Histories and Legacies of Asian Americans in Higher Education

Histories and Legacies of Asian Americans in Higher Education explores how Asian American faculty, students, and scholars are actively mobilizing and giving voice to their past and current struggles on campus and beyond. Our guests discuss the real-life impacts of stereotypes such as the model minority myth and articulate their thoughts on what are at stake for Asian America today, against the backdrop of Supreme Court cases challenging affirmative action policies in education.

Our guest speakers are:

Dr. Jen Nazareno, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor at the Brown University School of Public Health and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Innovation at Brown's School of Professional Studies. Her research focuses on social structural determinants of health as it relates to immigrant populations and immigrant entrepreneurship.

Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy, Ph.D. is Professor of Asian American & Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, & Justice in UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, & Society. She is the author of Asian American Histories in the United States (2022), Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America (2013), and Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (2003).

Joseph Tsuboi is a recent graduate from UCLA’s Asian American Studies Master’s Program. Joseph’s research looks at progressive Asian American organizing spaces in the greater Los Angeles area and their specific techniques towards cross-community solidarity.

Claire Nakamura graduated from UC Davis, majoring in History and Psychology with a minor in Asian American Studies. Her undergraduate thesis reexamined the history of Japanese American World War II incarceration through her grandfather's lens as a Kibei Nisei under the theoretical framework of family separation. She is currently an HR professional. 

Podcast Editor: Clare Boyle