Biography Website Leslie Bow is fourth-generation Chinese American hailing from the Bay Area. She is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Dorothy Draheim Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of the award-winning, ‘Partly Colored’: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (New …
Biography Website Cindy I-Fen Cheng is a historian by training with an emphasis in feminist studies and critical theory. After taking her first Asian American Studies course as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles, she was hooked. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, hoping that one day she …
Biography Website Peggy Myo-Young Choy (M.F.A., 2006) is a Professor of Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in Asian dance (Korean and Javanese forms), Asian martial and vital energy arts, she teaches her contemporary Dance Noetics that encompasses Asian/Asian American dance, martial arts and vital energy thought, practice, and explorations into Afro-Asian fusion. Her …
Biography Lisa Ho was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley, CA; a bustling ethnic enclave known for its delicious and affordable Chinese cuisine. As a first-generation Chinese American, Lisa was motivated to better understand her community and its histories of struggle and triumph. Lisa completed a Master’s in Asian American Studies at University …
Biography Rachel Kuo (she/her/hers) writes, teaches, and researches race, feminist politics, social movements, and digital technology. Bringing together archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, her current monograph, Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity, demonstrates how technologies enhance and foreclose possibilities for political organization across uneven racial and class difference. She works closely with community partners in developing her …
Biography Website Lori Kido Lopez is Professor of Communication Arts and Associate Dean for Social Sciences in the College of Letters & Science. Her research examines how Asian Americans engage with media both as audiences and producers, addressing issues of representation, access, and community advocacy. Dr. Lopez is the author of Asian American Media Activism: …
Kong Pheng Pha is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator whose academic research, writing, and public scholarship explores the histories and politics of refugee migration, radical queer, feminist, and anti-racist social movements, activism, and community organizing, legacies of U.S. war and empire, minoritized student experiences in the modern university, and Asian American racial, gender, sexual, and queer …
Areas of Focus Medical anthropology, the body, critical refugee studies, ghosts and haunting, care, and chronic health/illness, biomedicine, science and technology Affilations Asian American Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin Biography I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Asian American Studies. My …