INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PROGRAM

Alison Choi (she/her) is a third-year PhD student in the History department at Northwestern. Her research explores Korean diasporic history and the proliferation of joy in Korean American cultural production. Her historical practice is interdisciplinary, and she studies across and within Asian American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies to understand power systems and marginalized experiences in history. Alison earned her B.A. in History at Pomona College in 2019. She is also a member of GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals generating and sharing progressive, critical, intersectional and intergenerational discourses, community alliances, and free educational programs in Los Angeles and beyond.