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Yitong Lei
  • Title
    • Course Assistant
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Online/Zoom
  • Mail Stop No Mailstop

Research Interests

Transnational film & literatures, postcolonial studies, Asian American studies, war & empire studies, media studies, ethnic studies, & more.

Biography, Education and Training

yitong is a multisciplinary artist and writer interrogating and interacting with the World as a scholar of ethnic studies, memory, and future. their work engages primarily with racial politics of asian capital, diaspora, and labor, with special attention to the role of propaganda in racemaking. they received their bachelor of arts in critical race & ethnic studies here at ucsc.

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

The Humanities Institute Fellowship (2022-2023 Cohort)

Koret Scholar (2022-2023 Cohort)

Jennifer Lynn Kelly Scholarship

Selected Publications

Feeding Hungry Ghosts: A History of Santa Cruz Chinatowns, published by City on a Hill Press.