Broadening Asian American Scholarship Across Penn.
The Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellowship, about to begin its third year, is expanding the breadth of courses offered through the Asian American Studies Program, while creating a pipeline for Asian American scholars.
The fellowship—the first of its kind in Asian American studies across the Ivy League—is addressing a pressing need across academia and on campus. Demand for classes and programming in this field has surged, according to David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, and ASAM faculty director. “It brings a whole new set of courses to our field and simultaneously introduces Asian American studies to multiple departments,” he says.