Diane Wong

Diane Wong is a political scientist whose interests include Asian American politics, race and ethnicity, critical urban studies, gender and sexuality, cultural and media studies, and community rooted research. Her work draws from a unique combination of methods including ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, augmented reality, and oral history interviews. She holds a Ph.D. in American Politics and M.A. in Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration from Cornell University.

Publications:

• “The Future Is Ours To Build: Asian American Abolitionist Counterstories for Black Liberation,” in Politics, Groups, and Identities, 10(3): 493-502. 2021.

• “Promiscuous Care in Movement-Based Research: Lessons Learned from Collaborations in Manhattan’s Chinatown,” in Gateways International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 14(2): 2-11. 2021.

• “Dwelling in Unwellness: A/P/A Voices,” (with Crystal Baik, Vivian Truong, Minju Bae, Preeti Sharma, Lena Sze, Amita Manghnani, Mi Hyun Yoon) in Journal of Asian American Studies, 25(3): 493-516. 2022.

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• "Empty Chinatown Storefront Becomes a Community Tribute.” Interview for Hyperallergic. January 2023: https://hyperallergic.com/794924/empty-chinatown-storefront-becomes-a-community-tribute/

• “Degentrification Archives.” Interview for Hyperallergic. February 2023: https://hyperallergic.com/800196/the-artists-resisting-the-gentrification-of-new-yorks-chinatown/

• Tomie Arai and Diane Wong on Collecting AAPI Stories.” Interviewed for Asian American Arts Alliance. March 2023: https://www.aaartsalliance.org/magazine/stories/tomie-arai-and-diane-wong-on-community-stories-as-memorials

Previous Organizations: 

• GenForward Survey

Accomplishments:

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Award

• Institute for Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship Award

• American Political Science Association Best Paper on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Award

Upcoming Projects:

• Co-editor of forthcoming special issue on “Asian American Abolition Feminisms” for Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies.

Asian America Rising gathers an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars of Asian American activism and politics, community organizers, artists, archivists, and others to highlight the diversity of twenty-first-century Asian American political movements across a number of critical areas. Based on deep collaborations between scholars and frontline organizers, contributors like Diane Fujino, Vichet Chhuon, Lakshmi Sridaran, Kim Compoc, and Yves Tong Nguyen examine different facets of the Asian American political experience, including the impact of immigrant detention and deportation; the emergence of conservative Chinese American opposition to affirmative action in higher education; abolitionist critiques of the Stop Asian Hate movement; and transnational resistance to U.S. economic and military dominance in Hawai‘i, the Philippines, and Okinawa.

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/Politics-Civic-Society