Victor Xie (he/him) is a PhD student in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and a recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and received his B.A. in English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. His research is centered around how Chinese diasporic subjects in the US have used and abused discourses of American freedom to gain legibility from the state, and how this entanglement has consequences for other racialized bodies living within and outside of US empire. He is particularly interested in political asylum, Cold War afterlives, and labor histories. Before starting his PhD, Victor was an Editorial Assistant at Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook, an open-access textbook produced by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
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