Research
Research Fields
Feminist Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine * Cultural Studies * Media Studies * Asian/American Studies
Research Interests
Gender, race and science
Empire and medicine
Global studies of public health
Biosafety and Biosecurity
Disease control and disaster
preparedness
Current Project
Research Project: Chinese Medicine & Healing Justice
The study focuses on Chinese Medicine in the U.S. as an important site for promoting community healing and healing justice among people of color and other marginalized communities. The study primarily relies on interviews with women, trans, and nonbinary people of color community-based practitioners, and explores: the role of Chinese Medicine in community health/healing justice/social justice, and the medicine's potential to contribute to a broader project of decolonizing medicine.
Recently Completed Book Project
Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility (book forthcoming with Rutgers University Press): Bio-Imperialism critiques an understudied dimension of the war on terror—US focus on bioterror and germ threats. The book examines the post-9/11 mobilization of bioscience and public health fields to this effort, alongside narratives of Arab/Muslim terror, US vulnerability, white femininity, techno-scientific progress, and pandemic preparedness. The book argues that the US significantly advanced its global control over biological, medical, and health resources during the war on terror.
