Aimee Bahng | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Academic |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Princeton University Middlebury College University of California, San Diego |
Aimee Bahng is an American academic. She is a professor of gender and women's studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Her previous denial of tenure at Dartmouth College sparked widespread protests about discrimination against racial minorities in academia. [1]
Bahng received her bachelor's degree at Princeton University, then completed a master's degree at Middlebury College and a doctorate at the University of California, San Diego. [2] [3]
Bahng taught at Dartmouth College. Her denial of tenure there sparked widespread protests about discrimination against racial minorities in academia. [4] [5] [6] [7] [1]
In 2017, she was hired at Pomona College as an assistant professor in the gender and women's studies department. [2]
Bahng's research interests include Asian-American speculative fiction and the writer Octavia Butler. [2]