Description:

Dr. Kelly Fong is a contingent faculty member in Asian American Studies at California State University, Northridge. Her research utilizes an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, history, anthropology, and historical archaeology to excavate Chinese American social histories through the documents, oral histories, and material culture these communities and individuals left behind. Her work focuses on issues of race, racism, and racialization in historical archaeology with particular emphasis on the racialization of Asian Americans. She is also interested in issues of comparative racialization, Asian American foodways, and video games as a way to look at race in contemporary popular culture.