Anne R. Bautista is the new program coordinator in the Asian American Studies Program (AAST), whose primary role will be to work with AAST minors and course administration. She received her Master of Education in Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs from the University of Southern California. Anne is originally from this area and attended the University of Virginia, where she received a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology.

"There are two prominent motivations why someone would change their name," said Julie Park, professor director of Asian American Studies at the University of Maryland. "It could be an attempt at assimilation, like for my or Kim’s parents."

"As tensions with North Korea continue to rise, Korean American voices are often left out of the conversation. Hyphen presents twelve responses to the ongoing crisis."

Professor Cixin Wang, an AAST affiliate faculty member, has been selected to receive the 2017 Early Career Award from the Asian American Psychological Association. This award recognizes exemplary contributions in scholarship to the field of Asian American Psychology.

M. Butterfly is a play by David Henry Hwang loosely based on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking opera singer. The play premiered on Broadway in 1988 and won several Tony awards including Best Play and Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (B.D. Wong).

Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region’s booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly skilled and educated migrants from China, Taiwan, and India. At the same time, the response to these newcomers among long-time neighbors and city officials revealed complex attitudes in even the most well-heeled and diverse communities.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 2017, Dr. Terry Park taught in the following programs and institutions: History & Literature at Harvard University, where he was awarded a certificate of teaching excellence, advised an award-winning senior thesis, and helped establish an Ethnic Studies field; the American Studies Program at Wellesley College, where he designed courses on Asian American Performance, Techno-Orientalism, and the Korean War, as well as a multimedia oral history project with Korean War survivors that was featured on Wellesley's Spotlight on Teaching series; and the Asian/Asian American Studies Program at Miami University of Ohio.