Juliana Hu Pegues

Juliana Hu Pegues is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of American Indian Studies, the Program in Asian American Studies, and the Race, Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality (RIGS) Initiative. She is author of numerous articles, in journals such as Amerasia, MELUS, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and Verge: Studies in Global Asias. She is the co-editor of the special issue “Colonial Unknowing” in Theory & Event and a forthcoming special issue on “Solidarities of Non-Alignment: Abolition, Decolonization, and Anti-Capitalism,” in the journal Critical Ethnic Studies. Her current book project, Settler Space and Time, analyzes Native and Asian relations in Alaska to critically interrogate the gendered and racial formations of settler colonialism and empire. Juliana can be reached at [email protected].

Dr. Pegues is our keynote speaker for the 4th annual AAPI Leadership Summit. Register today to hear her speak on February 15! 

Juliana, a Taiwanese woman wearing glasses, smiles into the camera. She is outside in the woods in front of a river.