Application for HCAP's Asian American Communities Research Program (Summer 2024)

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APPLICATION due by May 15 @ 5pm. Applicants will be notified by May 23.

Hunter College AANAPISI Project (HCAP) is currently seeking Undergraduate Research Assistants (URAs) to conduct research with Asian American communities during summer 2024 (June to August). The project must be supervised by a faculty mentor. Students must be current Hunter undergraduates planning to graduate in Fall 2024 or later in order to be eligible to apply and participate. To receive the stipend, students must also be eligible to work in the U.S.* Eligible students will receive a $500 stipend when they complete the program.

Accepted URAs must meet the following program requirements:

Complete at least one writing class and one Asian American Studies class prior to starting the program.
Complete the Hunter CITI IRB Training if they will conduct research with human subjects. Take the “CITI HSR-Social and Behavioral Course” for undergraduates before any data collection. If accepted, students can consult with their faculty mentor on whether this applies to their research project.
Attend a 1-hour URA program orientation.
Have at least 1 check-in meeting per month with their faculty mentor.
Attend 1 mid-way check-in meeting with HCAP staff.
Work 2-3 hours per week on research activities during the summer session (June, July, August).
Produce a final project for HCAP’s website that distills their learnings from the research experience. The project is due mid-September. Format can range from scholarly research to creative works (e.g., policy briefs, PSA campaign, conference poster, research proposal, contribution to a journal article) to a reflection blog post (written or video).
Present their work. Options include speaking at a HCAP Asian American Studies Symposium event or presenting at an HCAP-enhanced Asian American Studies class.

⚠️ Please read the FULL program details here before you apply. ⚠️

*Please note: HCAP's URA program is not considered employment, but students need to be eligible to work in the U.S. in order to receive a stipend from HCAP.

Please contact Dr. Linh An (La1092[at]hunter.cuny.edu) if you have any questions.

First Name *

Last Name *

Email *

EMPL ID *

What is your major/minor? *

Expected Graduation Year
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To be eligible for this program, you must be a current Hunter undergraduate student, graduating Fall 2024 or later.

Expected Graduation Semester *

Are you minoring in Asian American Studies at Hunter? (Check all that apply). *

I am currently minoring in Asian American Studies

I am planning to minor in Asian American Studies

I am not an Asian American Studies minor

Required

Prior to the start of the program, will you have completed at least one composition / writing intensive class? *

Yes

Prior to the start of the program, will you have completed at least one Asian American Studies class? *

Yes

Which Asian American Studies class(es) have you completed? *

Please describe your research interest(s), including why you are interested in research about/with Asian American communities. Please describe how this program can contribute to your long term-goals. *

What previous research and community experiences and/or skills do you have (e.g. conducting interviews, SPSS, interning at AAPI community organization, fluent in a language other than English, etc.)? *

URAs will engage in research projects about/with Asian American communities. The project can fall into two tracks. Which option(s) would you be interested in (check all that apply)? *

Track 1: Faculty-Led: I want to work on faculty's existing research project

Track 2: Student-Led: I want to propose my own research project to faculty

Required

Please let us know if you: *

found a faculty mentor who has agreed to supervise you.

have a faculty mentor in mind, but have not reached out to them yet.

need HCAP’s help in identifying a faculty mentor.

Other:

Required

Faculty-Led Projects and Student-Led Projects

HCAP currently has several faculty who have an existing research project or willing to supervise an URA (see below). If you are interested in being considered as a URA for these projects, please indicate your top three choices and explain why you want to work on those projects/topics.

▶︎ Track 1: Faculty-Led Projects

Jackelyn Mariano

The Mission to End Modern Slavery (MEMS) has been researching trends in the foreign worker recruitment process in the healthcare industry during the COVID-19 pandemic to see possible flags for labor trafficking. This summer, the URA will be conducting similar investigations among domestic workers. The URA would work on writing literature reviews about labor trafficking among domestic workers in NYC.

▶︎ Track 2: Student-Led Projects

Yang Hu

Professor Hu is happy to mentor student-led projects that focus on all aspects of education of Asian Americans, Asian American activism, and immigrant Asian American experiences. She tries to get students to consider real world audiences and purposes as they carry out their projects, particularly media/arts-based projects, and other public-facing ones that could benefit Asian American communities.

Sherri Farber

Professor Farber is happy to mentor students interested in exploring digital primary source archival materials through publicly available digital collections, and those interested in integrating multimedia components into their research. While she has subject expertise in information literacy and subject experience in the fields of communication, journalism, writing, art history, and women and gender studies, she also have experience supporting students in most disciplines because her skill set and research approach is highly adaptable.

Christopher Lin

Professor Lin is happy to mentor students interested in exploring creatively led research projects. Past projects he has mentored have included poetry, digital literature, and photo essays exploring topics ranging from Asian diasporic experiences to food access in Asian immigrant communities.

Dorian Onifer

Professor Onifer is happy to mentor student-led projects that are literature-based, employ qualitative or archival research methods, or use primary sources in the fields of the social sciences, humanities, or law.

Debbie Sonu

Professor Sonu is happy to mentor student-led projects on education, schools, social justice, equity, identity, teachers, social studies, and childhood memories. The projects can be survey-based or use qualitative research methods.

Please elaborate on your progress in identifying a faculty mentor (outside of HCAP's mentors) and developing a research project. For example, did your professor agree to have you join their research project? Who is your professor? What is their project? If you'd like to propose your own project, what initial project ideas do you have? *

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