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A 60-month grant of $120,000 for Global Asias: Methods|Architecture|Praxis.   Total Budget:                                                  $204,455, 59% funded by HLF Other sources of support:                              Pennsylvania State University   The Global Asias Initiative, launched in 2013, supports collaborative work that spans Asian, Asian American and Asian Diaspora studies. It produces an award-winning journal and hosts a biennial conference and an annual summer institute, all opportunities for different kinds of scholars and scholarship to be in dialogue without collapsing them into a unified set of perspectives and approaches. A grant would fund an open access book series published by University of Hawai’i Press, manuscript mentoring workshops and outreach to scholars in Asia. A goal is to create institutional legibility for Global Asias as a multidisciplinary and trans-field mode of knowledge production. Fifteen books are envisioned over the grant’s life. Two workshops will be held in conjunction with AAS-in-Asia. Open access publishing will ensure greater accessibility for scholars at underfunded institutions and in other parts of the world.         A 2020 grant to the Association for Asian Studies launched a GAI collaboration between AAS and the Association for Asian American Studies.   This grant would advance Asia Goal 4 (nurture innovation), and also further Goal 1 (advancement of academic study of Asia) and our efforts to support border-crossing work.