Thy Phu is a Canadian author and academic who is a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice at the University of Toronto.
Phu has a master's degree in English from McMaster University, [1] and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. [2]
She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. [2]
Phu is a professor of media studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, [3] where she is also a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice. [4]
She was previously faculty at Western University and taught at the National University of Singapore as well as Yale University. [3]
She is the director of The Family Camera Network, a research project that supports local communities to create antiracist public archive photography. [3] She co-founded the Critical Refugee Studies Network of Canada, [3] and she is a co-editor of Trans Asia Photography journal. [3]
She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. [3]
She has written and co-edited four books:
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