I am Assistant Professor at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia.

My first book project examines cultural histories of migration, race, and gender in the US-Mexico borderlands. Mujer Peregrina: Performing Race, Space, and Memory in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands explores how Mexican American women and girls mobilized performance to intervene in the cultural, social and political scene of South Texas in the 1930s to 1960s.

My scholarship also engages with Asian migration studies, focusing on transpacific ties to Latin America. My second book project, Fantasy in Motion: Performing the Asian Femme Across American Borders, explores how Asian American performers embodied the figure of the Asian femme on hemispheric nightclub circuits in the early Cold War. I am also working on a community engaged oral history project on Chinese Peruvian migration to Canada.