Tri-Co students have completed thesis projects, independent research, and course projects in Asian American Studies. Here are some recent examples:

• Mingyue Sun (BMC Psychology '21) Racial microaggressions among Asian American and Asian international students (Advisor: Heejung Park)
• Xueting Ni (HC Psychology ’19). Ethnocultural patterns in social support mismatch: Links with relationship satisfaction and well-being (Advisor: Shu-wen Wang)
• Rachel Romens, Jia-Ling Tuan, Grace Fioramonti-Gorchow (HC Psychology ’18). Cultural differences in the benefits of providing support (Advisor: Shu-wen Wang)
• Maira Karan (BMC Psychology ‘17). Sleep malleability attitudes and cultural orientation as predictors of sleep quality in Asian college students in the United States (Advisor: Heejung Park)
• Priyanka Dutta (BMC Psychology ‘17). Language discrepancies, parent-child closeness, and family value discrepancies as perceived by Asian American students (Advisor: Heejung Park)
• Isabelle Frosch (BMC Psychology ‘17). Asian and Asian American college students’ experiences of discrimination, wellbeing, and the role of sociocultural identities (Advisor: Heejung Park)
• Peiwen Tang (BMC Psychology ‘16). Parent-initiated and child-initiated communication in high school and college: A comparison between international and domestic students with Chinese and Korean backgrounds (Advisor: Heejung Park)
• Divya Shiv and Laura Marino (HC Psychology ‘16). Cultural influences on mutual and reciprocal social support (Advisor: Shu-wen Wang)
• Dayna Kim and Catherine Aronowitz (HC Psychology ‘15). Cultural differences in constructive capitalization responses (Advisor: Shu-wen Wang)
• Natalia Banfi and Caroline Broomfield (HC Psychology ‘15). Stress and social support seeking in International Asian, Asian American, and European American college students (Advisor: Shu-wen Wang)
• Catherine Brooks (HC Psychology ‘14). Social support interactions and processes across cultures (Advisor: Shu-wen Wang)
• Sunny Zheng (HC History ‘16) Image-ing Otherwise: the Ambivalent Politics of Asian American Visual Self-Representation in the post-1965 Era (Advisor: Andrew Friedman)
• Jeesoo Kang(HC Anthropology ’16) Self Making Through Hybridized Cultural Citizenship: Diasporic Korean American College Students and Their Engagement with Korean Popular Media  (Advisor: Ethiraj Dattatreyan)
• Kelsey Owyang (HC Sociology ‘16) Asian American Educational Experiences and the Malleable Persistence of Orientalism (Advisor: Matt McKeever)
• Neilay Shah (HC History ‘12). The Luce-Celler Act of 1946: White Nationalism, Indian Nationalism and the Cosmopolitan Elite (Advisor: Andrew Friedman)
• Yen Phan (HC History ‘12). Operation Babylift, Transnational Adoption, and the Sentimentalism of US and Vietnam Relations (1967-2002) (Advisor: Andrew Friedman)
• Meera Jayaraman (BMC ‘17), English department (Advisor: Jennifer Vargas) - on Asian American and Native American feminist literature (Bakirathi Mani consulted on this project)
• Rudrani Sharma (BMC ‘16), English department (Advisor: Jennifer Vargas and Bakirathi Mani ) - on South Asian American /African American feminisms
• Samuel Mori (SC History ‘16), on race, urban studies, and the making of Japantown, Los Angeles (advisor: Bruce Dorsey and Bakirathi Mani)
• Matthew Sueda (SC Japanese Language and Literature ‘17), on Issei (First-Generation) Japanese American Poetry in Hawai’i (Advisor: Will Gardner, with Bakirathi Mani consulting)
• Sasha Wijeyaratne (SC, Sociology/Anthropology ‘12) on Queer South Asian American Diasporic experience (Advisors: Bakirathi Mani and Maya Nadkarni)
• Akhi Thakurta (SC, Sociology/Anthropology ‘12), on Second-Generation South Asian American Embodiment of “Model Minority Myth” (Advisors: Bakirathi Mani and Maya Nadkarni)
• Jee Soo Kang (HC, ‘16) Asian/American Perspectives on Mental Health in the Bi-Co (Advisor: Alison Cook-Sather, project in Advocating Diversitycourse)
• Kelly Jung. Does Diversity Even Matter in Philosophy?:  Reflection and Analysis on the Lack of Women of Color in Philosophy Departments (Advisor: Alison Cook-Sather, project in Advocating Diversity course)