Catherine Ceniza Choy

Catherine Ceniza Choy

Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies

Catherine Ceniza Choy is a professor of Asian American and comparative ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. A former department chair of ethnic studies and associate dean of undergraduate studies, she currently serves as associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice in Berkeley’s division of computing, data science, and society. She is the editor of the Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World,  the third volume of which is a reprinting of Doreen G. Fernandez’s Tikim: Essays on Philippine Food and Culture. She is the author of three books: Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History; Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption; and the forthcoming Asian American Histories of the United States.  Her new book focuses on anti-Asian hate and violence, erasure of Asian American history, and Asian American resistance to discrimination in a nearly 200 years of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the US.

Choy argues that Asian American experiences are essential to any understanding of US history and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century. She has been interviewed and had her research cited in many media outlets, including ABC 2020, The Atlantic, CNN, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, New York Times, ProPublica, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vox, providing insights on anti-Asian, coronavirus-related hate and violence, the disproportionate toll of COVID-19 on Filipino nurses in the United States, and racism and misogyny in the March 16, 2021 Atlanta murders.

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