About
Unfound is Princeton University's Journal of Asian American Studies. We publish one volume each academic year.
We are sponsored by Princeton's Program in American Studies and Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding. Our faculty advisor is Professor of English Anne Cheng.
For the most recent volume of the journal and previous volumes, please visit the Archive page.
We are sponsored by Princeton's Program in American Studies and Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding. Our faculty advisor is Professor of English Anne Cheng.
For the most recent volume of the journal and previous volumes, please visit the Archive page.
Mission Statement
Unfound was established in the spring of 2014 by members of Princeton’s Asian American Students Association (AASA). It represents a hallmark of the wave of Asian American activism at Princeton that began to pick up steam in the 1970s and that has finally brought about the formation of a Certificate in Asian American Studies beginning in the fall of 2018.
Today, Unfound continues to build upon this revolutionary legacy, working to provide a forum for undergraduates in the US and abroad to contribute to the burgeoning field of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.
The title Unfound refers to the ambiguities of the Asian American experience. “Unfound,” in its most basic sense, refers to something elusive. But the word connotes deeper, emotional meaning upon reexamination. Unfound suggests that there remains something to be discovered. Unfound implies that someone has tried and tried again to find what she has been looking for, only to come up short. Caught between two identities, the Asian American seeks to carve out her own place in the greater American narrative. Asian American studies and Unfound seek to create a space where what is presently unfound can be discovered.
Today, Unfound continues to build upon this revolutionary legacy, working to provide a forum for undergraduates in the US and abroad to contribute to the burgeoning field of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.
The title Unfound refers to the ambiguities of the Asian American experience. “Unfound,” in its most basic sense, refers to something elusive. But the word connotes deeper, emotional meaning upon reexamination. Unfound suggests that there remains something to be discovered. Unfound implies that someone has tried and tried again to find what she has been looking for, only to come up short. Caught between two identities, the Asian American seeks to carve out her own place in the greater American narrative. Asian American studies and Unfound seek to create a space where what is presently unfound can be discovered.
