APAM Student in the News
Jenica Rose Garcia is a senior at LMU, who will be graduating this spring with a major in Animation and a minor in Asian Pacific American Studies. Jenica was recently … Read more
Asian and Pacific Studies
Meet Raven Yamamoto ’21: An Up-and-Coming Journalist Crafting Stories for Social Change
Look around BCLA and you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone busier than Raven Yamamoto. Originally from Hawai`i, Yamamoto is a senior journalism major with a minor in political science. … Read more
Reflections on Being Mixed, but Not Mixed Up
By Curtiss Takada Rooks, Ph.D., assistant professor, Asian and Asian American Studies Department My mother was Japanese. My father was Black (African American). My father was Black. My mother was … Read more
Virtual Classroom Connects Students Across the Pacific
While spring semester study abroad and global immersion trips have been canceled due to the ongoing pandemic, Tom Plate, clinical professor and Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific studies, is … Read more
Sparking a Human Rights Mission
Sometimes things happen because of hard work and planning; other times, they happen by mistake. Both of these took place for Sam Baron, a 2019 graduate of the LMU Bellarmine … Read more
Meditations on Memory and Cambodia
By Nishan Silva ’19 “Can you tell me what tomorrow is, Hanun?” asks Teacher Mike, raising one eyebrow at the boy to indicate he had seen him fooling around with … Read more
Beyond the Bluff: Shannon Hayes ’18
Shannon Hayes ‘18 Major: Modern Languages (French and Mandarin), and Classics & Archaeology Minor: Asian and Pacific Studies Next Step: Ph.D. at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World … Read more