Yinka Adetu is an English language and literature PhD candidate exploring the afterlives of colonialism, and how histories of displacement shape contemporary identities and political experiences.

Henry Cheng (he/they) is a PhD candidate in history, specializing in modern China, global Maoism, the Cold War, Asian American political history, and transnational radicalism.

Joshua Felton is a PhD candidate in the section of plant biology who studies the evolution of unisexual flowers in Catopsis, the powdery air plants.

Kyunghee Kang is a PhD student who studies environmental and climate-related displacement in the Global South, with a particular focus on international protection for the affected populations.

Carrie Mo is an MA student in Asian Studies. Her thesis examines how film production, screening, and festival circulation shape the memory of the Khmer Rouge, and how these processes are shaped by the material conditions of Cambodia’s cinematic infrastructure.

Josefina Rodríguez Pletikosic is a PhD student in development studies. Her research examines how transnational labor migration and agrarian capitalist expansion reshape social reproduction, communal land government, and peasant livelihoods in the Peruvian Andes.

Adwoa Tiwaah Ofori Atakorah is a PhD student in Literatures in English. Her work interrogates how migration reshapes belonging and cultural displacement in 20th- and 21st-century African and African diasporic literature, focusing especially on women’s lives and language politics.