LiLi Johnson
Position title: Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies, and Asian-American Studies
Email: lili.johnson@wisc.edu
Address:
3434 Sterling Hall; 302 Ingraham Hall
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Personal Website
Joint Appointment: Asian American Studies
LiLi Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies. She completed her Ph.D. at Yale University in American Studies with a certificate in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on Asian American racial formation and multiculturalism, family and kinship, and cultural studies of science. She is currently working on a book project titled Family Conceptions: Technologies of Asian American Family Formation, which theorizes different technological systems and non-biological forms of kinship to examine Asian American family formation from the twentieth century to the present.
Fall 2020 Courses:
Gen&WS 440: Feminist Science and Technology Studies
AsianAm 240: Asian American Family and Kinship
Select Publications:
Johnson, LiLi. 2018. “Searching in Photographs: Photography and the Chinese Birth Parent Search.” Adoption & Culture 6.1: 116-134.
Johnson, LiLi. 2017. “Paper Family Photography: Photography and the State in the Era of Paper Families and Chinese Exclusion (1882-1943).” Photography and Culture 10.2: 105-119.