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 …
Biography Paul Tran is the author of the debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling (Penguin, 2022). Their work appears in The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar, Good Morning America, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and the National …
Biography Website Timothy Yu is Professor of English and Asian American Studies. He is the author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 (Stanford University Press), which won the Book Award in Literary Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies, and the editor of Nests and Strangers: On Asian …