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Rachel Kuo is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work bridges archival research and ethnography to examine race, feminist politics, digital technology, and social movements. She is a founding member of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective, co-editing the anthology Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Social Science Research Council.
Education: PhD and MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University; BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
Research focuses on how digital media and technology shape solidarity across racial and class divides. Recent projects include analyses of Instagram’s role in Black-Asian solidarities, disinformation dynamics in Asian diasporic communities, and abolitionist frameworks challenging carceral systems. She critiques systemic inequities in academic citation practices and advocates for transformative methodologies in public scholarship.
Key collaborations: World Without Cages project with Asian American Writer’s Workshop; co-edited #FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus.
Awards: NEH Fellowship (202?), SSRC grant (202?). Grants focus on digital justice and anti-racist research infrastructure.
Labs/affiliations: Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (founding member), Asian American Feminist Collective (co-founder).
