Diane Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark, she is also an affiliate faculty of Global Urban Studies, American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies. Previously, she was Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. She holds a PhD in American Politics and MA in Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration from the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her interests include American politics, Asian American politics, gender and sexuality, urban governance, comparative immigration, race and ethnicity, participation and inequality, cultural and media studies, and community rooted research. As a first-generation Chinese American born and raised in Flushing, Queens in New York City, her research is intimately tied to the Asian diaspora and urban immigrant experience. Her current book project, You Can't Evict A Movement: Housing Justice and Intergenerational Activism in New York City, focuses on intergenerational resistance to gentrification in Manhattan Chinatown. Her work draws from a combination of methods including ethnography, participatory mapping, augmented reality, oral history interviews, and feminist archival practices. Her other book, Asian America Rising, presents a series of contemporary case studies that represent the diversity of Asian American political activism, community building, mutual aid, and issue-based organizing. She is co-editor of a special issue on “Asian American Abolition Feminisms,” for Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Her research has received the Byran Jackson Research on Minority Politics Award, Susan Clarke Young Scholars’ Award, and Don T. Nakanishi Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Asian Pacific American Politics. Her research has been funded by prestigious grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, Institute for Citizens and Scholars, Russell Sage Foundation, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities New York, Mass Humanities and Asian Women Giving Circle. Diane is a member of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, she is also alumni and mentor for the McNair Achievement Scholars Program, Leadership Alliance Mellon Summer Initiative, and the American Political Science Association Minority Fellows Program. Her work has appeared in PS: Political Science and Politics, Women's Studies Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Amerasia Journal, Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Asian American Studies, Asian American Policy Review, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, and a variety of edited book volumes, anthologies, podcasts, anthologies, and exhibitions. Diane is a socially engaged artist, as part of various cultural collectives she has held artist residencies with the Millay Arts and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Her latest exhibits include "Degentrification Archives" at Pace University Art Galleries and “Archive as Memorial” at Storefront for Ideas in New York City. Diane is currently on sabbatical as an ACLS Fellow.