As a first year master’s student in the department, I work under the supervision of Dr. Renisa Mawani. I am a Han Chinese settler living on unceded territories of the šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) Nations, in what is colonially known as “Vancouver.” My research interests lie within the tensions between hyphenated “Chinese-Canadian” identities/communities & socio-political necessitations of anti-oppressive theory and praxis, living as an unwilling yet complicit settler in the state known as “Canada.” For my thesis project I hope to conduct research on Vancouver’s Chinese-Canadian communities, through methods of digital analysis, in order to construct a body of knowledge on contemporary political and class contours.

Community Research Co-Lead (2021-2022) for Dr. Amanda Cheong, Documenting Migration and Medical Histories of Immigrant Seniors

2021 UBC Graduate Entrance Scholarship

2021 UBC Institute of Asian Research Fellowship

2020 UVic Cecilia Benoit Sociology Honours Best Essay Award

2018 UVic Roy E.L. Watson Sociology Scholarship

2018 UVic President’s Beyond Borders Asia Partners Fund

2016 BC Graduation Program Examination Scholarship

2016 BC District/Authority Scholarship

2016 Vancouver Foundation Scholarship

2016 UVic Excellence Scholarship

Teaching Assistant:

SOCI 312 : Gender Relations