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As of spring 2026, the Center for Ethnic Studies now offers a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Asian American Studies (AAS). The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization provides an…

The Center for Ethnic Studies has announced its next round of funding for students affiliated with the center and its programs. Applications are currently live for the autumn Student Travel and…

Spring courses for Ethnic Studies are now posted on this site and on our program sites for your scheduling convenience. Find them all in one place on this website on the "Courses" page.

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The recipients of the Spring 2023 Center for Ethnic Studies Travel and Research Grants have reported on their research projects. They were asked to give a short account of how they used their…

The Center for Ethnic Studies is pleased to announce that Sampada Aranke, Associate Professor of Art History and Comparative Studies, is the new Associate Director of the Center.

Sampada's…

​Are you looking for courses for Summer 2023? Ethnic Studies has plenty of options in all three of our programs.

For more information, email ethnicstudies@osu.edi, or go to classes.osu.edu…

The Asian American Studies Program and the South Asian Studies Initiative at Ohio State categorically condemns the mass shooting that occurred at the FedEx facility in Indianapolis on April 15,…

To our campus community,

As Ohio State campus entities directly related to Asian & Asian American Pacific Islander communities, we write in empathy and solidarity to students, staff, and…

Congratulations to the recipients of the Autumn Student Travel and Research Grants! We received a record number of applications over this grant cycle, all an impressive array of projects and…

The Center of Ethnic Studies at Ohio State, which includes the American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino/a Studies Programs, sends our sympathies and solidarity to the family of…

CES Autumn 2022 Student Travel and Research Grants

The Center for Ethnic Studies is pleased to announce its travel and research grants program for the 2022-2023 academic year!

Amna Akbar, professor of law in the Moritz College of Law and co-author of “Race, Racism and American Law, 7th Ed.,” is a recipient of the Freedom Scholars Awards for 2021. The Freedom Scholars…

The Asian American Studies program would like to acknowledge our Spring graduates:

Mia Cariello

Binu Godage

Yunzi Ni

Anabel Pederson

We congratulate these…

Congratulations to our own Dr. Jian Neo Chen, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, for winning the 2021 Association for Asian American Studies book award in the…

Center for Ethnic Studies invites eligible undergraduates and graduates to apply for the CES Interdisciplinary Programs Scholarship. The Scholarship is designed to support students who are…

Asian American Studies recognizes the excellent research and creative work conducted by students. Faculty members teaching Asian American Studies courses or mentoring students…

Asian American Studies Program is participating, along with Asian/Asian American/APIDA partners around campus, in “Caring For Our Community, Part 2,” organized by the MCC, for Asian/APIDA students…

Dear members of the Ohio State community:

The Asian American Studies Program at Ohio State (AAS) strongly condemns the murders of six Asian/Asian American women – along with two other…

From leading a rally against former President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslim countries at the Columbus airport in 2017 to spending his free time chanting Hindustani classical songs, Pranav…

Asian American Studies is pleased to announce Professor Jian Chen, Julianna Crame, Mia Cariello, Molly Jasina, and Matthew Urwin as the recipient of Asian American Studies Awards.

Presented by the OSU Student Life Multicultural Center, and co-sponsored by The Center for Ethnic Studies, Dolores Huerta visited campus on March 21st. Huerta, a civil rights activist and…

Affirmative Action on Trial
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 7:00pm
Nosker Burgee Room, Nosker House, Room 100

Creating Racial Wedges: Affirmative Action on Trial examined the Harvard…

No-No Boy Multimedia Concert
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 7:00pm
OSU Faculty Club, North Dining Room, Second Floor

This event brought together over 30 undergraduate and…

Professor Lynn Iagaki will be on talking about her book Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the Crisis of Racial Burnout (U of Minnesota P, 2016) with the host of "Rising Up…

Assistant Professor Namiko Kunimoto in the Department of the History of Art and affiliated faculty with Asian American Studies has been awarded a Japan Foundation Fellowship for the 2016/17…

Congratulations to Professor Lynn Itagaki, who was recently awarded the 2014 Arts and Humanities Diversity Enhancement Award!

Itagaki, a professor of English and Women's, Gender, and…

Run4Refugees: A 5k That Changes People's Lives

Saturday, April 26 at Sharon Woods Metro Park

Sign-In 9:00 am
Kid's Walk 9:45 am
5k Walk/Run 10:00 am

Register on…

There are close to 10,000 Bhutanese/Nepali refugees in Central Ohio area. The Bhutanese refugee population lived in refugee camps in Nepal for close to 20 years and began settling in North America…

More than 35 attendees gathered together to work with Daniel Kim (Brown University) and Lynn Itagaki (OSU) on Lynn Itagaki's book project "Racial Burnout: The Crisis of Civil Racism at the End of…

I graduated from Ohio State with majors in Neuroscience and Music Performance (Cello) and a minor in Asian-American Studies. When I came to Ohio State, I planned to pursue those two majors, but…

"The Asian American Studies Program (AASP) has exciting plans for the 2013-2014 academic year.

We are starting an oral history project for the Asian American community in Central Ohio. We…

Asian American Studies hosted Jon Jang, a Northern California-based, Chinese American educator and jazz musician for an evening talk entitled "Evening of Jazz and Conversation,", as well a mid-day…

The 2013 Asian American Studies Distinguished Lecturer, with co-sponsorship from DISCO and others, and as part of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month speaker series, hosted Crystal Parikh …

Asian American Studies is offering a limited number of small grants aimed at supporting research. All OSU students are eligible to apply and proposals will be evaluated on the basis of projects'…

More than 100 students, faculty, and community members attended the "Racism and Violence After 9/11: The Oak Creek Shootings in Perspective" event, a discussion forum cosponsored by the Asian…

2011 - 2012 was a fine year for Asian American Studies at OSU.

First, congratulations to our graduating minors: Yuri Doolan, Ronald Holgado, and

"Dear The Ohio State University Community,

We the undersigned issue this public statement to strongly condemn the recent hate crimes and speech on and near the OSU campus. As members and…

The faculty, students, and staff affiliated with DISCO strongly condemn the recent spraypaintings of the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center and of a nearby off-campus building. The messages…

11/30/2011, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Barbie Tootle Room, Ohio Union

The Asian American Studies program co-hosted an event for interested students to learn about the field of Asian American Studies…

Thompson Library, Multipurpose Room

Anomaly is an award-winning documentary that provides a thought-provoking look at multiracial identity by combining personal narratives with the larger…

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority explores the remarkable political story of Patsy Takemoto Mink, an Asian American woman from Hawai‘i who, battling racism and sexism, redefined American politics…

Asian American Studies Workshop Series

Joseph Orser is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, and is a Ph.D. Alum of the OSU History Department.…

In 1982, at the height of anti-Japanese sentiments arising from massive layoffs in the auto industry, a Chinese-American named Vincent Chin was murdered in Detroit by two white autoworkers. Chin's…

There is a question why more and more women subject themselves to time-consuming, expensive and sometimes painful processes in their quest for physical perfection. Yet this constant striving to…