University of Maryland Asian American Studies Program Scholarships 2014-15

A number of scholarship awards offered through AAST at the University of Maryland each year.

The program provides students with the opportunity to critically study the experiences of Asian Americans. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students examine the histories, communities, and cultures of Asian Americans as both distinctive from and connected to the broader themes of diversity, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, and migration in the Americas. AAST offers a 15-credit minor program for students who wish to develop a specialization in Asian American Studies alongside their degree pursuits.

The mission of AAST is to foster excellence in research and education about Asian Americans in the United States. Asian American Studies focuses on the lives, history, and culture of Asians from a comparative point of view. Specifically, we study persons who have immigrant and ancestral ties to any region of Asia and the Pacific.

Though there is no single Asian American identity, community, or experience, we believe that Asian American Studies provides a special opportunity for inquiry based on collaboration across fields and disciplines of academic study.

Website: UM AASP Scholarships