AAS Career Opportunity @ Wellesley

The American Studies Program at Wellesley College invites applications for a one-time appointment as a lecturer for the following course in Asian American Studies for the spring semester 2009.

Course: “Identity & Community Formation: Asian American Perspectives”

This course offers a set of analytic tools for grappling with the historical and contemporary complexities of Asian American identification and community formation. The course introduces students to different theoretical frames for exploring and interrogating the meaningful contours of the terms “Asian American” in relation to other racialized and ethnic groups in the U.S. By taking an interdisciplinary and comparative cultural studies approach, we will pay particular attention to the historical conditions and ongoing processes for the social formation of persons and collectivities under the rubric “Asian American” and its variants (e.g., Asian-American, Asian-Pacific-American, etc.) as well as examine multiplicities, contradictions, and gaps of Asian American identifications and politics. The goal of this course is to provide students with useful theoretical tools for critically thinking about the ever-shifting terrain of Asian American identification in the wider contexts of Orientalism, U.S. imperialism and nationalism, racialization and racism, economic restructuring, transnationalism and other social processes and transformations.

Applicants should have PhD in hand or be ABD with teaching experience and/or research background in Asian American Studies. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, names/e-mail address of two references electronically through our online application system at: https://career.wellesley.edu/. If circumstances make it impossible to submit any materials through our application site, you may send them to: Elena Tajima Creef, Women’s Studies Department, Wellesley College at the following e-mail address: ecreef@wellesley.edu.

Applications received by November 15 will be given full consideration.

Wellesley College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. For more information about being a faculty member at Wellesley College, please see
http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/Diversity/Open_pos/prospectfac.pdf.

Asian American Get Out the Vote Party

This coming Wed., Oct. 8, WAA is hosting Asian American Get Out the Vote Party from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM at Rm. 415 in the student center, co-sponsoring with ASU (Asian Student Union), GA (GenerAsians), and CPLA (Committee for Political and Legislative Action) to promote more voting turnout within Wellesley's Asian American community in order to address the concern that Asian Americans have the least voting turnout amongst all ethnic minorities. In the 2004 elections, 44% of the Asian American population voted, as opposed to the nearly 64% of Americans who voted. 37.7% of Asian Americans who did not vote cited their reasons as "not interested or involved in politics." Don't know who to vote for because you don't know each candidate's stance on issues that concern you? We'll provide them. Don't know where to get the forms? We'll have them with us. Don't know what the deadlines are? We'll tell you. Confused by the voting rules and restrictions? Just ask us. Don't wanna pay for mailing? Guess what? We're paying them for you. Why? So you can join us in our fight to help shape our country by registering to vote. YOUR VOTE MATTERS.

Spam by Mina Kang '09