Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Jiajia Zhang

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Jiajia Zhang (she/her)

Major: American Studies and Practice of Art, Certificates in Asian/Pacific/American Studies and Norwegian Language
Hometown: Belmont, MA
Advisor & Department: Franklin S. Odo, American Studies

Research Interest: Using postcolonial and Asian American critical race analyses to understand historical and persistent patterns of racism against the Chinese diaspora in the USA, Britain, and Norway.

Fun fact: I used to be a social media manager for a Belarusian rock band called Litesound!