Aimee Bahng
American academic
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Aimee Bahng is an American academic. She is a professor of gender and women's studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her previous denial of tenure at Dartmouth College sparked widespread protests about discrimination against racial minorities in academia.[1]
Aimee Bahng | |
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| Occupation | Academic |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Middlebury College University of California, San Diego |
Early life and education
Bahng received her bachelor's degree at Princeton University, then completed a master's degree at Middlebury College and a doctorate at the University of California, San Diego.[2][3]
Career
Bahng taught at Dartmouth College. Her denial of tenure there sparked widespread protests about discrimination against racial minorities in academia.[4][5][6][7][1]
In 2017, she was hired at Pomona College as an assistant professor in the gender and women's studies department.[2]
Research
Bahng's research interests include Asian-American speculative fiction and the writer Octavia Butler.[2]
Books
- Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-8223-7301-8.[8][9][10]
