Position Title
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
Position Title
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies
3115 Hart Hall
Bio
Research interests: Critical Empire and Militarisms, Gender & Sexuality, STS, Fat Studies, Disability Studies, Third World Feminisms, Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory, and Food Studies
Dr. Athia N. Choudhury is a writer, cultural theorist, and Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UC Davis. Her current book project engages U.S. imperialism as a sensorial project through the poetics of food and eating. The manuscript interrogates how wellness and diet culture become major ideological exports of U.S. empire that produce global consumers whose nutritional and medical decisions become racially coded and gendered during the American century. Choudhury holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California where she was a recipient of the Wallis Annenberg Graduate Fellowship and earned a graduate certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She previously held appointments as the Postdoctoral Associate in Asian American and Diaspora Studies at Duke University (2022–2024) and the Andrew Mellon Disability Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brown University (2024-2025). Her research and scholarship can be found in the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, The Routledge International Handbook on Fat Studies (2021), “Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness,” and the German anthology Fat Studies: Ein Glossar (Transcript Verlag, 2022).