Job title:
Edward E. Hildebrand Fellow, 2024
Department:
Travers Department of Political Science
Bio/CV:
Andrew is a PhD student in the Travers Department of Political Science studying identity politics and immigration.
Andrew's Hildebrand Fellowship will support a project exploring immigrant integration. Specifically, it will explore the role of Chinatown family associations in helping or hindering integration in early Canadian Chinatowns. These organizations aided Chinese immigrants in the face of exclusion and violence, with idiosyncratic membership criteria based on surname. Through conducting interviews and visiting field sites, Andrew hopes to learn more about the role of these associations in the lives of early Chinese immigrants to Canada.
Andrew holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Toronto, where he received the Suzanne and Edwin Goodman Prize as the top graduating student in the political science specialization. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked for several years in public opinion research.