Research Fellows Program

The Institute for Asian American Studies established a Research Fellows Program in 1994 which provides small grants funding to faculty, graduate students, and other researchers who conduct a study on Asian American issues. Each Fellow is required to present his or her research at a public forum at UMB, and to submit a manuscript for publishing as an Occasional Paper by IAAS.

To view the 2013 Call for Propsals, click here.

2012

Loan Dao
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, UMass Boston
"Mapping Services and Social Networks for Elderly Vietnamese Americans in Boston, MA."

Heather Lee
Doctoral Candidate, American Civilization, Brown University
"Visualizing the Data: Spatial and Statistical Analyses of The Chinese Restaurant Labor Markets in the Northeast, 1920-1965."

2011

Kiran Shahreen Kaur Arora
Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling and School Psychology, UMass Boston
"Ten Years Later: The Experiences of 9/11 for Sikh Men and Women"

Rosann Tung
Research Director, Center for Collaborative Education
"Chinese and Vietnamese English Language Learners in Boston Public Schools: Enrollment, Program Participation, and Outcomes."

2010

Jing Tan
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Bridgewater State College
"Health and Mental Health of Older Asian Americans: a comparative study of Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, and other Asian/Pacific Islanders."

2009

Cecilia Chen
Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)
"Destabilizing the History of Busing in Boston."

Marlene Kim
Associate Professor, Economics, UMass Boston
"Asian Women and Double Discrimination in Earnings."

Haeok Lee
Associate Professor, Nursing & Health Sciences, UMass Boston
"Improving the Management of Hepatitis B: Patients' Perceptions of Chronic HBV Prevention and Management."

Nicole Newendorp
Lecturer and Assistant Director, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University
"The 'Age' of Migration: Caregiving, Security, and Chinese Elderly in Boston"

2008

Michaela WymanColombo
Assistant Professor, Education, UMass Lowell
"Perspectives of Successful Cambodian American High School Students."

Patricia Lee
Doctoral Student, Clinical Psychology, UMass Boston
Mental health and rehabilitation for Asian Americans with traumatic brain injury.

Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy
Doctoral Student, Education, Harvard University
Educational experiences of Lao and Khmer high school students in Lowell.

2007

Enrico Marcelli & Philip Granberry
Former Assistant Professor, Economics, UMass Boston & Ph.D. Candidate, Public Policy Program, UMass Boston
The Influence of Individual and Family Characteristics and Health Related Behaviors on Asian Immigrant Health.

2006

Shobha Hamal Gurung
Visiting Professor, Sociology, University of Connecticut
Exploring the Lives of Women in the Informal Global Economy: The Case of Nepali Women in New York and Boston

Lili M. Kim
Henry R. Luce Assistant Professor of History & Global Migration, Hampshire College
Multiple Belongings and Identity Formations: Korean Argentine Americans in Boston and New York City, 1965 - Present

Jacob I. Stowell
Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice, University of Massachusetts Lowell
A New Direction in the Study of Immigration and Crime: Examining the Relationship Between Asian Immigration and Criminal Deviance in New England

Wing-kai To
Associate Professor, History, Bridgewater State College
Chinese American Education and Culture in Boston during the Exclusion Era, 1870s to 1950s

2005

Patrick Clarkin
Assistant Professor, UMass Boston, Department of Anthropology
Refugee Experiences of Lao in Rhode Island

Nan Zhang Hampton
Associate Professor, UMass Boston, Department of Counseling & School Psychology
Exploring Cultural Impacts of Perceptions of Disability and Rehabilitation among Cambodians, Chinese, and Vietnamese in New England

Sophia Kim & Phitsamay Sychitkokhong
Staff at UMass Boston, Community Organizer
Doctoral Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Massachusetts Asian American Youths' Educational Experiences

2004

Soo Hong
Doctoral candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Beyond Alinsky and the IAF: Contemporary Organizing in Asian American Communities

Miliann Kang & C.N. Le
Assistant Professor, Women's Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Doctoral candidate, Sociology, University of Albany, State University of New York and Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Second Generation Asian Pacific American Households in New England: Negotiating Work, Family, Community and Identity

Grace Kim
Doctoral Candidate, Clinical Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston
The Co-Construction of Racial and Ethnic Identities, and Self-Esteem in Asian American Youth: Effects of Belonging and Exclusion

Josephine Louie
Doctoral candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Television and Race: What Chinese Youth from Immigrant Families Watch and Learn

Nalini Visvanathan
Lecturer, College Of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts Boston
South Asian Immigrant Women's Health: An Exploratory Study

2003

Maria Brunette
Assistant Professor, Work Environment, UMass Lowell
Decent and Safe Workplaces for Cambodian Workers in Lowell: A Pilot Study to Establish a Worker Awareness Campaign Using a Participatory Approach.

Monica Chiu
Assistant Professor, English, University of New Hampshire
Laotian Americans, Ethnicity, and Youth Culture on New Hampshire's Seacoast.

Paul Fernald
Doctoral student, Geography, University of Connecticut
Settlement patterns of Asian Americans in New England.

Shirley Tang & James Bui
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies and American Studies, UMass Boston
Director of Community Organizing, Viet-AID
Community Cultural Development Matters: The Vietnamese American Experience in Dorchester, MA.

2002

Khanh Dinh
Assistant Professor, Psychology, UMass Lowell
Psychosocial Profile of Asian Immigrants in Relation to their Past Life Events

Richard Hung
Assistant Professor, Human Services, UMass Boston
Asian American Nonprofits in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Sunaina Maira
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, UMass Amherst
"South Asian Muslim Immigrant Youth in Cambridge: Cultural Citizenship in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001."

Yuting Shih
Doctoral candidate, Education, UMass Amherst
"Narratives of Chinese Female Immigrant Professionals: Factors that Affect their Career Development and Strategies Used for Career Adjustment."

2001

Shehong Chen
Assistant Professor, History, UMass Lowell
Reconstructing the Chinese Experience in Lowell, MA, 1876-1967

Marlene Kim
Assistant Professor, Economics, UMass Boston
Wage Penalties for Asian American Workers

Michael Liu
Research Associate, Institute for Asian American Studies, UMass Boston
Survey of East Coast Asian American Activism

Jocelyn Pan
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard School of Public Health
Tobacco Use Among Asian Immigrant Youth: Integration of the Segmented Assimilation Framework to Public Health

Rachel Rubin
Assistant Professor, American Studies, UMass Boston
Cyberspace, Y2K: Giant Robots, Asian Punks

2000

Mai Tuyet Pho
Student, UMass Medical School
A Failure to Communicate: Exploring the Psychosocial Basis for HIV/AIDS-related Interpersonal Communication between Vietnamese American Sexual Partners

Yuegang Zuo
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UMass Dartmouth
Antioxidants in Traditional Asian Americans' Food and Drink-Free Radical Quenching Property and Protective Effects on Breast Cancer

1999

Madhulika Khandelwal
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, UMass Boston
Documenting Emerging Asian American Communities: South Asians in the Boston Area.

Zhonghe Li
Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, UMass Amherst
Culture, Acculturation and Wife Abuse: A Community-based Study of Chinese American Women Living in Boston

Maya Shinohara
M.A. candidate, Art History, UMass Amherst
Here and Now: Contemporary Asian American Artists in New England

Bei Wu
Ph.D. candidate, Gerontology, UMass Boston
Supplementing Informal Care of Frail Elders with Formal Services: A Comparison of White, Hispanic and Asians