Bio: Grace is a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington Department of Communication. Prior to joining UW, she earned her B.A. at Temple University and her M.A. at the University of Utah, both in Communication. Her research examines the representation of race, gender, and sexuality as it is represented in Asian American popular culture media, with a specific focus on how desire is constructed in relation to those intersections of Asian American identities. With the CCDE, Grace has worked as a coder on the Dual Pandemics chapter of Interrupting Privilege, and is collaborating with GenPride for the next iteration of the Interrupting Privilege project.
Awards for prior research include:
• Ames Award, University of Washington Department of Communication (2024): “‘My Vagina is the Devil and She’s Here to Stay’: Visual Spectacle and Reclaiming (?) Hypersexuality for Asian American Women”
• Top Student Paper, Asian Pacific American Communication Studies Division, NCA 108th Annual Convention (2023): “‘Henry Golding is Pretty Hot’: Mixed Asian/White Actors and the Production of Desirable Masculinity in Modern Romantic Hollywood Comedies”
• Top Poster, James C. McCroskey and Virginia P. Richmond Undergraduate Scholars Conference, Eastern Communication Association (2021): “Philadelphia’s : An Ideographic Analysis”