Charmaine Chua is an acting Associate Professor of Geography at UC Berkeley and is originally from Singapore. Her work concerns the global dimensions of Marxist political economy, postcolonial development, racial capitalism, and technological change, with regional interests in transpacific studies, Southeast Asia, and the US. Her research, teaching, and public engagement investigate socio-spatial reconfigurations of global capitalism from the late twentieth century to the present through a focus on...
Cathy Hu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her work sits at the intersection of punishment and society, social movements, and political sociology. Currently, she is working on a qualitative project examining criminal and racial justice activism in the Bay Area. This project focuses on the county criminal court as a new site of intervention for social movements from across the political spectrum. Before starting at Berkeley, Cathy worked as a research analyst at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center and received a BA in Sociology from Rice...
Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, focusing on health and mental health disparities in Asian American communities through a culturally-informed, intersectional lens. He directs the Digital Equity & Anti-Oppression Lab. His work examines (a) the mental health and behavioral impacts of intersectional anti-Asian racism (e.g., gendered racism) and prevention/intervention efforts, (b) gendered racial socialization and culturally-informed risk and protective factors, including promotion of empowerment and flourishing health, (c...
My research and teaching focus on relational race studies and the literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs. I follow an expansive idea of the Asian and Latinx United States as a specific nexus in global, multi-racial struggles with racial capitalism, empire, warfare, and extraction. In tandem, I pursue an expansive idea of imaginative culture as a powerful mode for grasping a multi-racial world and envisioning solidarities to transform it.
My first book, Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America (Stanford 2020), follows a form of transfictional storytelling across the...
