Thy Phu

Thy Phu is a Distinguished Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Visual Justice at the University of Toronto. She is author of two books, Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam and Picturing Model Citizens: Civility and Asian American Visual Culture. She is also co-editor of three volumes: Cold War Camera, Feeling Photography, and Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada. Currently, she serves as co-editor for the open access journal of Trans Asia Photography and is co-Director of the community-engaged project, Refugee States. Funded by a SSHRC Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative grant, Refugee States partners with community organizations in the creation of a counter-archive of refugee and migrant narratives which will challenge meta-narrative of forced dislocation in the contexts of race, gender and sexuality.