Julie Chung - Redefining “Inclusive” Science: Hawai‘i’s Multicultural Settler Colonial Context
In response to stark indigenous health disparities, researchers at the University of Hawai‘i Department of Native Hawaiian Health (DNHH) have incorporated Native Hawaiian culture, knowledge, and community voices into their community-engaged research projects. However, these scientists regularly grapple with the legacies of extractive academic research practices in Hawai‘i’s settler-colonial history and present. How do scientists navigate their positionality as researchers and individuals accountable to Native Hawaiian communities? How has navigating this role affected the epistemology…
Sally Chen - “Take Root”: Community Formation at the San Francisco Chinatown Branch Public Library 1970s-1990s
The Chinatown Branch serves as a case study for the Chinese American community in San Francisco as they formed and contested new narratives of what it meant to be Chinese American from the 1970s-1990s. Through examining the Chinatown Branch as the culmination of the unrecognized labor of the Chinatown Branch librarians, this thesis shows the forms of work that undergirded processes of community formation in the context of changing U.S. immigration policy, growing and diversifying populations, and San Francisco, California, and national politics of the time.