Thy Phu is a Canadian author and academic who is a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

Education

Phu has a master's degree in English from

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood, Ontario, Ainslie Wood and Westdale, Ontario, Westd ...

, and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the

Career

Phu is a professor of media studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where she is also a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice. She was previously faculty at Western University and taught at the

National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national university, national Public university, public research university in Singapore. It was officially established in 1980 by the merging of the University of Singapore and Nanyang University ...

as well as

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. She is the director of ''The Family Camera Network'', a research project that supports local communities to create antiracist public archive photography. She co-founded the ''Critical Refugee Studies Network'' of Canada, and she is a co-editor of ''Trans Asia Photography'' journal. She is an elected member of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.

Selected publications

She has written and co-edited four books: * ''Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture'', 2011,

Temple University Press Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). It is one of thirteen publishers to participate in the Knowledge Unlatched pilot, a global library consortium approach ...

(author) * ''Feeling Photography'', 2014,

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 ...

(edited) * ''Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada,'' 2021, University of Toronto Press (edited) * ''Warring Visions: Vietnam and Photography'', 2022,

(author)

References

External links

Official website
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