Lili Johnson

LiLi Johnson is  an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her research focuses on Asian American family and kinship, racial formation and discourses of multiculturalism, and visual cultures. Her work has been published in journals including Photography & Culture and Adoption & Culture. Her current book project, Technologies of Family: Asian American Racial Formation and the Making of Kinship, uses interdisciplinary methods to theorize the role of technologies like government bureaucracy and photography in Asian American family formation from the 20^th century to the present.