Phi Beta Kappa honoredRosina Lozano, associate professor of history and Class of 1942 University Preceptor, in its annual awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Students in the course “Rapping in Spanish” explored Spanish rap and hip-hop as urban poetry.
Core faculty and executive committee member Aisha Beliso De-Jesús, professor of Spanish and Portuguese and American studies, was named editor-in-chief of Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal of the Association of Black Anthropologists.
2018 AMS alumnus Nicholas Wu writes with Karen Yuan on TheAtlantic.com about the Facebook group Subtle Asian Traits, “a digital manifestation of a ‘third space,’ [...] in which ‘cultural hybrids,’ such as the children of immigrants [...] shape their unique identities.”
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Anne Cheng asks “Is the idea of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ preferable to the Model Minority or the F.O.B. (‘fresh-off-the-boat’) or, for that matter, the Yellow Peril?”
