Wesleyan University
The Freeman Asian/Asian American Initiative
Stanford M. Forrester, Coordinator
Room 308 Fisk Hall
262 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459
(860)685-3425, Fax (860) 685-2091
Email:sforrester@wesleyan.edu
www.wesleyan.edu/asian_asianamericaninitiative/
Coordinator:
Stanford M. Forrester
Faculty:
Stephen Angle, Jonathan Best, Shilpa Davé, Patrick Dowdey,
Patricia Hill, Masami Imai, Allan Isaac, William Johnston,
Terry Kawashima, Kehaulani Kauanui, Anita H. Mannur, Claire
Potter Yoshiko Samuel, Vera Schwarcz, Keiji Shinohara,
Weiji Song, Taku Suzuki, Etsuko Takahashi, David Titus,
Ellen Widmer, Janice Willis, Su Zheng, & Xiaomiao Zhu.
General Information:
Wesleyan has received a four-year, $1.9 million grant from
the Freeman Foundation to support the study of Asia and the
Asian Diaspora - the study of people of Asian heritage
outside the geographical boundaries of Asia. The grant will
optimize the resources of the Center for East Asian Studies
and the Center for the Americas and will allow the
University to offer significant opportunities for academic
and cultural enrichment.
Topics/Courses:
Asian American Sexualities
Asian Americans and Popular Culture
Asian American Woman and Literature
Asian Diaspora in the Americas
Culinary Scapes: Food and Race in Asian America
Diaspora and Asian American Experiences
Introduction to Asian American Literature
The Chinese American Experience
The United States and Japan in World War II
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