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Zareen Taj earns her Ph.D., publishing the first autoethnography by a Hazara Afghan woman about the ongoing genocide of Hazara women under Taliban rule
This spring on Thursday evenings, students filled room 424 in the Fine Arts building for their Asian Diaspora in Motion: Media, Culture, Identity, and Activism class. At the head of the classroom...
Posted: May 5, 2026, 3:29 PM
Celebrating the history, evolution, and impact of K-pop culture as represented in ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
Abbie Fakoya is at the front of the room, smiling and encouraging over 40 UMBC faculty, staff, and students to follow her dance steps. Many of the attentive dancers were either new to the...
Posted: November 20, 2025, 9:42 AM
Who is “Fulbright material”? UMBC’s six 2025 – 2026 Fulbright U.S. Student Program recipients share their not-so-secret recipe for success
Alyssa Thomas is more of an “and” person than an “or” person. Growing up in a military family stationed in Florida, Thomas learned flexibility, a sense of curiosity, and a “Why not?” approach to...
Posted: October 7, 2025, 9:08 AM
How China uses second world war history in its bid to reshape the global order – podcast
The Conversation Weekly Podcast Interview with Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC. With Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un among 26 world...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 2:08 PM
After a lifetime of adapting her English to fit the occasion, Ivy Nguyen ’23 pursues further language education abroad with critical funding
When Ivy Nguyen moved to the United States from Vietnam in 2014, her high school peers struggled to understand the British English she had grown up speaking. As she found herself “lost in British...
Posted: September 9, 2025, 9:39 AM
Ayra Sangi, current senior, receives prestigious Freeman-ASIA study abroad scholarship
Ayra Sangi, an Asian studies senior, has received the 2025 Freeman-ASIA Award. The semester-long education abroad award funds U.S.-based undergraduates up to $5,000 to study abroad in East or...
Posted: June 20, 2025, 2:01 PM
US, Chinese warships’ near miss in Taiwan Strait hints at ongoing troubled diplomatic waters, despite chatter about talks
Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC. An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on...
Posted: June 9, 2023, 8:01 AM
Biden again indicates that US will defend Taiwan ‘militarily’ – does this constitute a change in policy?
Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC. President Joe Biden has – not for the first time – suggested that the U.S. would intervene “militarily” should China...
Posted: September 19, 2022, 4:07 PM
Why the big fuss over Nancy Pelosi’s possible visit to Taiwan?
Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn’t confirmed when – or even if – she is to visit Taiwan. Yet such is the sensitivity...
Posted: July 26, 2022, 4:35 PM
Biden on Taiwan: Did he really commit US forces to stopping any invasion by China? An expert explains why, on balance, probably not
Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC The White House has been left scrambling a little after President Joe Biden suggested on May 23, 2022, that the U.S....
Posted: May 24, 2022, 10:53 AM
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