I am currently an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Broadly, my research focuses on Asian American family and kinship, racial formation and discourses of multiculturalism, and visual cultures. My current book project, Technologies of Family: Asian American Racial Formation and the Making of Kinship, uses interdisciplinary methods to theorize the role of technologies like government bureaucracy and photography in Asian American family formation from the 20th century to the present.

Previously, from 2020 to 2023, I was an assistant professor of Asian American Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. At UW-Madison, I also worked on the leadership team for the Ethics of Care Initiative and served as a member of the Steering Committee for the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. 

I received my Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University with a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. I also hold an M.Phil in American Studies from Yale University, and a B.A. in Social and Cultural Analysis from NYU with concentrations in Asian Pacific American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies.