Publications and Awards
APA Studies professors and staff have been very active over the last year, earning accolades and reshaping the field of Asian American Studies.
JOHN LEE (CENTER)ACCEPTING HIS AWARD FROM PRESIDENT
SIMON (LEFT) AND PROVOST KIM WILCOX (RIGHT).
John Lee received an 2010 MSU award for “sustained effort toward excellence in diversity” for his work as a cross-cultural consultant, a passionate advocate of nondiscrimination, and as a central force in the establishment of our own Asian Pacific American Studies Program.
Frederick Leong founded and is the incoming editor of the Asian American Journal of Psychology, the official publication of the Asian American Psychological Association. Dedicated to research, practice, advocacy, education, and policy within Asian American psychology, this journal will provide an important forum for psychological approaches within Asian American Studies and help to advance multicultural approaches within Psychology.
Anna Pegler-Gordon published In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy which won the 2009 Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s award for the best book in immigration history.
Desiree Qin received the 2009 College of Social Science Integrative Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award. She was a co-author of numerous articles about the “lost boys” of Sudan and published:
- Gendered processes of adaptation: Understanding parent-child relations in Chinese immigrant families. Sex Roles, 60, 467-481. (2009)
- Being “good” or being “popular”: Gender and ethnic identity negotiations of Chinese immigrant adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 24, 37-66. (2009)
Mina Shin used the honorarium that she received for teaching in the Asian Pacific American Studies K-12 Teachers Workshop, to support her travel to Hawaii for an important National Endowment for Humanities Workshop, “History and Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War.” In addition to hearing Hawaiian Japanese first-hand accounts of the war and visiting Pacific War related sites and museums, Dr. Shin commemorated the contribution of Japanese Hawaiian 442nd regiment veterans at the Punch Bowl Cemetery. She plans to incorporate these studies into her Asian American Studies classes at MSU.
Joe Cousins participated in a May 2010 diversity workshop “Opening Doors,” sponsored by Office of Diversity & Pluralism in College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Office for Inclusion & Intercultural Initiatives.
Steve Gold published The Store in the Hood: A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict (2010). Dr. Gold also published articles, reviews, and presented papers on visual sociology and immigration at conferences, organizing a panel on “Immigration and Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation” at the American Sociological Association Meeting in Atlanta in August 2010.
