Melanie Ng

PhD Program
melanie.ng@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Canada
  • East Asia
  • Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
  • Migration/Diaspora
  • Social
  • State, Politics, and Law
  • United States

Areas of Interest

Chinese Canadian studies, Asian Canadian studies; Asian American studies; race, immigration, and ethnicity in Canada and the U.S., Chinese migrations and diasporas, transpacific histories

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Takashi Fujitani
Lisa Mar

Biography

Melanie Ng is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto studying the transpacific history of Chinese paper family migrations to and through Canada and North America. Weaving together archival documents and oral histories, her dissertation analyzes clandestine Chinese migrants’ contestation and subversion of legal/illegal categories and their impact on Chinese community identity, Chinese racialization, and trans-imperial legal formation.

Education

MA, Queen's University
B.Ed, Queen's University
BA (Hons), Queen's University

Cohort

  • 2019-2020