KEYNOTE
Yale Professor Gary Okihiro will deliver the keynote address at the start of the symposium. After receiving his Ph.D. in African history from UCLA, Professor Okihiro began his teaching in and directing of comparative ethnic studies programs at Humboldt State University (California), and then at Santa Clara University (California). He moved to Cornell University (New York) to help develop its Asian American Studies Program, and to Columbia to establish the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, before coming to Yale in 2017. His career, thus, includes work at both public and private institutions as a teacher and administrator on both coasts, and he is one of the founders of the fields of Asian American and comparative ethnic studies.
He is author of eleven books, including most recently Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation (Duke University Press, 2016) He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association and the Association for Asian American Studies, received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Ryukyus, and is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.
Event photos
Thank you to everyone who helped make our inaugural Yale/ Connecticut undergraduate ethnic studies symposium such a success. below is a selection of photos from the event.
