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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