Asian American Studies

Submission from 2019

• Xueting Ni (HC Psychology ’19). Ethnocultural Patterns in Social Support Mismatch: Links with Relationship Satisfaction and Well-being —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.

Submission from 2018

• Rachel Romens, Jia-Ling Tuan, Grace Fioramonti-Gorchow (HC Psychology ’18). Cultural differences in the benefits of providing support  —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.

Submissions from 2017

• Priyanka Dutta (BMC Psychology ‘17). Language discrepancies, parent-child closeness, and family value discrepancies as perceived by Asian American students  —Advisor: Heejung Park
• Isabelle Frosch (BMC Psychology ‘17). Asian and Asian American college students’ experiences of discrimination, wellbeing, and the role of sociocultural identities  —Advisor: Heejung Park.
• Meera Jayaraman (BMC English ‘17) on Asian American and Native American feminist literature  —Advisor: Jennifer Vargas, with Bakirathi Mani consulting.
• Maira Karan (BMC Psychology ‘17). Sleep malleability attitudes and cultural orientation as predictors of sleep quality in Asian college students in the United States  —Advisor: Heejung Park.
• Matthew Sueda (SC Japanese Language and Literature ‘17) on Issei (First-Generation) Japanese American Poetry in Hawai’i  —Advisor: Will Gardner, with Bakirathi Mani consulting.

Submissions from 2016

• Jee Soo Kang (HC Anthropology ’16). Self Making Through Hybridized Cultural Citizenship: Diasporic Korean American College Students and Their Engagement with Korean Popular Media —Advisor: Ethiraj Dattatreyan.
• Laura Marino (HC Psychology ‘16). Reciprocity and Mutuality of Social Support Across Cultures —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.
• Samuel Mori (SC History ‘16). Saving Furusato in the City of Quartz: Japanese American Imaginings of Community, Culture, and History through the Little Tokyo Redevelopment Projects —Advisors: Bruce Dorsey and Bakirathi Mani; Timothy Burke and BuYun Chen.
• Kelsey Owyang (HC Sociology ‘16). Asian American Educational Experiences and the Malleable Persistence of Orientalism —Advisor: Matt McKeever.
• Rudrani Sharma (BMC English ‘16) on South Asian American /African American feminisms  —Advisors: Jennifer Vargas and Bakirathi Mani.
• Divya Shiv (HC Psychology ‘16). Cultural Differences in Reciprocal and Mutual Social Support  —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.
• Peiwen Tang (BMC Psychology ‘16). Parent-initiated and child-initiated communication in high school and college: A comparison between international and domestic students with Chinese and Korean backgrounds  —Advisor: Advisor: Heejung Park.
• Sunny Zheng (HC History ‘16). “Image”-ing Otherwise: the Ambivalent Politics of Asian American Visual Self-Representation in the post-1965 Era —Advisor: Andrew Friedman.

Submissions from 2015

• Catherine Aronowitz (HC Psychology ‘15). The Effects of Cultural Differences and Constructive Capitalization Responses on Different Social Support Outcomes —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.
• Natalia Banfi and Caroline Broomfield (HC Psychology ‘15). Stress and social support seeking in International Asian, Asian American, and European American college students  —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.
• Caroline Broomfield (HC Psychology ‘15). Culture and the College Experience: Stress, Stressor Domains, and Social Support Seeking in International Asian, Asian American, and European American College Students —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.
• Dayna Kim (HC Psychology ‘15). The Effects of Cultural Differences on Constructive Capitalization Responses on Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Outcome Variables —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.

Submissions from 2014

• Catherine Brooks (HC Psychology ‘14). Social support interactions and processes across cultures —Advisor: Shu-wen Wang.
• Neilay Shah (HC History ‘14). The Luce-Celler Act of 1946: White Nationalism, Indian Nationalism and the Cosmopolitan Elite —Advisor: Andrew Friedman.

Submissions from 2012

• Yen Phan (HC History ‘12). "Family Ties": Operation Babylift, Transnational Adoption, and the Sentimentalism of US and Vietnam Relations (1967-2002) —Advisor: Andrew Friedman.
• Ankhi Thakurta (SC English and Sociology/Anthropology ‘12), on Second-Generation South Asian American Embodiment of “Model Minority Myth”  —Advisors: Bakirathi Mani and Maya Nadkarni.
• Sasha Wijeyeratne (SC Sociology/Anthropology '12). South Asian Politics and the Politics of Being South Asian: (Re)Conceptualizing South Asian Diasporic Organizing in the U.S. —Advisors: Bakirathi Mani and Maya Nadkarni.

Advocating Diversity course

• Jee Soo Kang (HC, ‘16). Asian/American Perspectives on Mental Health in the Bi-Co  —Advisor: Alison Cook-Sather.
• Kelly Jung. Does Diversity Even Matter in Philosophy?: Reflection and Analysis on the Lack of Women of Color in Philosophy Departments  —Advisor: Alison Cook-Sather.