YITONG LEI
is a multisciplinary artist / educator / writer interrogating and interacting with the World as a scholar of diaspora, memory, and future.
War, empire, & media studies
Ethnic studies
Asian American studies
Topics of Interest:
Social, cultural, and political history of the Asian diaspora twentieth and twenty-first century history
Critical pedagogy & linguistic diversity in education
Transnational film & literatures
Presentations:
June 2023
“Mapping Chinatown Through Sites of Construction,” UC Santa Cruz Humanities Spring Awards
May 2023
“(In Pursuit of) Decolonial Chinatown: What’s At Stake In Anti-Gentrification Movements,” UC Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies Symposium
Jennifer Lynn Kelly Scholarship Recipient (2023)
The Humanities Institute (THI) Undergraduate Fellow (2022-2023)
Koret Scholar Cohort (2022-2023)
Okinawa Memories Initiative, Summer Scholar & Archives Intern (2022)
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society (2023)
UCSC Dean's Honor List (2019-2023)
friends with websites: