The Global Asias Initiative deepens the university’s ongoing commitment to fostering place-based, community-engaged work, with a focus on expanding this work to specifically to benefit our Asian American students, faculty, and staff.
The initiative creates a forum for engaging in difficult yet productive intellectual conversations in the fields of Asian American Studies, Asian diaspora studies, and Asian Studies. GAI synergizes UMBC’s strength in community-engaged, public-facing scholarship and connection by bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community partners to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional paradigms we have used to direct our study of AA identity and Asian migration.
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UMBC’s Global Asias Initiative is supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.