Dr. Amy Fung is a writer, educator, and cultural organizer researching across histories and identities. She is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia University co-hosted by the Department of History and the School of Community and Public Affairs. Her SSHRC-funded PhD dissertation under historian Dr. Laura Madokoro (Carleton University) was a multidisciplinary study on the processes, refusals, and limitations of political recognition via official apologies and commemorations for past injustices and community grievances in a settler state. She is a recipient of the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research. Her first book, Before I was a critic I was a human being was the recipient of one of the 200 exceptional projects funded through the $35M Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program.





