Corinne Mitsuye Sugino was recently awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year. Corinne is a currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication. She plans to use the fellowship to work on her dissertation, tentatively titled “Familiar Foreigners: Multicultural Rhetorics and Asian American Racialization” which focuses on the dynamics of Asian American inclusion/exclusion amidst an era of multiculturalism.