Junzi Huang

I am a social theorist and education scholar. I teach, research, and write about education and social changes, decolonial pedagogies, affect theory, gender politics and Disability activism in global social movements. I look at how bodies, emotions, perceptions, and resistance take shape in everyday life worlds and their encounters with power in educational settings. I have published in Global Education, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Continental Philosophy of Education, Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education, and elsewhere. My current book project explores the intricated processes in which our attention (and distraction) becomes a psychological object of global intervention.

I currently teach “The Political and Cultural Geography of East Asia” (Geog 311f) and an Honors Seminar “Eating the Globe: The Diverse, Weird, and Queer Food Politics” (HNRS 195H-008). As an education activist, I am interested in cultivating and experimenting knowledge production practices in universities, schools and beyond. I take joy in preparing students with methods and theory to conduct a fun and critical anatomy of global phenomena that affect their everyday lives. In addition to teaching in higher education, I also spent years committing to teach in non-profit settings, underserved communities of migrant workers, and borderland regions, creating workshops of creative writing for migrant students and children living with non-neurotypical conditions.