Koby Song-Nichols
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Community history, food studies, Asian Canadian Studies, Asian American Studies, public history, race/ethnicity, multiculturalism, transnationalism, oral history, family history
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My dissertation research examines how Chinese food and foodways have fed intercultural, intergenerational and diasporic relations and communities in the multicultural cities of Toronto, Montreal and Phoenix. More specifically my dissertation focuses on how Chinese restaurateurs fought to save Toronto's Chinatown, how Eurasian sisters from Montreal used food writing to construct their identities, and how Chinese grocers grew communities and homes in Phoenix, Arizona. Through learning from community wisdom and amplifying Chinese Canadian and Chinese American voices, my research aims to help us recognize and reimagine the many ways that we all relate to each other and our pasts.
