MPR News interviews CSER Professor Marie Myung-Ok Lee on Asian-American representation in children’s media, following a discussion of the same in Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitter’s Club, now a Netflix series. Read the article here.

CSER honors student Amanda Qi Xin Ong, who has created a website to share her thesis, “as you left it,” a creative nonfiction oral history, through mixed media.

Co-Director Mae Ngai shared her thoughts about the effect of President Trump’s incendiary tweets on the Chinese-American community. She is featured on Background Briefing  and quoted in an Oprah Magazine article.

CSER Professor Jennifer Lee was inducted on February 23, 2020 as the 91st President of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). As President of one of the largest regional sociological societies in the world, Prof. Lee will design the 2021 ESS Annual Conference, which will be hosted in New York City.

CSER Co-Director Mae Ngai was awarded the Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship for 2020-2021. She also delivered the Cheng Centennial Lecture at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, on January 22.

Many immigrant communities, wary of the government’s interest in their information, tend to avoid the US Census. The Guardian quoted CSER Professor Liz OuYang on her important work as a census expert in NYC. Read more here.

Interested in helping out or learning more about the current situation in Puerto Rico? Centro voces of Hunter College’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies has compiled a list of important updates on the country, in addition to contextualizing history and current affairs articles. Read more here.

CSER’s Writer-in-Residence received a Robert B. Silvers Foundation 2019 Silvers Grant for Works in Progress. See all award recipients here.

CSER Professor Liz OuYang is a Norman Y. Mineta Leadership Institute trainer for APIA Vote, helping with census outreach strategies and best practices. Read more here.