June Wayee Chau

June Wayee Chau

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M.A. Candidate

  • Cultural Studies Graduate Group
Research Interests 

environmental justice, critical race studies, racialized rurality, subalternity, racial capitalism, border imperialism, social reproduction, historiography

Education

B.A. Comparative Literature and Philosophy (Magna Cum Laude), University of California, Irvine, 2014.

Presentations
  • Guest Lecture. “Techno-nature, Environmental Justice, and Water Wars.” AMS 10: Intro to American Studies. University of California, Davis. November 29, 2017.
  • “Documenting Environments of the Poor.” Power Dynamics: Media and the Environment Conference. University of California, Santa Barbara. April 30, 2016.
  • “‘From My Bedroom Thousands of Miles from Here’: Environmental Debilitation and the Material Object of Sleeplessness.” EcoMaterialisms: Organizing Life and Matters. University of California, Irvine. May 15, 2015.