{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/a80bee3b-9b53-4fb8-b003-a2049d47d148/manifest","label":"wrc22723_interviewee","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"wrc22723_interviewee"},{"label":"Creative Commons Attribution","value":["CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"]},{"label":"Accessibility","value":["This item may have accessibility enhancements created by AI, which means there might be misspellings and/or grammatical errors. If you are in need of further remediation, please fill out this form: https://library.rice.edu/requests/digital-collections-accessible-format-request-form"]},{"label":"Accessibility Features","value":["Enhanced description"]},{"label":"Date Digital","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:2025"},{"label":"Digitization Specifications","value":["This asset is born digital. It may not have a high-quality master version."]},{"label":"Special Collections","value":["Houston and Texas History","Houston Asian American Archive"]},{"label":"Repository","value":["Special Collections"]},{"label":"Format","value":["Image"]},{"label":"Format Genre","value":["oral histories"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["Asian Americans"]},{"label":"Rights Summary","value":["Restricted"]},{"label":"Rights","value":["The copyright holder for this material has granted Rice University permission to share this material online. It is being made available for non-profit educational use. Permission to examine physical and digital collection items does not imply permission for publication. Fondren Library’s Woodson Research Center / Special Collections has made these materials available for use in research, teaching, and private study. Any uses beyond the spirit of Fair Use require permission from owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns. See http://library.rice.edu/guides/publishing-wrc-materials"]},{"label":"Publisher","value":["Rice University"]},{"label":"Source","value":"Houston Asian American Archive, MS 0573, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University"},{"label":"Location","value":["Texas--Houston"]},{"label":"Language","value":["eng"]},{"label":"Enhanced Description","value":"A man with salt-and-pepper hair, brown eyes, and light stubble, smiling broadly. He's wearing a dark navy blazer over a light blue checked dress shirt, open at the collar. The background is plain white, typical of a professional headshot."},{"label":"Description","value":"Sunjay R. Devarajan was born in 1986 in Fort Worth, Texas. His parents immigrated from Madurai, in the Tamil Nadu region of South India, settling in Arlington after his father came to the University of Texas at Arlington for doctoral study in engineering, where he would spend his career as a professor. Devarajan grew up between two worlds: a predominantly white school environment during the week and a vibrant South Indian arts community in Dallas on weekends, where Tamil language, Carnatic music, and Hindu tradition defined his family life. He studied biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, earned his medical degree at Texas A&M College of Medicine, and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Georgetown University Medical Center, receiving the Edward Tsou Award for Humanities in Medicine in 2016. He trained in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he joined the faculty in 2019. His research centers on health disparities in cystic fibrosis, particularly among Black and Hispanic patients. Outside of medicine, he has sustained a lifelong commitment to music and fronts a Houston rock band, Little Victory. In this interview, Devarajan speaks about growing up as a Tamil American in Texas, the tension between assimilation and cultural pride, and how both shaped who he became. He discusses his equity-focused research, the damage of recent federal grant cuts to academic medicine, and the grueling experience of staffing an ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic. He also reflects on how music, multilingualism, and the humanities inform his relationships with patients, students, and his own sense of identity."},{"label":"Abstract","value":"This item is part of a collection that includes images and ephemera related to interviews conducted by the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA) since 2010."},{"label":"Time Span","value":["2020s"]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:21 M:11 Y:2025"},{"label":"People and Organizations","value":["Devarajan, Sunjay"]},{"label":"Title","value":"Sunjay Devarajan oral history interview"},{"label":"Interviewee(s)","value":["Devarajan, Sunjay"]}],"description":"Sunjay Devarajan oral history interview","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/a80bee3b-9b53-4fb8-b003-a2049d47d148/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Sunjay Devarajan oral history interview","height":3751,"width":2501,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/a80bee3b-9b53-4fb8-b003-a2049d47d148/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/a80bee3b-9b53-4fb8-b003-a2049d47d148","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":1024,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4]}]},"height":3751,"width":2501},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/a80bee3b-9b53-4fb8-b003-a2049d47d148/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/a80bee3b-9b53-4fb8-b003-a2049d47d148/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/a80bee3b-9b53-4fb8-b003-a2049d47d148/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/rice/iiif/logo"}