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Top: Dylan Yeats at the re-opening of "Archivist of the 'Yellow Peril'" exhibition,
March 7, 2006

2nd: Emily Chu (far right) with fellow curatorial staff at the opening of "Art, Archives and Activism" exhibition, March 6, 2009

3rd: Nancy Ng Tam with George Yuzawa at the celebration and exhibition of The George Yuzawa Papers at Tamiment Library,
October 21, 2009

Bottom: Amita Manghnani (top left) with Jack and Bernice Shaheen (bottom row) and the A/P/A Institute oral history documentation team, February 21, 2010
SCHOLARS AT A/P/A INSTITUTE

Graduate Assistant in A/PA Archives

Dylan Yeats, 2005-2007
While at A/P/A Institute, Yeats co-curated "The Archivist of the Yellow Peril" and curated "Persistent Light: Eugenia Sumiye Okoshi and George Mukai." He also worked on the Yoshio Kishi / Irene Yah Ling Sun archive collection and wrote the essay titled "Documenting Exclusion and the Logic of Difference" for the book Yellow Peril: Collecting Xenophobia published by A/P/A Institute, 2008.

I-Ting Emily Chu, 2007-2009
Chu's research focus concentrates on Asian/Pacific/American women, activism, and archives. While at A/P/A Institute, Emily co-curated "Art, Archives and Activism: Martin Wong's Downtown Crossings," and was a member of the Documenting Heritage Project team that surveyed Asian American collections in New York. Read her blog "Archiving Activism" to learn more about her activities at NYU.

Y.H. Nancy Ng Tam, 2008-2010
At the A/P/A Institute, Ng Tam has been working on the Documentary Heritage Project, surveying collections relating to the New York A/PA community. She has also been assisting on a range of projects relating to A/PA Archives, including processing and co-developing a web exhibit of the George Yuzawa Papers, the initial sorting of the Yoshio Kishi / Irene Yah Ling Sun Collection, and managing the active files of the upcoming East Coast Asian American Art Project.

Amita Manghnani, 2009-2011
As the Graduate Scholar in A/PA Archives, Manghnani has been working on the A/PA Documentary Heritage archives survey, identifying existing and potential archival collections relating to the history of A/PA communities in New York City, and assisted in the creation of an archives exhibit at the NYU Tamiment Library featuring The George Yuzawa Papers. In addition, she is assisting in the processing and promotion of the Jack Shaheen Collection.



Visiting Scholars

Leakhena Nou from September 2008 - present for her research connected to the Applied Social Research Institute of Cambodia (ASRIC) which is affiliated with the A/P/A Institute since September 2008.

Robert Asahina from August 2002-October 2004 for research on his book, Just Americans

Winifred C. Chin from July 2004-August 2006 for research on her book, Interchange

Allan Isaac from August 2002-August 2003 for research on his book, American Tropics

Jamie Lew from September 2004-May 2005 for research on her book, Asian Americans in Class

Margo Machida from September 2002-July 2007 for research on her book, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes and Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (forthcoming Duke University Press 2009)

Yong Soon Min from February 2007-May 2007 for curatorial work on "Exquisite Encounters" exhibition