Department of State. Orillo, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, was a recipient of the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign…
Southeast Asia in Transition: Fall 2022 Webinar Series Talk Join us Wednesday, October 10th for the CSEAS webinar, “Discussing Development: Roads and Land.” In this segment of the Luce Southeast Asia in Transition Webinar Series, we explore the story of…
Join us for a virtual film screening and panel discussion of Kung Saan Man Tayo (Wherever We May Be) Poster Information for Virtual Event Kung Saan Man Tayo (Wherever We May Be) will be screened virtually via Vimeo from Friday,…
Webinar Information Please join us Wednesday October 21 at 12:00 pm for a webinar on The South China Sea: China, Southeast Asia & Maritime Security. This webinar is part of the Crossing Borders: International Affairs between China and Southeast Asia…
Annie Reynolds graduated from the Asian Studies program with an MA focusing on Southeast Asia, and continued on to complete a PhD in Asian Theatre here at UH Mānoa. Now the curator of the East-West Center Gallery, in this video she welcomes new students to the Asian Studies program, and talks about how the program helped shape her career trajectory.
A People’s History of the Pandemic: Global Households and Covid-19 in Asia Asian Studies Chair Cathryn Clayton and her team have been awarded a Rapid Response Grant on COVID-19 and the Social Sciences by the Social Science Research Council. The…
Webinar Information Please register in advance to receive Zoom details. Registration and more information. This webinar is a part of the Crossing Borders: International Affairs between China and Southeast Asia Fall 2020 Roundtable Series hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian…
Professor Patricio ‘Jojo’ Abinales and journalist and author Criselda Yabes discussed the 2017 siege of Marawi in the Philippines in this East-West Center online seminar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qClPQhDSuNA
Book Publication The Asian Studies Program is proud to announce the publication of Women Warriors in Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2020), edited by former Director of the Center for Philippine Studies, Vina Lanzona (Associate Professor of History, UH Manoa), and Frederik…