Ekalan Hou

Ekalan Hou is a first-year History of Art PhD student interested in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century photography by and of the Asian Diaspora, transnational migration and labor history, performance and performativity of race, sur-and sousveillance, and American vaudeville. She received her BA with Honors in Art History and English from Stanford University, where she received the Kennedy Thesis Prize for her writing on the photographs of Mary Tape, Lai Yong, and Frank Jue.