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ABOUT ME

EDUCATION:

  • Doctorate in American Studies and Ethnicity (University of Southern California, 2024 - Present)

  • Master of Arts in History (University of British Columbia, 2024)

  • Bachelor of Arts in Honours History with High Distinction in International Relations, Chinese Language and Culture (University of British Columbia, 2022)

 

BIO:

I was born and raised in what is now known as Vancouver on the traditional, ancestral, and stolen territories of the xÊ·mÉ™θkÊ·É™y̓əm, sÉ™lilwÉ™taɬ, and Skwxwú7mesh First Nations. I am an uninvited settler on their land. I come from a family of immigrants to Canada who themselves were immigrants to Southeast Asia, having lived in Southeast Asia for generations. My mother’s family is part of the Stateless Chinese population in Brunei Darussalam and my father is Chinese-Vietnamese from Vietnam. Drawing from my own identity as part of the Sinophone diaspora, I became interested in understanding how those who have complex migration histories understand their own identity. This is how I first got into the discipline of History and considered it as a prism through which I could develop and magnify my research questions. Questions around what is “Chinese” across the Sinophone diaspora are of particular interest to me.  This extends of course as well to other intersections of my identity as well such as my position as a queer Asian/American individual in academia.

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    I acknowledge that the University of Southern California (USC) where I study and work is situated on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva Peoples of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands of San Nicolas, San Clemente, Santa Barbara and Santa Catalina). I also recognize the Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, Cahuilla, Juaneno, and Luiseno People for the land that USC occupies around Southern California.

    ©2024 by Aydin Quach

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