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aapi studies

After Decades of Activism, Faculty Approves AAPI Studies Major

The department’s core faculty will remain members of other departments, and their courses will be cross-listed in both AAPI studies and their home departments, which will include English, economics, psychology, and SWAGs.

Scrutinizing the AAPI Studies Major

Following the faculty vote approving the AAPI Studies program, Editor-in-Chief Kei Lim ’25 and Senior Managing Editor Noor Rahman ’25 dissect the critical shortcomings of the discipline and the exclusionary tendencies at Amherst that exacerbate them.

The AAPI Program Must Carry Its Radical Past

Senior Managing Editor Stacey Zhang ’26 writes about Asian American studies’ radical political past, and how this can inform the discipline‘s future.

Amherst Asian Alumni Network Argues for the Establishment of an AAPI Studies Major

Amherst Asian Alumni Network Argues for the Establishment of an AAPI Studies Major

The Amherst Asian Alumni Network shares testimonies from alumni in support of an AAPI studies major.

Office Hours: Why AAPI? with Professor Saito

Office Hours: Why AAPI? with Professor Saito

Host Priscilla Lee ’25 is joined by Visiting Assistant Professor Nazomi Nakaganeku Saito to discuss the lumping-together of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders under the “AAPI” umbrella and consider how it has affected scholarship on the region.