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Neil Boothby, faculty fellow

New Faculty Fellows

Neil Boothby
Professor and Director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child,
Institute for Educational Initiatives

Neil Boothby is an internationally recognized expert and advocate for children affected by war, displacement, and abject poverty. He has worked for more than 25 years with children in adversity in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Hayun Cho, professional Asian women with long dark hair in a light blue turtleneck, poses in front of a cream wall with wooden panels.

Hayun Cho
Assistant Professor of Korean Literature and Popular Culture, East Asian Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Letters

Hayun Cho’s current research examines the politics of emotion in contemporary South Korean women’s literature and film with broader research interests spanning feminist and queer theory, affect, postcolonialism, and transpacific studies.

Nikhit D'sa, faculty fellow

Nikhit D’sa
Assistant Professor and Director of Research, Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child, Institute for Educational Initiatives

Nikhit D’Sa is a developmental psychologist and applied education researcher. He studies how the relationships and settings around children living in low-resource, crisis-affected, or fragile contexts can be leveraged to support their learning and development.

Mary Gallagher, professional woman with pale skin, red hair, and glasses wearing a white shirt and leather jacket smiles and poses in front of a wall of bookcases.

Mary Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean and Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs

Mary Gallagher’s research focuses on Chinese politics, US-China relations, and Chinese state-society relations, especially labor politics and labor law. She joined the Keough School in 2024 as its second dean.

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Whitney Lew James
Assistant Teaching Professor, University Writing Program, College of Arts and Letters

Whitney Lew James’s teaching and research traverses digital cultural rhetorics, translingual pedagogy, antiracist writing assessment, and disability rhetorics.

Mark Johnson, middle-aged male Caucasian in a suit jacket, blue shirt, and striped tie, poses in front of a grey studio background.

Mark Johnson
Associate Clinical Professor and Teaching Fellow, Alliance for Catholic Education,
Institute for Educational Initiatives

Mark Johnson’s research focuses on social studies education and the history of Chinese communities in the American West, specifically in his home state of Montana.

Liam Kruger, faculty fellow

Liam Kruger
Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Arts and Letters

Liam Kruger teaches on global Anglophone literatures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His current research concerns representations of urban space in postcolonial literature, taking Dublin, Lagos, Johannesburg, and Hong Kong as case studies.

Siiri Scott, faculty fellow from the department of film, television, and theatre

Siiri Scott
Head of Acting and Directing, Professor of the Practice, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, College of Arts and Letters

Proficient in more than 40 dialects, Siiri Scott teaches advanced acting, voice, dialect, and movement, including Japanese Noh theatre performance, and her research interests also include anti-racist theatre pedagogy and practice. 

Xueying Wang, faculty fellow

Xueying Wang
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, College of Arts and Letters

Xueying Wang’s research focuses on Catholicism in China, especially the Chinese Rites Controversy (ca. 1630–1742). She pays special attention to the writings of Chinese Catholics, whose voices have traditionally been neglected.

Michelle A. Whaley, professional Asian woman with shoulder length dark hair and bangs, slightly smiling, with an indigo button down shirt poses in front of a set of windows on the Notre Dame campus.

Michelle Whaley
Teaching Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science

Michelle Whaley’s research is currently focused on the characterization of Aedes aegypti visual genes and how gene expression may affect mosquito behavior. An Okinawan-American who grew up in Hawaii, Whaley maintains connections with and supports the Hawaii community on campus. Her teaching focuses on developing critical thinking and research skills in students early in their careers. 

 

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New Publications

Jennifer Huynh, assistant professor of American Studies, authored "Suburban Refugees Class and Resistance in Little Saigon" (University of California Press), which raises crucial questions challenging suburban inequality and complicates our understanding of refugee resettlement—and, more broadly, the American dream.

Suburban Refugees: Class and Resistance in Little Saigon

Jennifer Huynh
Assistant Professor, American Studies

 

America's suburbs are more diverse and more unequal than ever before. Focusing on Southern California's Little Saigon, a global suburb and the capital of "Vietnamese America," Jennifer Huynh shows how refugees and their children are enacting placemaking against forces of displacement such as financialized capital, exclusionary zoning, and the criminalization of migrants. This book raises crucial questions challenging suburban inequality and complicates our understanding of refugee resettlement—and, more broadly, the American dream.

Book cover and text courtesy of University of California Press

Xian Wang, assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, authored "Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" (University of Michigan Press, 2025), which explores the intersection of female martyrdom, national memory, and gender politics in modern Chinese history, centered around the lives and narratives of iconic revolutionary female figures, presented through the concept of an imaginary museum.

Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs

Xian Wang
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures

 

"Gendered Memories: An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs" takes readers on a journey through the lives and legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs, revealing how their sacrifices have been remembered, commemorated, and manipulated throughout history. This innovative book blends historical narratives with personal narratives, creating an “imaginary museum” where the stories of these women are brought to life. Author Xian Wang employs this imaginary museum to create a conceptual space mirroring an actual museum that juxtaposes historical narratives with countermemories of Chinese female revolutionaries, such as the prominent writer Ding Ling. Exploring Ding’s experiences with martyrdom and the commemoration of female revolutionary martyrs associated with her, the book provides a compelling argument that female revolutionary martyrdom reinforces, rather than rejects, the traditional concept of female chastity martyrdom. Narratives that challenge established gender norms, particularly those surrounding female chastity, have often been silenced or overlooked in the collective memory of these female revolutionary martyrs. By delving into these countermemories, Wang provides fresh insights into gendered violence, memories, and politics in modern Chinese literature and culture.

Book cover and text courtesy of University of Michigan Press