Aimee Bahng
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAcademic
Academic background
Alma materPrinceton University
Middlebury College
University of California, San Diego

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]

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]

References

  1. 1 2 Flaherty, Colleen. "Tenure Denied". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Aimee Bahng". Pomona College. July 6, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Redacted Dartmouth CV" (PDF). 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 9, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
  4. ↑ Flaherty, Colleen (May 17, 2016). "Campus unrest follows tenure denial of innovative, popular faculty member of color". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  5. ↑ Morris, Catherine (May 18, 2016). "Denied Tenure at Dartmouth, Aimee Bahng Feels Diversity Efforts Ring Hollow". Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  6. ↑ Sananes, Rebecca (May 24, 2016). "A Fight For Faculty Of Color At Dartmouth And Beyond". New Hampshire Public Radio. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  7. ↑ Wilson, Robin (November 6, 2016). "A New Front of Activism". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved May 3, 2021.
  8. ↑ Carpenter, Chris (2020). "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times by Aimee Bahng". Modern Fiction Studies. 66 (3): 574–577. doi:10.1353/mfs.2020.0029. ISSN 1080-658X. S2CID 242979458.
  9. ↑ Guynes, Sean (February 21, 2019). "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times". ASAP/Journal. Retrieved October 4, 2021.
  10. ↑ Bui, Keva X. (2020). "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times by Aimee Bahng". Journal of Asian American Studies. 23 (2): 306–309. doi:10.1353/jaas.2020.0014. S2CID 226569168.


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