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Dr. Shirley Suet-ling Tang (鄧雪齡) is Professor of Asian American Studies in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development and College of Education & Human Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Shirley is a national leader in developing a model of curricular innovation for digital storytelling, pedagogies of wholeness, and AANAPISI-centered knowledge production. She has more than two dozen publications in print and received the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at UMass Boston in 2016. Her research, teaching and creative activities involve: (1) developing collaborative and participatory knowledge-building models, research methodologies, and ethnic studies pedagogies; (2) modeling and agenda-setting for AANAPISI/MSI research and development; and (3) community-based research and documentation, particularly in local Khmer, Vietnamese and Chinese diasporic communities. She is a co-Principal Investigator for UMass Boston’s five-year U.S. Department of Education AANAPISI Part F grant from 2016-2021, and has nearly 20 years of experience with digital storytelling in higher education institutions and community organizations. Her current priority projects focus on researching and developing methodologies for critical reflection, narrative construction and knowledge co-production in collaboration with minority-serving institutional partners including the Institute for New England Native American Studies, Bunker Hill Community College (an AANAPISI and HSI), Langston University (an HBCU in Tulsa) and others.
As co-principal investigator, co- investigator, or collaborator with partners at UMass Boston and other higher education institutions, Dr. Tang has contributed to garnering substantial funding to support research, curriculum development, community engagement and other projects from the U.S. Department of Education, National Endowment for Humanities, National Institutes for Health, Corporation for National and Community Service, Association of American Colleges and Universities, the Rockefeller Foundation, among other organizations.
Led by Dr. Tang, the Digital Storytelling in Asian American Studies Lab is a 16+-year commitment to student- and community-centered knowledge coproduction, research and documentation, and archival development. DST in AsAmSt productions contribute to training, community capacity building, and public policy advocacy. Her digital story videos co-produced with students have won first prize in the Boston Asian American Film Festival Short Waves: Short Film Competition (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018).
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AANAPISI KNOWLEDGE COPRODUCTION: Digital Storytelling in Asian American Studies
Suet-ling Tang, S., Jan 1 2023, Transformative Practices for Minority Student Success: Accomplishments of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions. Taylor and Francis, p. 131-149 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Hira Makes a Sound: Nepali Diasporic Worldviewing through Asian American Studies Praxis during the COVID-19 Anti-Asian Hate Pandemics
Ty, K. S., Tang, S. S. L., Gurung, P., Ty, A., Duong, N. & Kiang, P. N. C., Mar 2023, In: Religions. 14, 3, 422.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hira Makes a Sound: Sustaining High-Impact AANAPISI Innovation in an Asian American Studies Environment before and beyond the COVID-19 Anti-Asian Hate Pandemic
Kiang, P. N. C., Tang, S. S. L., Ty, K. S., Gurung, P., Ty, A. & Duong, N., Feb 2023, In: Education Sciences. 13, 2, 128.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Using narrative intervention for HPV vaccine behavior change among Khmer mothers and daughters: A pilot RCT to examine feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness
Lee, H., Kim, M., Cooley, M. E., Kiang, P. N. C., Kim, D., Tang, S., Shi, L., Thiem, L., Kan, P., Peou, S., Touch, C., Chea, P. & Allison, J., Apr 2018, In: Applied Nursing Research. 40, p. 51-60 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Khmer American Mothers' Knowledge about HPV and HBV Infection and Their Perceptions of Parenting: My English Speaking Daughter Knows More
Lee, H., Kiang, P., Tang, S. S., Chea, P., Peou, S., Semino-Asaro, S. & Grigg-Saito, D. C., Jun 2015, In: Asian Nursing Research. 9, 2, p. 168-174 7 p., 142.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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