Claire Chun
Research
visual culture studies; Asian North American studies; digital media and technology studies; critical beauty studies; diaspora studies; feminist science studies
Contact:
e: claire.chun@berkeley.edu
Bio & Research Interests
Claire Chun is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Ethnic Studies (Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies). She received her B.A. in Politics and Social and Cultural Analysis from New York University.
Her research is broadly interested in the triangulation of race, technology, and visual and popular culture with a particular focus on beauty, aesthetics, diaspora, and war.
She is coordinator of the Digital Ethnic Studies and Asian American Feminist Theory working groups and serves on the editorial board of Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences.