On many secular college and university campuses and in surrounding communities, Christian organizations offer international students, scholars and spouses free group study of Bible stories as well as meals and other social activities. On one hand, Bible-based content is interest…
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Data shows that there is an overall dearth of Asian Americans in the role of the principalship in K-12 public schools. According to the Department of Education (2019), Asian Americans made up 5% of the national student population, but less than two percent of all K-12 public sch…
Asian American student population is one of the fastest-growing people in the U.S., but Asian American visibility is still lacking in U.S. secondary public-school curricula. When there is mention of Asian American history in the curricula, narratives are limited to token histori…
Research regarding attachment with God and differentiation of self has a robust foundation in the literature, however, cross-cultural studies are limited. This study examines attachment with God, individualism, collectivism, and differentiation of self in second generation Chris…
This dissertation examines questions of political solidarity across uneven difference by focusing on how processes of information coordination, production, and circulation shape social movements formations. I demonstrate how shifting relationships between marginalized people and…
This dissertation proposes an alternative reading and grouping of Korean American cultural production as diasporic ethnopoetics, and focuses on how vernacular works unfold aesthetic space for the mediation of transpacific histories and local memories. This approach does not yiel…
From the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to President Jimmy Carter’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China in 1979, transnational politics played a large role in shaping the Chinese American experience in the United States (U.S.). This study examines th…
Hmong elders, who moved to the United States as political refugees from Southeast Asia have sought to maintain their cultural traditions and find that having those traditions honored at end of life (EOL) may prove to be difficult. This difficulty arises from healthcare providers…
Chinese Diaspora archaeology has focused historically on urban contexts or in-depth case studies, with minimal comparative studies. To expand such research, this thesis is a multisited analysis in Oregon using archaeological assemblages from the Jacksonville Chinese Quarter and …
This thesis looks at an archaeological assemblage from a domestic feature on the Island Mountain site in northeastern Nevada. The site was a Chinese mining settlement active in the late 1800s until the turn of the century. While the community declined after the mining economy we…
Members of racially marginalized communities resist oppression through collective acts of protest and solidarity. Though these acts have been well documented throughout history, there is limited work in psychology examining Asian American own-group activism and solidarity with o…
This dissertation serves two purposes: first, to examine how a non-Western woman artist can speak in a globalized art world; second, to analyze the critical discourses of Korean contemporary art starting from the late 1980s - postmodernism, feminism, and globalization.
Despite Asian Americans being one the fastest growing ethno-cultural group in the U.S., there is limited research on Asian American women specifically. The purpose of this paper is to explore existing literature on their sexual expression and behavior, and how religion and cultu…
This dissertation examines the various meanings of modernity in the history of Korean pop music, focusing on several crucial turning points in the development of K-pop. Since the late 1980s, Korean pop music has aspired to be a more advanced industry and establish an internation…
This study seeks to understand how undergraduate Filipinx Americans develop historical consciousness and what the impacts of this are on their racial identity. The roots of Filipinx American historical erasure date back to colonization of the Philippines, both Spanish and U.S. o…
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) challenge our nation’s dominant Black-White racial paradigm. With varied ethnic, socioeconomic, and historical backgrounds, AAPIs do not align neatly with this simplistic, bimodal model. The lack of research on AAPIs has further cont…
This dissertation offers an in-depth analysis of the history of Asian American stereotypes presented throughout U.S. media and popular culture, with particular emphasis on the impact of racialized gender stereotypes on Asian American males. Utilizing a theoretical hermeneutic de…
This dissertation examines the preservation and adaptation of Korean-ness through musical performances in the Korean peninsula and in Hawai‘i during the early twentieth century, when Korea was a Japanese colony. Hawai‘i deserves special attention because the first and largest Ko…