Karín Aguilar-San Juan
Election
Position
Name
Karín Aguilar-San Juan
Candidate statement
Karín Aguilar-San Juan is a second-generation Filipina-American. She authored Little Saigons: Staying Vietnamese in America and, with Frank Joyce, co-edited The People Make the Peace: Lessons from the Vietnam Antiwar Movement. She is working on her first film, “Rice: A Filipino Love Story,” a short cinematic essay about an organic rice farm in the Philippines. Her community work includes building relationships between Vietnam War veterans, antiwar activists, and Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants. She serves as Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and also as a Board of Directors for Clouds in Water Zen Center in St. Paul.
Listen up California and New York! We're not just lost in a cornfield somewhere in Lake Wobegon. Asian American Studies is alive and thriving in the Midwest, which spans from Chicago and Detroit to St. Paul and Madison and a lot of immensely huge campuses (OK, and some tiny and very inspiring ones) in between. As a displaced New Englander who has now lived in Minnesota for nearly two decades, I am happy to put myself in the running for Midwest representative. I've contributed at least twice maybe three times to the annual Roundtable on Midwest Asian American Studies (usually organized by the indefatigable Janet Carlson). I'm currently serving my first term on the Mentor Committee. I'm trying to revive Asian American Studies content on my own, admittedly elite, private liberal arts campus. We're living amidst the contradictions, polarities, and tensions that the 21st century Asian American experience brings--these are very exciting times!
Listen up California and New York! We're not just lost in a cornfield somewhere in Lake Wobegon. Asian American Studies is alive and thriving in the Midwest, which spans from Chicago and Detroit to St. Paul and Madison and a lot of immensely huge campuses (OK, and some tiny and very inspiring ones) in between. As a displaced New Englander who has now lived in Minnesota for nearly two decades, I am happy to put myself in the running for Midwest representative. I've contributed at least twice maybe three times to the annual Roundtable on Midwest Asian American Studies (usually organized by the indefatigable Janet Carlson). I'm currently serving my first term on the Mentor Committee. I'm trying to revive Asian American Studies content on my own, admittedly elite, private liberal arts campus. We're living amidst the contradictions, polarities, and tensions that the 21st century Asian American experience brings--these are very exciting times!