Diane Wong

Diane Wong is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American activism, race and ethnicity, critical urban studies, abolition studies, gender and sexuality, cultural and media studies, and community rooted research.

Her current book project, You Can’t Evict A Movement: Intergenerational Activism and Housing Justice in New York City, combines ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, augmented reality, and oral history interviews to examine intergenerational resistance to gentrification in Manhattan Chinatown. Her other book, Asian America Rising: Movement Moments and New Visions in the 21st Century (co-edited with Mark TsengPutterman), presents a series of contemporary case studies that represent the diversity of Asian American political activism, community building, mutual aid, and issue-based organizing. She is co-editor of a special issue on “Asian American Abolition Feminisms,” for Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Her work has appeared in PS: Political Science & Politics, Urban Affairs Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Amerasia Journal, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Gateways, and a variety of books, anthologies, podcasts, and exhibitions. As a socially engaged artist, Diane is a member of the Chinatown Art Brigade and recently co-curated the exhibits “Archives as Memorial” and “De-Gentrification Archives” in New York City