Stanley Thangaraj
Election
Position
Name
Stanley Thangaraj
Candidate statement
Inaugural James E. Hayden Chair for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice at Stonehill College.
Bio:
Stanley Thangaraj is a socio-cultural Anthropologist and a scholar of Asian American Studies with a focus on race, immigrants, refugees, and the US South. Thangaraj received his PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and graduate certificate in Asian American Studies from the University of Illinois. He is the inaugural James E. Hayden Chair for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice at Stonehill College. He employs Asian Americanist Critique, Queer of Color Critique, Women of Color Feminism, and Critical Theories of Race to his work on South Asian America, Asian American Sporting Cultures, and Kurdish America. Thangaraj is the author of Desi Hoop Dreams (NYU Press, 2015) and is currently working on his book manuscript tentatively titled Placing Kurdish America: The Lives of Culture, Pleasure, and Desire. He has won mentoring awards and teaching awards at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, City College of New York, and Stonehill College. Thangaraj has also organized various conferences to support junior scholars of color.
Candidate Statement:
If given the chance to run for the President of the Association for Asian American Studies, I will bring intersectional scholarship, teaching, and mentorship in the service of social justice. I am eligible as a result of my dedication to mentoring junior scholars of color, my scholarship on South Asian American, Asian American sporting cultures, and Kurdish America, and because of my work in creating an Ethnic Studies major at a small liberal arts college. My vision as the possible President of the Association for Asian American Studies would be to foster an experience of Ethnic Studies on the broadest terms that puts AAAS in conversation with and building community with Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Latinx Studies. We should not feel alone and we need each other more than ever. With the violence wrecking our worlds, I will dedicate myself to creating these communities of care and love while expanding horizons for scholarship, being aware of the precarities we are managing, supporting members in finding sustainable and enjoyable intellectual worlds, and being explicitly engaged with our communities outside the academy. I promise to practice leadership through care, humility, and love.
Bio:
Stanley Thangaraj is a socio-cultural Anthropologist and a scholar of Asian American Studies with a focus on race, immigrants, refugees, and the US South. Thangaraj received his PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and graduate certificate in Asian American Studies from the University of Illinois. He is the inaugural James E. Hayden Chair for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice at Stonehill College. He employs Asian Americanist Critique, Queer of Color Critique, Women of Color Feminism, and Critical Theories of Race to his work on South Asian America, Asian American Sporting Cultures, and Kurdish America. Thangaraj is the author of Desi Hoop Dreams (NYU Press, 2015) and is currently working on his book manuscript tentatively titled Placing Kurdish America: The Lives of Culture, Pleasure, and Desire. He has won mentoring awards and teaching awards at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, City College of New York, and Stonehill College. Thangaraj has also organized various conferences to support junior scholars of color.
Candidate Statement:
If given the chance to run for the President of the Association for Asian American Studies, I will bring intersectional scholarship, teaching, and mentorship in the service of social justice. I am eligible as a result of my dedication to mentoring junior scholars of color, my scholarship on South Asian American, Asian American sporting cultures, and Kurdish America, and because of my work in creating an Ethnic Studies major at a small liberal arts college. My vision as the possible President of the Association for Asian American Studies would be to foster an experience of Ethnic Studies on the broadest terms that puts AAAS in conversation with and building community with Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Latinx Studies. We should not feel alone and we need each other more than ever. With the violence wrecking our worlds, I will dedicate myself to creating these communities of care and love while expanding horizons for scholarship, being aware of the precarities we are managing, supporting members in finding sustainable and enjoyable intellectual worlds, and being explicitly engaged with our communities outside the academy. I promise to practice leadership through care, humility, and love.