Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, Director of the Asian American Studies Program | Co-Director of CRES
Tara Fickle's research interests include Asian/American Gaming, Comics, Literature, and Digital Culture. She is the author of The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities and co-editor of Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games were never (really) about Us.
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Latina and Latino Studies Program | Director of the Latina and Latino Studies Program | Co-Director of CRES
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
Keva X. Bui’s (they/them) research interests include transnational Asian/American studies; critical militarization studies; feminist science and technology studies; anti-war social movements; and the Cold War. Their writing has appeared/is forthcoming in Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, Frontiers, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Journal of Transnational American Studies, and the Sage Encyclopedia of Refugee Studies. They are currently writing their first book, Disarming Empire: Race and Anti-War Critique in US Cold War Weapons Culture. You can find out more about their work at kevaxbui.com.
Associate Professor, Asian American Studies Program, Department of History
Ji-Yeon Yuh (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999) teaches Asian American history, Asian diasporas, race and gender, and oral history. Her current projects include Asian Diasporas Digital Archive, a digital oral history repository at the Northwestern Library; “Performing History: Documenting and Enacting the Asian American Midwest,” an oral history and performance project with scholars at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Humanities Without Walls consortium; Memories of War, an undergraduate research seminar and oral history project on the life narratives of Vietnamese and Korean Americans; and a book on Korean diasporas in China, Japan, and the United States. Active in community organizations, she is a co-founder of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, a board member of Korea Policy Institute, and former board president of KANWIN, a Korean American women's organization focusing on domestic violence. She is a native of Seoul and Chicago, a former journalist, and a fan of genre fiction.
Assistant Professor, Latina and Latino Studies
audrey.silvestre@northwestern.edu
Audrey Silvestre (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary scholar and community organizer from Southeast Los Angeles, CA. Audrey received her BA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach and a PhD in Chicana/o and Central American Studies from University of California, Los Angeles. Has research and teaching interest in aesthetics and politics, sound studies, feminist and queer studies, and audio cultural studies.
