With a year-long hard work, the first issue ofJournal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 12.2) under Huping Ling’s editorship is due out in June, and Truman State University has been prominently placed on the journal’s webpage as well on the front cover of every printed issue. Below are the credit line about Truman on the journal’s webpage and the link to the journalhttp://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/editorial.html

Journal of Asian American Studies
Editors and Editorial Board

Executive Editor

Huping Ling, Truman State University

Reviews Editor

Philip Q. Yang, Texas Women’s University

Editorial Board

Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College
Mong-Ho Jung, University of Washington
Pei-te Lien, University of California at Santa Barbara
Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Anthony Peffer, Castleton State College
Allan Punzalan Isaac, Rutgers University
Lavina Shanker, Bates College
Larry Shinagawa, University of Maryland at College Park
Min Hyoung Song, Boston College
Linda Trinh Vo, University of California at Irvine
Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawaii at Manoa

The EDITORS AND PUBLISHER wish to acknowledge with gratitude the encouragement of the Truman State University in providing support for Journal of Asian American Studies.

Jerry Hirsch, author of Portrait of America, was interviewed by NPR’s On the Media about the Federal Writers’ Project. His book is also quoted in the January 19, 2009 issue ofTime magazine in the article “Will Act for Food.”

Dan Mandell’s new book Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 was a finalist for the American Historican Association (AHA)’s Littleton-Griswold Award in Legal History.

The Association of Asian American Studies has named Huping Ling, Professor of History, Editor-Elect and, in April 2009, Executive Editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS), the premier refereed journal in the field of Asian American Studies, after a careful process of nomination and selection.

The academic discipline of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies is a thriving and vibrant field of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and activism. There are Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies programs and departments in over 50 institutions nationwide, from public universities to private institutions. JAAS is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and is in the 25% of 300 journals on the electronic database Project Muse, in terms of the number of times accessed, indicating the strong presence of the journal in shaping the discipline. As the official publication of the organization, JAAS is a prestigious journal with an acceptance rate of 10 percent. The publication of an article in the journal often leads to book contract and tenure/promotion for faculty members. The editors have been selected from leading senior scholars with significant contributions to the field. Ling has authored and edited ten books on Asian American studies.

Professor Rick Bonus, President of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), has written a thank you letter to Dr. Douglass Davenport, the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, and Professor Steven Reschly, Chair of the History Department, to express the Association’s deep appreciation for their support of Professor Ling. “We know how crucial it is for Professor Huping Ling to be supported by her institution as she assumes this major professional responsibility, and we thank you for your trust in her. Professor Huping Ling is a highly respected scholar; our confidence in her is reflected in the unanimous approval by the executive board of the association of her impressive application for the position of Editor-Elect of the journal. Truman State University’s support of Professor Ling’s service to JAAS enlarges the reach of our institutional network.”

Daniel R. Mandell, Truman State University, has been selected by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) to receive the inaugural Lawrence W. Levine Award, which is given annually for the best book in American cultural history.  On Saturday, March 29, OAH President Nell Irvin Painter and President-Elect Pete Daniel will present the award in New York City during the 101st Annual Meeting of the Organization.

Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 (The Johns Hopkins University Press) examines how cultures survive–how culture is contested, revised, transformed and passed on. It looks specifically at New England Indian tribes and their efforts to maintain cultural traditions and political identities and rights in the volatile, aggressive American marketplace from the early Republic through Reconstruction. Mandell uses a broad range of sources to establish how Native Americas used the resources American culture presented–commerce, religion, politics, fiction, folklore–to maintain a sense of distinctiveness and tradition. The book offers a synthetic account not just of Native American survival, but of the ways people negotiate power. The committee admired the depth and extent of research, and the humanist sensibility that marked the writing. In its emphasis on subaltern people’s struggling in myriad ways to create a culture that gave full range to their sense of who they were, Mandell’s book most clearly reflects the legacy of Lawrence W. Levine.

Founded in 1907, OAH is the largest learned society and professional organization dedicated to the teaching and study of the American past. OAH promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourages wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners of history. Members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors; students; precollegiate teachers; archivists, museum curators, and other public historians employed in government and the private sector.

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