We are pleased to share that graduate student, Haerin Jung has received the 2026 Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS) Award for Best Graduate Paper, for her paper titled, “Through Patterns: Yayoi Kusama’s Early Net Paintings.” Haerin is a first year Art History PhD student studying the realtionship between American abstract art and racial identity, with a particular focus on Asian American and Asian diasporic artists from the mid-twentieth century.
The Rice Asian Diasporic and Asian American Research (RADAAR) Collective in association with the Chao Center for Asian Studeis, "carves out a space that facilitates interdisciplinary study, scholarly exchange, and community partnerships at and beyond Rice on issues, experiences, and histories of racialized Asian/diasporic populations".