Alyssa Thomas '25, Asian Studies, Fulbright recipient
Check out this UMBC News Story about Alyssa Thomas '25, Asian Studies, now a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Taiwan!
October 7, 2025
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Posts
A wonderful conversation on food and community
Check out this article about the wonderful conversation on culinary communities featuring UMBC alumnus Steve Chu and hosted by Dr. Mika Thornburg, postdoctoral fellow of the Global Asias Initiative!
September 20, 2025
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On China's recent military parade
Check out this podcast featuring our former Director, Dr. Meredith Oyen (Associate Professor of History), who will be teaching ASIA100 in Spring 2026!
September 15, 2025
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REPOSTING - the Korenman lecture by GWST
How have histories of colonialism and their foundational language of gender, race, sexuality, and nation shaped the language, terminology, and theories of the modern plant sciences? How and why do...
September 12, 2025
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Please check out this inspiring story about Ivy Nguyen '23, double majors in Asian Studies/Global Studies!
September 10, 2025
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Students, there is a new course that may be of interest to you available this fall. Please check it out! POLS 309.01 – Politics and Cinema in the Middle East Instructor: Dr. Busra Nur Ozguler...
August 26, 2025
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Sign up to learn more about political leadership in Asia!
Asian Studies is offering a “new” course this fall, ASIA 300: Political Leadership in Asia. For the Fall 2025 semester, we will be having instructor Zareen Taj teach this course! Zareen Taj may be...
July 3, 2025
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Congratulations to our Spring 2025 graduates! Amanda Lynne Evans Asmaou Thiam Alyssa Thomas Sarah Jeannette Siskind All of us here in the program are so proud of you and your...
May 22, 2025
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RSVP today!
[ORIGINAL POST HERE] RSVP TODAY for our end of the year Celebration & Awards! Student Belonging (formerly known as Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion, & Belonging, or i3b) in the...
April 18, 2025
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Pre-lunar festival celebrated in Japan
Asian Studies Students, While you are preparing for the start of the second week of the spring semester, in Japan today people are celebrating Setsubun (literally, "seasonal division"), a...
February 2, 2025
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