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...
Aloha kākou! Kourtney Kawano(she/her) is a wahine ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian woman) from the village community of Nānākuli on the island of Oʻahu. She is Acting Assistant Professor at Berkeley School of Education.
A critical race resistance scholar and a graduate of Native Hawaiian culture-based schooling, Dr. Kawano embraces the proverb “ʻAʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi (all knowledge is not taught in the same school)” by weaving a variety of worldviews, conceptual framings, and qualitative...
Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor (Acting) 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...
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...
Ida Yalzadeh is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is an interdisciplinary historian who thinks about the relationship between race and empire and who engages in the fields of diplomatic history, Asian American Studies, and Critical Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) Studies, and more specifically, Iranian Diaspora Studies.
Her publications include articles in the journals American Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, and Diplomatic...
