Mellon Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies, Department of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University
College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Sophia University, Institute of Comparative Culture, Visiting Researcher
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Portfolios: Women’s & Gender Studies and Asian American Studies
M.A. Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Certificate in Global Affairs, Center for Global Affairs, New York University
B.A. Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University
Concentration in Literary Theory and Gender Studies
S. Craig Watkins, Andres Lombana Bermudez, Alexander Cho, Jacqueline Vickery, Vivian Shaw, and Lauren Weinzimmer. The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality. New York, NY: New York University Press.
Reviewed in: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Journal of Children and Media, Social Force
Kuo, Rachel,* Amy Zhang,* Vivian Shaw, Cynthia Wang. “#Feminist Antibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus.” Social Media and Society 6.4. DOI: 10.1177/2056305120978364.
“Strategies of Ambivalence: Cultures of Liberal Antifa in Japan.” Radical History Review 20.3.
“‘Extreme Pressure’: Gendered Negotiations of Violence and Vulnerability in Japanese Anti-Racism Movements.” Critical Asian Studies 51.4. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2019.1663544
“Anti-racism Before and After Fukushima,” in David Slater and Patricia Steinhoff. (Eds). Alternative Politics: Ethnographic Studies of Activist Cultures and Social Movements in Contemporary Japan. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
“‘We Are Already Living Together’: Race, Collective Struggle, and the Reawakened Nation in Post-3/11 Japan” in Chih-ming Wang and Daniel PS Goh. (Eds). Precarious Belongings: Affect and Nationalism in Asia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Part of the Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches series, edited by Koichi Iwabuchi.
“Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar. By CHIKA WATANABE. Honolulu: University Hawai’i Press, 2019.” Journal of Asian Studies 79.4.
“Asian Immigrant and Asian American Families during COVID-19,” Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship, Harvard University (with Professor Jason Beckfield)
“AAPI Businesses and Workers during COVID-19: Recovery, Resilience, and Loss,” The Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative Grant, Harvard University (with Professor Jason Beckfield).
“Asian Immigrant and Asian American Families during COVID-19,” COVID-19 Quick Response Research Grant, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder.
“Asian American and Pacific Islander Businesses and Workers During COVID-19: Recovery, Resilience, and Loss,” Quick Response Grant, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder
“Social impacts of COVID-19 on Asian American and Pacific Islander Families and Mental Health,” CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research Grant, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Graduate Fellowship, Kobe College Corporation Japan Education Exchange
“Doctoral Dissertation Research: Community Organization After Major Disasters,” Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Social and Economic Sciences (SES) #1519206, National Science Foundation
Fellowship for North American and European Researchers, Social Science Research Council and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Grant-in-Aid, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Japanese Language Program for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields award, Japan Foundation
Alumni Development Award, Critical Language Scholars Program, US Department of State
Critical Language Scholarship in Japanese, Critical Language Scholars Program, US Department of State
Atomic Age II Symposium Scholarship, University of Chicago and DePaul University
Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health Grant #H49MC04479, Healthy Start: Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities, Health Resources and Services Administration, Department Health and Human Services (Administrative support)
Project completion grant, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Project completion grant, “Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Graduate Student Professional Development Award, University of Texas at Austin (Awarded four times)
Graduate Dean’s Prestigious Fellowship Supplement, University of Texas at Austin Graduate School
Mitsubishi Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Student Assembly Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin
Ethnography Lab Fellowship, University of Texas Department of Sociology
Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology
Graduate Student Travel Grant for East Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin Center for East Asian Studies
Intellectual Entrepreneurship Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin
Ethnography Lab Graduate Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology
Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Doctoral Fellowship (Alternate)
“Animating Life” Summer Program Fellow, Kadokawa Foundation and the University of Tokyo
Summer Graduate Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, Bernard and AudreRapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Fulbright US Student Program (Alternate)
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory Scholar
Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize, Kundiman (Finalist)
“Anti-Asian Racism and Racial Justice,” with Susanna Park, ClearView Healthcare Partners
“Covid-19 and AAPI Communities, a conversation on disasters and citizenship,” Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Williams College (Virtual).
“The Harvard Syllabus: Asian Americans and the Politics of Affirmative Action,” Doyle Seminar Program, Berkley Center, Georgetown University (Virtual).
“Material Witnesses and the Politics of Peace,” Restorying Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Lesley University (Virtual).
“Pandemic Risks: Asian American and Pacific Islander Life at Work and Home during COVID-19,” with Susanna Park, Florida State University (Virtual).
Asia in Depth Lecture Series, Georgetown University (Virtual).
“Feminist Antibodies,” with Rachel Kuo, Duke University (Virtual).
“COVID-19 and the Asian American Pacific Islander Community,” with Christina Ong, United States Department of Commerce (Virtual).
Asian Culture Day, Invited Talk, Newton North High School. Newton, MA.
“Post-Disaster Citizenship: Racial Politics after Fukushima,” Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Sociology. Blacksburg, VA.
“Post-disaster Citizenship: The Politics of Race, Belonging, and Activism after Fukushima,” Kobe College. Kobe, Japan. Cancelled due to natural disaster.
“Stop Anti-Asian Hate and Solidarity Against Racism,” WCM 3rd Annual Diversity Week, Weill Cornell Medicine Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Cornell University (Virtual).
“Critical Conversations: Anti-Asian Racism and Violence in America,” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Brown University (Virtual).
“Hate in the Time of Covid,” Cornell University (Virtual).
“AAPI Unity: The Power of We,” 2020 National Civic Leadership Forum (Virtual).
“Smart and Inclusive Cities,” SHS Webinar Series: Inclusion in the time of COVID-19 UNESCO (Virtual).
“Racism and COVID-19,” Department of Sociology, City University of London (Virtual).
“(Un)belonging in Times of Crisis: Activism and Exclusion after 3/11,” Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference. Shanghai, China. (Spotlight Panel).
“Anti-Asian Racism and the Spectrum of Racialized Comparison,” presented with Susanna Park. Association for Asian American Studies (Virtual).
“Sexual Violence and the Challenges of Intersectionality: Cases in Japan,” presented with Kanoko Kamata. American Sociological Association (Virtual).
“Decolonizing the Teaching of Asian American Studies.” Association for Asian American Studies. Washington, DC. Postponed due to COVID-19.
“Extreme Pressure”: Gendered Negotiations of Violence and Vulnerability in Japanese Antiracism Movements.” American Sociological Association. New York, NY.
“Gendered Activism after Disaster: Race, Masculinities, and Vulnerabilities in Post-3/11 Movements.” Association for Asian Studies. Denver, CO.
“Crisis Activism: Race, Gender, and Mobilization in the Aftermath of Disasters.” American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA.
“Post-Disaster Citizens in a Transnational World: Racism, Security, and Activism in Japan.” Association for Asian American Studies. San Francisco, CA.
“Proving ‘Real” Harm’ An Analysis of Gender and Race/Ethnicity in the Regulation of Internet-based Hate Speech in Japan.” The International Workshop for Hate Speech in Asia and Europe. Kyoto, Japan.
“‘No Hate Under the Rainbow’: Negotiating Queer Politics within Anti-Racism Movements in Japan.” National Women’s Studies Association. Baltimore, MD.
“Hate Speech Online and the Fight for Legal Protection: The Case of Japan.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
“Caring Movements: Anti-racism Approaches to an Apathetic State.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting. Portland, OR.
「『エスノグラフィー』とは何か？⽇本社会運動におけるエスノグラフィーにつ いて.⽂化・学術専⾨家研修終了⽣発表会. Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute Kansai. Osaka, Japan.
“‘Crush the Racists!’: Masculinity, surveillance, and the body in Japan’s contemporary anti-racism movement.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA
「反原発運動と反⼈種差別社会運動において、『シングルイシュー』という考え⽅」. ⽂化・学術専⾨家研修終了⽣発表会. Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute Kansai. Osaka, Japan.
“Not ‘Real Japanese’: Post-Disaster Social Crisis, Social Movements, and the rise of Nationalism after 2011.” All I Need Is Love? Nation, Affect and Aversion in a Post-Imagined-Community Asia (International Workshop). Taipei, Taiwan.
“Protests and Counter Protests: Differences in Anti-racism and Anti-nuclear Collective Action in Post-disaster Japan.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago.
「3.11 以降の反原発運動と反⼈種差別運動」⽂化・学術専⾨家研修後期発表会. Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute Kansai. Osaka, Japan.
“Bikini Abject: Pacific Island Nuclear Testing as a Technology of Exception.” American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA.
“Digital Vocations: Race, Capital, and Creativity in the Information Economy.” Media Sociology Preconference, American Sociological Association. Oakland, CA.
“Energy and Identity: Women, History, and Anti-nuclear Social Movements in Japan,” International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology. Yokohama, Japan.
“Peace ‘without Race’: Global Peace as a formation of post-racial ideology in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.” Critical Ethnic Studies Association 2013 Conference. Chicago, IL.
“Trauma as ‘Post-Race’: Material Witnesses and the Politics of Nuclear Trauma in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.” Asian Studies Conference-Japan. Tokyo, Japan.
“Atomic Memory: The Transnational Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Trauma in the Museum.” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA.
“Racism, Regret, Reparations: The public apology as performed politics.” Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV.
“Racism, Regret, Reparations: The public apology as performed politics.” The National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Meeting. Claremont, CA.
“Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the US,” moderator, Harvard University, Asia Center (Virtual).
“Processing the Pandemic: The AAPI COVID-19 Project, Findings, Methods, Community,” a two-part workshop, Harvard University, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (Virtual).
“Asian Americans and Affirmative Action,” Guest Lecture for Asian Americans and Race class, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Irvine (Virtual).
“Post-Disaster Citizenship: Racial Politics after Fukushima,” Harvard University, Department of Sociology, Contemporary Ethnography and Inequality Workshop. Cambridge, MA.
“Sociology and Climate Change: a panel discussion.” Harvard University, Department of Sociology. Cambridge, MA.
“AAPImmigration: A Neglected Narrative,” invited panel for Harvard College Act on Dream, Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association, Harvard Asian American Womxn’s Association, Harvard TAPAS, Harvard Vietnamese Association. Cambridge, MA.
“Japan’s Antiracism Movements: Gendered Negotiations of Violence and Vulnerability.” Harvard University, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center on International Affairs. Cambridge, MA.
“Hate Speech and the Gendered Burden of Care: Anti-Discrimination Politics in Japan.” Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016. Tokyo, Japan.
「反原発運動と反⼈種差別社会運動において、『シングルイシュー』という考え⽅」. ⽂化・学術専⾨家研修終了⽣発表会. Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute Kansai. Osaka, Japan.
「3.11 以降の反原発運動と反⼈種差別運動」⽂化・学術専⾨家研修後期発表会. Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute Kansai.
“The Digital Edge: Digital Inequalities and the Future of Learning.” Department of Radio- Television Film 2013-2014 Colloquium. Invited presentations with S. Craig Watkins, Alex Cho, Andres Lombano-Bermudez. Austin, TX.
“Atomic Memory: The Political Aesthetics of Race, Gender, and Trauma in the Museum.” Fall 2011 Sociology Brownbag Series, Austin, TX.
“Childbirth Classes: Cycle 1-4 September 15, 2009 – April 27, 2010,” Healthy Start Brooklyn Advisory Board Meeting. Brooklyn, NY.
“Public Health Online,” Brooklyn District Public Health Office Monthly Meeting. Brooklyn, NY.
Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Refereed Roundtable Session: Race & Politics, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada.
Sociology of Memory: New and Classical Conceptualizations of Memory, Personal or Commodity, Public or Private? Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Reno, NV (Invited).
Student Forum Roundtable Session: Gender and Culture. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV.
Asian American & Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander COVID-19 Policy & Research Team
Member, Asian American Studies Working Group (Boston-area universities)
Sociology Senior Thesis Reader
Member and Ad Hoc Co-Facilitator, Contemporary Ethnography and Inequality Workshop, Department of Sociology
Member, Culture and Analysis Workshop, Department of Sociology
Organizer, Social Movements in Asia Working Group
Member, Politics and Social Change Workshop, Department of Sociologyy
Graduate Coordinator, Race & Ethnicity Student and Faculty Group, Department of Sociology
Editorial Board Member, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice Working Paper Series
Column Editor, FLOW, Department of Radio-Television-Film
Managing Editor, Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines
Intellectual Entrepreneurship Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program, The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Student Representative, Human Rights Section
Graduate Student Representative, Asia/Asian America Section
Paper Reviewer, Student Forum Advisory Board
Mobilization, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies
Workshop organizer, “Inequality, Labor, and Migration in East Asia Through the Prism of Global Pandemic Virtual Workshop,” co-organized with Tristan Ivory and Sujin Eom. Cornell University (Virtual).
Panel organizer, “Mobilizing Crisis: Race, Militarization, and Labor in Transnational Contexts.” Association for Asian American Studies, co-organized with Jennifer Kelly. San Francisco, CA.
Panel organizer, “(Un)Belonging: The Politics of Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Japan.” National Women’s Studies Association, co-organized with Michelle Ho. Baltimore, MD.
Panel organizer, “3/11 and the Atomic Age: Memory and Power from Hiroshima to Fukushima,” Asian Studies Conference-Japan, co-organized with Ran Zwigenberg. Tokyo, Japan.
Volunteer, International Human Rights Team, Amnesty International Japan
Volunteer, Catholic Tokyo International Refugee Services