Description

Funds will seed a tenure-track Southeast Asian/Southeast Asian American literature and media studies position at NIU. A joint hire between the CSEAS and English, this community-engaged scholar will further CSEAS’s collaborations with Cambodian, Thai, Karen and Indonesian communities in the Chicago area and lead the development of K-12 curriculum to fulfill new Illinois requirements on teaching Asian American history.   Intergenerational Southeast Asian American and diaspora experiences will be highlighted through exhibitions, performances and other resources for educator and community use. Through these activities, Southeast Asian Studies and Asian American Studies will be more closely coordinated, helping to reinvigorate the SEA program with new theoretical and methodological approaches while directly supporting university-wide diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. 
 
This grant would advance the Asia Program’s Goal 1a (Support the continued development of Southeast Asian studies).