The University of Washington's Project for Critical Asian Studies was the outcome of two generous Rockefeller Foundation Grants in the Humanities. From 1995-2001, under the direction of Ann Anagnost (Anthropology) and Tani Barlow (History and Women Studies), Critical Asian Studies focused on urgent questions of migration ethnicity, and area studies.

During the second grant period (2002-2006), the Project took up the timely effort to understand trauma in historical terms and in a restlessly re-regionalizing "Asia." Under the direction of Tani Barlow (History and Women Studies) and Madeleine Yue Dong (History and International Studies), the Project brought into analytical focus how fragments of Asia's traumatic past return as the region is pulled together by market, military, and geopolitical forces.

The Project for Critical Asian Studies completed its second funding cycle in June 2006. The Project is currently inactive but the intellectual community created over the past decade continues to engage and grapple with the critical themes raised and explored by the Project over its ten-year history. We invite you to explore the project's website as a record of the project and as a resource for scholars and activists engaged in Critical Asian Studies across the globe.