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: …
Biography As the Program Administrator, Jessica runs the daily operations of the Asian American Studies Program, but also works with many others to coordinate events and to keep the program running smoothly! Jessica completed her master’s degree in Southeast Asian History at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UW–Madison. Since working for the Asian …
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 …