Rachel Kuo

Assistant Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies & Asian American Studies
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Rachel Kuo is an Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She writes, teaches, and researches race, feminist politics, social movements, and digital technology. Bringing together archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, her current monograph, Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity, demonstrates how technologies enhance and foreclose possibilities for political organization across uneven racial and class difference. She works closely with community partners in developing her research, and her longer-term research goals and questions center and engage emergent questions and practices from grassroots social movements. Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Social Science Research Council. She is a founding member and current affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and also a co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective, where she is co-editing the anthology Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities. Her writing has been published in Media, Culture, and Society, Political Communication, Social Media and Society, New Media and Society, Journal of Communication, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. She has also co-edited the World Without Cages and Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities projects with the Asian American Writer’s Workshop. She has a PhD and MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and BA in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
Selected Publication
A Syllabus
Alice Marwick, Rachel Kuo, Shanice Jones Cameron and Moira Weigel
Aug 2021 • Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
Rachel Kuo, Amy Zhang, Vivian Shaw and Cynthia Wang
Dec 2020 • Social Media + Society
Jun 2020 • Wear Your Voice
Mon Mohapatra, Leila Raven, Nnennaya Amuchie, Reina Sultan, K Agbebiyi, Sarah T. Hamid, Micah Herskind, Derecka Purnell, Eli Dru and Rachel Kuo
May 2020 • 8 To Abolition
Salonee Bhaman, Rachel Kuo, Matilda Sabal, Vivian Shaw and Tiffany Tso
Mar 2020 • Asian American Feminist Collective [Zine]
Anne Washington and Rachel Kuo
Feb 2020 • Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 230-240
Nov 2019 • Asian American Feminist Collective [Zine]
Julie Ae Kim, Rachel Kuo, Senti Sojwal and Tiffany Tso
Sep 2018 • Asian American Feminist Collective [Zine]
Feb 2018 • Studies of Transition States and Society 10(2):40-54
Media Appearance
Meredith Clark, Rachel Kuo, Moya Bailey and Sarah J. Jackson
Aug 2020 • The New Yorker
Jun 2020 • Fast Company
May 2020 • Teen Vogue
Apr 2020 • Teen Vogue
Apr 2020 • Study Breaks