About Me
I am currently a Research Fellow in the Department of American Studies at Yale University. Trained in political theory, I work primarily within critical ethnic studies to bridge the two fields through an analysis of the intertwined histories of racial capitalism and postcolonial racial formations.
In Progress
My current research project, titled Relational Formations of Race in the Afterlives of the Korean War, examines how the war’s racialized logic of martial citizenship produced the conditions for popular narratives surrounding so-called “interethnic conflict” in urban centers and contributed to the rise of the Korean American far right. Through this work, I aim to illuminate the enduring entanglements between militarism, race, and diaspora in shaping political subjectivities.
Publications
Review Essays
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes. Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity
National Review of Black Politics (2020)
Public Essays + Commentary
In 2020, Porter said it was past time to reunite Korean families—it still is
Los Angeles Progressive (2024)
