Profile
Daniel Kiho Woo is a doctoral lecturer in Sociology and the inaugural Helen Zia Deputy Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow in Ethnic Studies in the Program in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He also taught courses in Asian American Studies for the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, and Department of History at Drexel University. His scholarly interests include Asian American history, sociology of race and ethnicity, relational race studies, Afro Asian politics, and community ethnography. More specifically, his research and teaching agenda focuses on Afro Asian cultural and political (dis)connections in social movements, popular culture, and everyday spaces of interracial convergence.
Daniel earned his PhD from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley where he was a recipient of the Metro New York Leaders Fellowship Fund. He also holds an MA from UCLA and BA from Columbia University in Asian American Studies. Due to his own formative experiences as a first-generation high school and college student, he has moreover sought to support underrepresented students of color in higher education as a mentor for various academic advancement programs. These past experiences have critically informed his approach to student engagement and mentorship at Hunter College.