Milla Wu

Milla Jingtong Wu (any pronouns) holdds a B.A.s in Black Studies and English from University California Santa Barbara. Prior to matriculating at UMD, they were the academic advisor for the Black Studies department at UCSB. Their primary research interests include the histories and material effects of racialization in U.S. Chinatowns, the construction of deviancy in urban geographies, carcerality within the homeless services sector, and ethnographies of how homeless drug users understand their autonomy and interface with homeless services. Their research is driven by politics of harm reduction, anti-carcerality, and Marxist analysis and politics. Their other interests include East Asian Marxist studies, particularly Chinese and Korean constructions of socialism, and the political economy of Taiwan pre- and post-1949.