Canadian Studies is pleased to introduce Claire Chun as the third recipient of a Hildebrand Graduate Research Fellowship for Summer 2023.
Claire is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies with a designated emphasis in gender, women and sexuality studies. She holds a B.A. in politics and social and cultural analysis from New York University. Her dissertation research examines the ways that Asian North American diasporic art and media critically engage issues of settler colonial and militarized imperial violence through aesthetic practices of more-than-human kinship and entanglements.
Claire's fellowship will support field research in Vancouver and Toronto, where she will explore how Asian diasporic artists based in Canada complicate notions of Asianness by grappling with what it means to occupy and work on ancestral, unceded Indigenous lands. She is particularly interested in how Asian Canadian visual cultures are shaped by and respond to transpacific histories of war, racialized surveillance, and environmental contamination in North America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.