Bio/CV:
Claire Chun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies (with a 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 explores how modern conceptualizations of “Korean” and “Asian” beauty, wellness, and aesthetics are shaped by transnational entanglements between diaspora, media, and ecology.
Research interests:
Visual art and culture; transpacific Asian American studies; critical beauty studies; diaspora studies; disability studies; materiality studies
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