Sarah E. K. Fong
Sarah E.K. Fong is an Assistant Professor of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Dr. Fong is currently working on a book project titled, The Character of Capitalism: Race-Making and Settler Colonialism in Nineteenth Century Industrial Boarding Schools. The book examines the entanglements of schooling, self-making, and racial-settler capitalism in late-nineteenth century industrial boarding schools for African-descended and Indigenous youth. Dr. Fong brings archival documents from two industrial schools – the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Virginia) and the Haskell Indian Industrial Institute (Kansas) – together with memoirs, poetry, and fiction written by Black and Native people who attended these schools to explore the contested meanings of race, indigeneity, freedom, and self-determination in the US. Works from this project have been published in American Indian Culture and Research Journal; Postmodern Culture; and Amerasia Journal.
Courtney Sato
Courtney Sato is Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching engages Asian American Studies, transnational American Studies, intellectual and cultural history, and critical race and gender studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Prior to joining Tufts, Dr. Sato was a Global American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. Dr. Sato’s first book, Pacific Internationalism: Interwar Ideologies at the Crossroads of the Pacific, chronicles Pacific-based internationalist movements that arose in the wake of WWI.
Wenxuan Xue
Wenxuan Xue is a performance artist, dramaturg, and a PhD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at Tufts University. They create, teach, and research contemporary performances that explore intra-Asian and transpacific migration, race, queer/transness, and ecologies towards collective futures. Wenxuan is a Course Assistant for Intro to RCD.
Micah Saxton
Micah Saxton is the Research Librarian for the Humanities at Tufts University. He assists students and faculty researching in the areas of English, History, Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora Studies, and Religion. His own areas of interest include the teaching and promotion of the Digital Humanities as well as Science Fiction studies.