Joshua Luo

Y. Joshua Luo is a Han Chinese PhD student in the Department of American Studies at Yale University and a 2025-2026 fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). He holds an MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA and a BA in East Asian and Asian American Studies from Hampshire College.

At Yale, his work combines Decolonial Science and Technology Studies, Critical China Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Critical Indigenous Studies to investigate minoritarian cultural representations of US-China inter-imperialism. Centering the minoritized caught between empires, he adopts a comparative approach that draws on Chinese/Sinophone, Asian American, and non-Han Chinese (especially Uyghur and Uyghur American) literature and visual culture, alongside state and corporate archival materials, to foreground experiences of minoritization and dispossession at a time of U.S.–China entanglements. Through these cultural and archival sources, he aims to highlight the often-overlooked minoritarian critiques of U.S.–China technological and economic integration, and to explore how authors and artists imagine possibilities for decolonial and anti-imperial solidarity across multiple empires.