City of Baltimore Certificate of Recognition to Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) Initiative
May 31, 2023
At the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Reception held at City Hall on May 31, 2023, the City of Baltimore and Mayor Brandon Scott presented CRAAV with a Certificate of Recognition.
Professor Erin Chung (left) and Professor Yumi Kim (right) holding the Certificate of Recognition
Mayor Scott (left) presenting Certificate of Recognition to Kobi Khong (right), a Hopkins student and CRAAV representative
Critical Diaspora Studies in the Baltimore-Washington Region Amongst 40 D.C. Based Endeavours to Recieve Hopkins Nexus Award
May 2023
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Forty wide-ranging projects and programs to be anchored at Johns Hopkins University's new home in Washington, D.C., have been selected to receive funding support from the university's Nexus Awards program.
Critical Diaspora Studies in the Baltimore-Washington Region: H. Yumi Kim (KSAS), Erin Chung (KSAS), Stuart Schrader (KSAS), has been named a recipient of the Nexus Teaching award for 2023.
The Building Blocks of Mentorship
An Interview with Professor Erin Chung and Professor Yumi Kim
Spring 2023
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“A few years after H. Yumi Kim arrived as the Krieger School’s first modern Japan historian, eight people were killed in the 2021 mass shooting in an Atlanta spa, six of them women of Asian descent. Combined with the anti-Asian sentiment swirling around the COVID-19 pandemic, Kim knew she had to do something to build up her students, especially Asian ones.
She drew on the close relationships she already had with her formal mentor, Erin Chung, and Clara Han, professor in the Department of Anthropology. Together, they organized a roundtable on anti-Asian violence that drew 350 registrants, and went on to co-found the Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence initiative, or CRAAV.
Building that coalition accelerated the bond. “Working on CRAAV cemented everything that I had known about Erin all along, but also helped me see the ways in which Erin is the kind of mentor who provides an example of how projects can be executed, what needs to be taken under consideration. In a very organic way, I’m constantly learning from watching how she does things,” Kim says….”
“Behind the plexiglass: A corner store witnesses generations of love and loss in West Baltimore” by the Alissa Zhu
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An author, Alissa Zhu, at the Baltimore Banner covers the resilience of a Korean-American family and the impact their business has on the community.
Coverage on Professor Yumi Kim and her class’ research
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The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship published an article explaining the work done over the Fall 2022 semester to study the Asian community’s history in the Baltimore area, and the importance of their inquiries