Contact Information
1208 W Nevada St, Urbana, IL
61801
Education
Ph.D. in Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2019)
B.A.s in Creative Writing & Cultural Anthropology, University of St. Thomas
Grants
Co-PI, Action Family Grant, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (2024 - 2025)
Co-Applicant, Catalyst grant, Canada Institutes of Health Research, Catalyzing Intersectoral Collaborations on the Intersectional Public Health Impacts of Climate Displacement: Insights from British Columbia and Beyond (2023 - 2024)
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota (2018 - 2019)
Global Food Security Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota (2015 - 2016)
Awards and Honors
Rising: Climate in Crisis Resident, A Studio in the Woods, Tulane University’s ByWater Institute (22-23)
Monroe Fellow, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University (2021-22)
Creative Nonfiction Fellow, VONA (Voices of our Nation’s Artists Foundation) (2021)
Excellence in Teaching Faculty Award recipient, Bard Early College in New Orleans (2017)
Multicultural Research Award recipient, Institute for Diversity, Equity and Advocacy, UMN (2015)
Graduate Research Partnership Fellow, Dept. of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, UMN (2014)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Recent Publications
Kang, S., & Park, L. S. H. (Eds.) (2023). Environmental Entanglements in Asian America. Journal of Asian American Studies, 26(3). https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51208
Kang, S., & Park, L. S. H. (2023). Introduction. Journal of Asian American Studies, 26(3), 303-314. https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a913081
Derocher, P., Kang, S., Nagar, R., & Madison, D. S. (2022). A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams. In A. Chatterjea, H. Wilcox, & A. L. Williams (Eds.), Dancing Transnational Feminisms: Ananya Dance Theatre and the Art of Social Justice (pp. 227-245). (Decolonizing Feminisms: Antiracist and Transnational Praxis). University of Washington Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2902b44.25
Kang, S. (2022). What Is Refugee Resilience? Reframing Survival under Environmental Sacrifice. American Studies, 61(3), 43-76. https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.0002
Kang, S. (2021). Taking Langar: Ancestral Blueprints for Mutual Aid and Abolition. In S. Y. Shin (Ed.), What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family Minnesota Historical Society Press.