About Ann Choi

Da In Ann Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include care labor and migration, reproductive justice, social movement, citizenship theory, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu.

Da In Ann Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include care labor and migration, reproductive justice, social movement, citizenship theory, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu.

NBN Episodes hosted by Ann:

Genevieve Alva Clutario, "Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941" (Duke UP, 2023)

January 25, 2024

Beauty Regimes

Genevieve Alva Clutario
Hosted by Ann Choi

Beauty is often dismissed as superfluous and frivolous cultural consumption. In her book, Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the …

Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)

October 4, 2023

Warring Genealogies

Joo Ok Kim
Hosted by Ann Choi
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“[W]hat is our relationship to the Korean War and to the affinities” of different institutions that produce knowledge about the Korean War? (130) In h…

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, "Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)

May 23, 2022

Archipelago of Resettlement

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
Hosted by Ann Choi

“Nước Việt Nam: a home, a cradle, a point of departure” (Gandhi, 1). The Vietnamese word nước embraces the duality of land and water with an idea of…

Hyaeweol Choi, "Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: Protestant Modernity in Colonial-Era Korea" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

May 18, 2022

Gender Politics at Home and Abroad

Hyaeweol Choi
Hosted by Ann Choi

Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph, …

Mila Zuo, "Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global Sensorium" (Duke UP, 2022)

May 4, 2022

Vulgar Beauty

Mila Zuo
Hosted by Ann Choi

Yi’s eyes soften as he watches Jiazhi sing a Chinese folk song with subtle, feminine movements in the film, Lust, Caution. The room fills with laughte…

Poulomi Saha, "An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor and the Fabrication of East Bengal" (Columbia UP, 2019)

March 11, 2022

An Empire of Touch

Poulomi Saha
Hosted by Ann Choi

Can subalterns speak? Now an iconic question from a prominent postcolonial studies scholar Gayatri Spivak, the question interrogates the in-built assu…

Michelle Caswell, "Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work" (Routledge, 2021)

October 13, 2021

Urgent Archives

Michelle Caswell
Hosted by Ann Choi

Today I talked to Michelle Caswell about her new book Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021).What is the place of archives…

Cynthia J. Cranford, "Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances" (ILR Press, 2020)

September 8, 2021

Home Care Fault Lines

Cynthia J. Cranford
Hosted by Ann Choi

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing how we think about care. Care work has long been devalued – the daily labors of sustaining the well-being of individ…

Grace M. Cho, "Tastes Like War: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)

August 18, 2021

Tastes Like War

Grace M. Cho
Hosted by Ann Choi

The US military camptowns were established shortly after the Second World War in 1945, appropriating the Japanese comfort stations. The Korean governm…

Lucy van de Wiel, "Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging" (NYU Press, 2020)

May 12, 2021

Freezing Fertility

Lucy van de Wiel
Hosted by Ann Choi

How does egg freezing reshape our conception of time, aging and fertility? In her new monograph, Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the G…

Clara Han, "Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War" (Fordham UP, 2020)

January 13, 2021

Seeing Like a Child

Clara Han
Hosted by Ann Choi

Intertwining autobiography and ethnography, Clara Han’s touching new book Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 20…

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, "Traffic in Asian Women" (Duke UP, 2020)

January 7, 2021

Traffic in Asian Women

Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Hosted by Ann Choi

Can we ever overcome the epistemological barrier to conceptualizing Asian women not as particular cases but as theories, and can women of color academ…

Sharon J. Yoon, "The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography on Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing's Koreatown" (Oxford UP, 2020)

December 16, 2020

The Cost of Belonging

Sharon J. Yoon
Hosted by Ann Choi

How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their business…

Elizabeth Son, "Embodied Reckonings: 'Comfort Women,' Performance, and Transpacific Redress" (U Michigan Press, 2018)

November 25, 2020

Embodied Reckonings

Elizabeth Son
Hosted by Ann Choi

In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every W…

Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2020)

November 9, 2020

A Violent Peace

Christine Hong
Hosted by Ann Choi

The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In …

Minjeong Kim, "Elusive Belonging: Marriage Immigrants and 'Multiculturalism' in Rural South Korea" (U Hawai’i Press, 2018)

October 23, 2020

Elusive Belonging

Minjeong Kim
Hosted by Ann Choi

Studies on marriage migration often portray marriage migrants as victims of globalization and patriarchy. Although there are intersecting oppressions …