Subject librarians
Benjamin Stone
Regina Lee Roberts
About the Asian American Studies collections
Stanford Libraries collect widely in Asian American studies, acquiring materials in all formats to support teaching and research in this field at Stanford, as well as providing reference services and bibliographic instruction to students and faculty in the Asian American Studies Program and allied disciplines.
In the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Archives actively partner with the Asian American Research Center at Stanford to document Asian American research, programming, and student life and activism at Stanford. Special Collections also works closely with the Cantor Museum, the Department of Art & Art History, and the Bowes Art & Architecture Library to collect materials relating to the Asian American Art Initiative.
Featured collections
Ruth Asawa papers, 1926-2020
View the collectionThe papers of Japanese American artist and educator Ruth Asawa document her art and commissions as well as her involvement in arts education, civic art, and art administration. The collection contains correspondence, notes, memoranda, portfolios, exhibition notices and other publicity, articles and publications, design sketches and plans, photographs, and audiovisual media.
Wylie Wong collection of May's Studio photographs and San Francisco Chinatown ephemera, 1920-1999
View the collectionThe Wylie Wong collection contains photographs, prints, scrapbooks, negatives, posters, printed material, artwork, and ephemera relating to May's Photography Studio and Chinese and Asian American art, culture, and theater in San Francisco's Chinatown, from the early to mid twentieth century.
Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado archive, 1942-2018
View the collectionThe Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado archive consists of documents, correspondence, audiovisual, photographic, and other materials created by San Francisco-based Filipino American photographer Ricardo Alvarado (1914-1976). The photographic materials consist of prints, slides, and approximately three thousand negatives.