Academic Year 2008-2009
Trisha Cuison: "Take Care of Me: Expectations of Caregiving Across Asian American Generations."
Melissa Buno: "Filipino Americans in Politics: Leadership, Activism and Making a Change."
Academic Year 2007-2008
Christopher Ball, "Asian Americans and Affirmative Action."
Michael Berino, "Making the Invisible Visible: Filipino-Americans in the Political Arena."
Meredith Tanaka, "Asian American Women and the Double Eyelid Surgery."
Academic Year 2006-2007
Lindsay Agulto, "Calls from Home: A Comparative Study of the Influence of the Lives of Jose Rizal and Calos Bulosan on the Formation of Filipino and Filipino American Identity."
Cathy Dang, "The Haoles Keep Winning: The Racialization and Subordination of Native Hawaiians through the Legal System."
Reed Nakamura, "The Yellow Rap." Grantee, The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program.
Pamela Orfano, "Filipino-American Activism."
Academic Year 2005-2006
Brandi-Jean Nalani Balutski, “Life Rests in the Hawaiian Language.”
Bryant Verador, “Filipina-American Women in the Technology Sector”
Shalimar Zabanal, “Parent-Child Conflicts in the Filipino American Community.”
Academic Year 2004-2005
Marianne Gorospe, "Asian American Discrimination and Abercrombie & Fitch."
Petrice Oyama, "The Himeyuri Experience: Envisioning Okinawan American Women's Identity." Ph.D. Student, School of Gerontology, USC.
Trina Roldan, "The Balikayan Component: Filipino Americans and Tourism to the Philippines." M.B.A. Student, School of Business, LMU.
Krystle Swaving, "Dutch Indonesian Diaspora and Their Southern California Immigration."
Leezel Tanglao, Transparent Generation: Filipino Bridge Kids and Beyond." Reporter,
The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California.
Academic Year 2003-2004
Lisa Chong, “Politics of Asian Americans and Hate Crimes.” Administrative Director, Asian American Dispute Resolution Center, Los Angeles, California.
Joy E. Inouye, "Asian American Panethnicity and Hate Violence." Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona.
Academic Year 2002-2003
Vladimir Gaad, “Struggle for Equality: Filipino American Veterans and the Politics of Recognition.” Law student, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii.
Gerald Ngor, “Asian Americans and the History of Racial Exclusion.”
Jamie Sauler, "The Women Warrior and Bone: Finding Personal Identity through Cultural Understanding and Family Reconstruction."
Academic Year 2001-2002
Sela Foukimoana. "The Voices Unheard: Exploring the Opinion of Pacific Islanders in Light of Census 2000."
Gregory A. Pacificar. "A Minority From Within: Gay Filipino Americans Rethinking The Roles in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic."
Revi-ruth Enriquez. "The Stone Bursts with Telling: The Aesthetics of Obasan." J.D. Student, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University.
Shane Sasaki. "InvASIAN": The Rave Scene and Asian American Involvement."
Academic Year 2000-2001
Charity Robertson. "Visual Representations: Korean Americans and the Media."
C. Paul Valen. "Asian Investment Trends in United States Real Estate." Staff Counselor, WRAP Family Services, Los Angeles.
Academic Year 1999-2000
Amy Nawatani. "Sense of Place within the Japanese American Community." Ph.D. Student. School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Vicki Chiang. "Culture Conflicts and Mental Health Aid for Parents and Children in the Chinese American Family." Psy.D. Student. California Professional School of Psychology.
Stephen C. Gomez, "Language Lost: A Study of the Post-Colonial Effects on Filipino-American Ethnic Identity."
Gitanjali (Gina) Singh. "The Asian Indian Experience: History, Social Change, and the Future." M.A. Student, Asian American Studies Center, UCLA.