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From the College of Engineering blog: Ilham Siddiq survived the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami and is now using his firsthand disaster knowledge to evaluate the effectiveness of recovery policies. Siddiq, a civil engineering PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder and native of Indonesia, has earned...

A new book by a religious studies professor and CAS affiliate explores the West’s origins in the ambiguities, intersections and nuances of the Mediterranean. European history has long been written in the tales of kings. Together with two colleagues, a University of Colorado Boulder professor wants to reframe that narrative...

Carole McGranahan Department of Anthropology Report to the Center for Asian Studies: Professionalization Development Grant for Tibetan and Himalayan Studies A Center for Asian Studies professionalization grant enabled me to research and read new publications in the anthropology of the Himalayas. Based on this, I have created a syllabus for...

Could an explosion in tea-drinking explain a decline in deaths in England during the industrial revolution? Professor Francisca Antman, an economist at the University of Colorado Boulder believes it might. Tim Harford discovers that dusting down the data from tea shipments and local burial records gives us surprising insight into...

Emmanuel David, Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at CU Boulder. He is an interdisciplinary feminist, queer, and trans studies scholar with a qualitative research focus on gender, sexuality, labor, and globalization. Emmanuel has served on the Executive Board and the Curriculum Committee at the Center for...

CAS Faculty Director Rachel Rinaldo has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia for 2022-2023. She will be studying how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected women's work in Indonesia, and what challenges and barriers Indonesian women face in working during the pandemic recovery period. She is especially interested in...

This year’s Symposium “Intermountain Asia and DEI: Asian Studies in Colorado and Beyond” aimed to illuminate CAS’s 2021-2022 annual theme of Intermountain Asia by fostering discussion about justice, diversity, equity, and inequality in Asia/Asian diasporas as well as encouraging participants to talk about the importance of teaching and research about...

The Center for Asian Studies has funding available for CU Boulder faculty members who would like to develop Tibet and Himalaya related curricula for new or existing courses. CAS will offer two faculty awards for the creation or significant revision of an undergraduate course on Tibet and the Himalaya area...

We would like to congratulate our graduating seniors! Asian Studies Graduating Seniors Spring 2022 Odette Shin Thesis title: Declining Quality of Life: Korean Beauty Standards Fall 2021 Matt Gleason Bailey Strader Asian Studies Minors Tate Keeney History Major, Asian Studies Minor Cameron Feken Japanese Major, Asian Studies Minor Best of...

Join us Friday! CAS 2022 Symposium CAS’s theme this academic year has been Intermountain Asia. With this symposium, we seek to draw attention to the myriad connections between our corner of the world and Asia. We aim to better connect with our fellow Asianists nearby, and to cultivate a vision...