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About Ann Choi
Da In Ann Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include domestic work, theories on care, and urban 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 domestic work, theories on care, and urban studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu.
NBN Episodes hosted by Ann:
February 10, 2026
Japan Reborn
In her book Japan Reborn: Race and Eugenics from Empire to Cold War (Columbia UP, 2025), historian Kristin Roebuck grapples with the question: Why did…
May 18, 2022
Gender Politics at Home and Abroad
Postcolonial feminist scholarship on the formation of gender relations primarily uses the analytic of colonizer-colonized dyad. In her new monograph, …
May 4, 2022
Vulgar Beauty
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…
March 11, 2022
An Empire of Touch
Can subalterns speak? Now an iconic question from a prominent postcolonial studies scholar Gayatri Spivak, the question interrogates the in-built assu…
October 13, 2021
Urgent Archives
Today I talked to Michelle Caswell about her new book Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (Routledge, 2021).What is the place of archives…
September 8, 2021
Home Care Fault Lines
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…
May 12, 2021
Freezing Fertility
How does egg freezing reshape our conception of time, aging and fertility? In her new monograph, Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the G…
January 13, 2021
Seeing Like a Child
Intertwining autobiography and ethnography, Clara Han’s touching new book Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 20…
January 7, 2021
Traffic in Asian Women
Can we ever overcome the epistemological barrier to conceptualizing Asian women not as particular cases but as theories, and can women of color academ…
December 16, 2020
The Cost of Belonging
How vulnerable can you be as a researcher? Why, in a commercially successful city like Wangqing, are Chinese Koreans more successful in their business…
November 25, 2020
Embodied Reckonings
In a bustling city-center of Seoul, women in yellow vests protesting over the “final” resettlement between the Japanese and Korean governments every W…
October 23, 2020
Elusive Belonging
Studies on marriage migration often portray marriage migrants as victims of globalization and patriarchy. Although there are intersecting oppressions …