Maum Joins UConn Asian and Asian American Studies Institute’s Activist-in-Residency Program
Maum is excited to announce that they have joined the Activist-in-Residence program at UConn's Asian and Asian American Studies Institute for the upcoming 2022-23 academic year.
“Housed in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,” as stated on their website, AAASI “is a multidisciplinary research and teaching program. Distinguished by its global, diasporic, national, regional, and transnational orientations, the Institute brings two traditionally distinct fields of inquiry together in dynamic conversation: Asian Studies and Asian American Studies. Comprised of the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, the Institute’s research output and course offerings engage Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas not as static, monolithic sites rather as sets of shifting historical, geographic, and geopolitical zone of interaction, struggle, and cooperation.”
Under the directorship of Dr. Jason Oliver Chang, AAASI is engaged in innovative, public-facing work, including working with allies through the Connecticut chapter of Make Us Visible to implement first-in-the-nation legislation that requires the inclusion of Asian American and Pacific Islander history with funding for localized curriculum development. The passage of the historic bill, as described on Make Us Visible’s website, was a result of a “bipartisan coalition of parents, students, teachers, and policymakers…Their bill had 99 co-sponsors with legislative support from both the Progressive and Conservative Caucuses, and everyone in between…After passing the House and Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support, the bill was signed into law on May 24. The Governor, alongside the bill, also signed a proclamation recognizing May as AAPI Heritage Month. These successes build on MUV CT's legislation [the previous] year including AAPI history in a K-8 model curriculum with 360k in funding. Their team is looking forward to working with the State Department of Education on the development and implementation of these two new laws.”
To that end, Maum is honored to join current AiR's Jennifer Heikkila Diaz and Mike Keo to contribute to community dialogs, youth-driven family oral history workshops, K-8 teacher preparation in Asian American literature, and the Institute's Advanced Pedagogy Curriculum Lab.
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