Amplify Womxn of UCI: Hearing Our Stories
Professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu emigrated from Taiwan at the age of six and grew up in Spokane, Washington. Currently a professor in the Department of Asian American Studies and the director of the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine, she received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford University in 1998 and previously taught at Ohio State University. Her research and teaching focus on analyzing intersecting social hierarchies, such as those based on race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship. She tends to explore how individuals form identities and navigate/protest social inequalities.
Wu authored Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: the Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005), a biography of the first American-born Chinese female physician. To find out more, please see: “Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards,” A Digital Narrative, May 2009 ( https://tinyurl.com/DrMomChung) and “Margaret Chung,” Unladylike 2020 (https://unladylike2020.com/watch/).
Her second book, Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Cornell University Press, 2013) examined the international travels of American anti-war activists, particularly people of color and women, as well as how these journeys shaped their political identity and goals.
Professor Wu’s current book project, a collaboration with political scientist Gwendolyn Mink, explores the political career of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color U.S. congressional representative and the co-sponsor of Title IX.
