Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans featured at UNLV for a joint book talk (2025).

Thank you to UNLV for having me for the event: “Unassimilable Humans: The Transformative Legacy of Asian America with Bianca Mabute-Louie and Corinne Mitsuye Sugino,” facilitated and organized by Dr. christina ong!

Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans featured on New Books Network Podcast (2025).

Thank you to Weishun Lu for inviting me to be interviewed on the New Books in Asian American Studies series with the New Books Network podcast! Available here + wherever you get your podcasts.

Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans featured on The Page 99 Test Blog (2025).

Thank you to Marshal Zeringue for featuring Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans on The Page 99 Test blog! To read the entry, please click here.

Corinne Sugino launches first book project: Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (November 2024).

Published with Rutgers University Press and available here. Thank you to everyone who attended the hybrid book launch!

Corinne Sugino Awarded the 2022 “Outstanding Dissertation Award” from the Asian Pacific American Caucus and Studies Division at the annual National Communication Association Conference.

For the dissertation, “Familiar Foreigners: Multicultural Rhetorics of Asian American Racialization.”

Corinne Sugino Awarded the 2022 “Outstanding Article Award” from the Asian Pacific American Caucus and Studies Division at the annual National Communication Association Conference.

For the article, “Foreign Intrustions: An Exploration of Asian American Historical Memory through Food-Related Discourses.”

Corinne Sugino Awarded a Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award for the 2021 NCA Convention

For the dissertation chapter, “Intimacy, Exoticism, and Asian/American women: Theorizing Multiculturalism as Fetish.” This award is presented annually to the top-ranked student paper at the NCA convention.

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Corinne Sugino Awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship

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Corinne Sugino receives an honorable mention for Pitt’s Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Tamara Horowitz Graduate Student Paper Prize.

For the dissertation chapter, “Multicultural Redemption and Gendered Racial Logics in Crazy Rich Asians.”

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Agora Virtual Speaker Series: Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Fellows

“Asian Americans for Action and the New York Asian American Movement in the 1960s and 1970s”

February 19th, 2021

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Agora Speaker Series: Graduate Student Pre-Conference Presentations

“Anti-blackness and Asian Victimhood in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard”

November 8th, 2019

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