She received her PhD from UC Berkeley and is at work on a book project, tentatively titled “Blurring the Color Line: Racial Fictions, Militarized Humanity, and the Pax Americana in the Pacific Rim,” thatexamines the historic relation of post-1945 Afro-Asian human rights literature to the Pax Americana, the U.S. military "peace" that restructured the Asia Pacific following Japan’s Pacific War defeat. She teaches courses on critical race studies; Cold War cultures in Asia and the Pacific; the Korean War; the Black Pacific; the nuclear Pacific; theories of human rights, decolonization, racial justice, and revolutionary violence; race and comics; and Los Angeles circa 1992.