Originally published at: UPenn announces the Panda Express Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies | Boing Boing
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Spam Professor of Korean Studies?
Next up: the Hellmann’s Fellowship in White Studies
How about President Spam*?
*Hormel makes Spam
WTF are they thinking? Panda Express cannot possibly be paying Penn enough to make this a good idea.
… and the Lucky Charms™ Endowed Chair of Irish Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Lots of people consider themselves proud to be Rhodes Scholars, and old Cecil was a bit more objectionable than a fast food restaurant.
Still better than a Little Cesar’s Fellowship in Classics.
that’s just cheesy!
so it should be at the University of Wisconsin, no?
checks watch
Oh, is it the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, already?
Especially when said fast food chain is an Asian American success story in its own right: Timeline | Panda Restaurant Group
Although I admit, it has the same ring to as something like The Olive Garden Fellowship of Italian History (Which is not an Italian American anything: Olive Garden - Wikipedia)
This is what happens when you stop funding the humanities folks… Dumb bullshit like this.
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