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Association for Asian American Studies 2026

April 02, 2026 / Honolulu, HI

We look forward to meeting authors, editors, and friends of the Press in person at the 2026 AAAS conference!

Courtney Berger is joining you on-site in Honolulu for AAAS 2026!! Browse new Asian American studies books and journal issues at our table or in the list below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Through May 14, 2026, use code AAAS26 to save 40% on all books and journal issues when you order on our website. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code from our UK partner, Mare Nostrum Group.

Customers in Canada can order through the University of Toronto Press.

To connect with any of our editors, view their specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our online submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Cover of Settler Militarism features a dark-hued piece of geometric artwork. A beige triangular shape repeats and tessellates across a dappled black-and-brown background.
Settler Militarism

World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire

Juliet Nebolon

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Winner of the 2026 Award for History, AAAS

Cover of The Movies of Racial Childhoods features a painting in which a child swims through tumultuous waves colored in reds, blues, and whites. The child's eyes are closed, and one arm is raised over its head, mid-swimming-stroke.
The Movies of Racial Childhoods

Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

Celine Parreñas Shimizu

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Winner of the 2026 Media, Performance, and Visual Studies Award, AAAS

Cover of All of Us or None features a multi-media graphic which depicts a monochrome landscape photo of watchtowers in a field. In the foreground, a woman pours a cascade of water dotted with colorful frogs, flowers, and butterflies from a vase.
All of Us or None

Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession

Monisha Das Gupta

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Co-Winner of the 2026 Award for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies, AAAS

Cover of dear elia has a light blue background, with a photograph in the center of the page. The photograph depicts a young girl in a floral dress and pink shoes. She holds a stick and walks down an empty path.
dear elia

Letters from the Asian American Abyss

Mimi Khúc

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Co-Winner of the 2026 Award for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies, AAAS

Cover of The Promise of Beauty features a collage-style piece of art. Orange, yellow, and pink flames burst from a spray of roses. Monarch butterflies surround the fire.
The Promise of Beauty

Mimi Thi Nguyen

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Honorable Mention, 2026 Award for Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies, AAAS

The cover art is a detail from the installation "Biography of a thought" by Tenzing Rigdol, a vibrant, colorful piece with stylized waves in various shades of blue and swirling, multicolored clouds.
Ocean, as Much as Rain

Stories, Lyrical Prose, and Poems from Tibet

Tsering Woeser

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Cover of Insurgent Visions features a bold, abstract illustration in red, pink, black, and teal tones. Stylized human faces and a human hand overlap with patterned abstract shapes in a collage-like composition.
Insurgent Visions

Feminism, Justice, Solidarity

Chandra Talpade Mohanty

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Cover of Torn is black and white and features a double exposed photograph of a person holding two thin long tubes up to each eye.
Torn

Asian/white Life and the Intimacy of Violence

Anna M. Moncada Storti

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Cover of Domesticating Brown has painted patches of browns and creams. A semitransparent photograph of a family with young children is overlayed.
Domesticating Brown

Movements of Racial Imagination

Christopher B. Patterson

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Brutal Fantasies

Imagining North Korea in the Long Cold War

Christine Kim

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Cover of Racial Beings shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type.
Racial Beings

Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms

Michelle N. Huang

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On the right side of the cover Spoiled, a dramatic photograph shows a woman with her head tilted back. A long stream of honey pours into the woman's open mouth from above. Intense lighting highlights the woman's features.
Spoiled

Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair

Summer Kim Lee

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Cover of Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun features a room with cylinders covering the floor and floating casting shadows on the walls. There appears three solid overlapping circles aligned vertically and centered on the cover in golden yellow, dark
Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun

An Elegy

Crystal Mun-hye Baik

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Cover of Racial Care features an illustration of a dark starry sky background featuring a large, glowing pink rectangular frame in the center.
Racial Care

On Asian American Suffering and Survival

James McMaster

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Cover of The Violence of Protection features a textured print of lush grass with two fences extending from the left and right. There is a small orange chair in front of each fence.
The Violence of Protection

Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women

Lee Ann S. Wang

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A Thousand Paper Cuts

US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

Anjali Nath

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Cover of Cleansing the Nation features a photograph of people gathered holding red and white flags. There is smoke around the crowd and a dark cloud of smoke rising in the background.
Cleansing the Nation

India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender

Raka Shome

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Insecurities of Expulsion

Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda

Hundle, Anneeth Kaur

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Cover design of Concrete Colonialism is minimalist with a black background covering about 80% of the space. There is a fragment of a black-and-white image resembling a torn document or film negative, showing a neoclassical building and handwritten no
Concrete Colonialism

Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines

Diana Jean S. Martinez

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Cover artwork of Transpacific Nonencounters depicts human and insect figures in blue on a background of yellow irregular squares edged in red.
Transpacific Nonencounters

Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico

Andrea Mendoza

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The cover is a a blue and coral pink duotone of a woman wearing a leotard that depicts a mushroom cloud. She is posing with her hands up and her mouth open in joy. The blue and pink are inverted to create circles around her.
Atomic Bombshells

How Plastics Shaped Postwar Bodies

Isabelle Held

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Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black.
Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures

Kathi Weeks

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Cover of Indigenomicon features a stylized, pixelated landscape that transitions into a painted forest scene. A river runs along the bottom, where a figure sits in a canoe. In the background, a wooden palisade, tall trees, and two stork-like birds in
Indigenomicon

American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Jodi A. Byrd

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The cover is a duotone of teal green and a berry red. A crowd is gathered with their arms wrapped around each other. In the background hung on a building is an art piece showing two figures and text in Korean.
The Minjung Art Movement

Decolonization and Democracy in South Korea

Sohl Lee

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Cover of Everyday Erotics features a black-and-white cover illustration on a blue background depicts the backs of two women with short hair, one turned slightly towards the other with an arm across her back.
Everyday Erotics

Older Chinese Women and Same-Sex Desire

Denise Tse-Shang Tang

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Unruly Comparison

Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

Alvin K. Wong

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Cover of Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy features a skyline with trees and the outline of a large industrial looking object against a grainy dark blue night sky. The black object has two red orbs on it evoking eyes.
Ozu and the Ethics of Indeterminacy

Daisuke Miyao

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The cover photograph depicts two people dressed simply in black and white seated at a metal table and chairs in the courtyard of a glass and concrete building.
In the Mood for Texture

The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Arnika Fuhrmann

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Cover of Land of Famished Beings features a photograph, taken by the author, of dried betel nuts in a plastic bag. The bag also contains what appear to be green pods. A finger belonging to a person with Black skin points at the dried nuts.
Land of Famished Beings

West Papuan Theories of Hunger

Sophie Chao

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Cover of Medicines That Feed Us features a vibrant, detailed illustration of various plants and flowers in shades of green, yellow, orange, blue, and red.
Medicines That Feed Us

Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Stacey A. Langwick

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Cover of Ice Geographies features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt titled Beluga Hunting. It depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.
Ice Geographies

The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic

Jen Rose Smith

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Winner of the 2026 CAPE Outstanding Book Award, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers

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Journal of Asian Studies

Joseph S. Alter, editor

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The flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies

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Prism

Theory and Modern Chinese Literature

Zong-qi Cai, editor

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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture

Xingpei Yuan and Zong-qi Cai, editors

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Recent special issue: "Rethinking Authorship and Agency: Women and Gender in Late Imperial China"

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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Manan Ahmed, Rosie Bsheer, and Steven Pierce, editors

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Monsoon

Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim

Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa and Jeremy Prestholdt, editors

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Trans Asia Photography

Deepali Dewan, Yi Gu, and Thy Phu, editors

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Open-Access Publication

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Journal of Korean Studies

Paul Y. Chang, Yumi Moon, and Dafna Zur, editors

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Archives of Asian Art

Sarah E. Fraser, editor

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Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies

Ross King, editor

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Open-Access Publication