Kit Myers is an assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced. His research focuses on the ways that race, gender, and other social formations shape ideas and practices of adoption, family, and kinship in the United States through discourse and the law. His forthcoming book, The Violence of Love: Race, Adoption, and Family in the United States (University of California Press, 2024) comparatively examines the transracial and transnational adoption of Asian, Black, and Native American children by White families to understand how race has been constructed relationally to mark certain homes, families, and nations as spaces of love, freedom, and better futures against others that not. Dr. Myers has taught various Asian American studies courses that explore history, literature, and the law. He has published articles in Adoption Quarterly, Amerasia Journal, Adoption & Culture, and Critical Discourse Studies as well as co-edited a special issue on adoption and pedagogy. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego in ethnic studies and his B.S. in ethnic studies and journalism from the University of Oregon.
Qing Zhou, UC Berkeley
Professor, Psychology She/Her/Hers Dr. Zhou is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of Culture and Family Study Lab at UC-Berkeley. Her research focuses on cultural, family, and temperament influences on children’s executive function, socio-emotional, and academic development from preschool age to young adulthood. She and her collaborators have conducted longitudinal studies of Chinese children in Asia, and Chinese American and Mexican American children in immigrant families in the U.S. Email: qingzhou@berkeley.edu Website: https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/qing-zhou LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/qing-zhou-61448b56/