Thy Phu is a Canadian author and academic who is a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice at the University of Toronto.

Phu has a master's degree in English from McMaster University, ^[1] and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley. ^[2]

She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. ^[2]

Phu is a professor of media studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, ^[3] where she is also a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice. ^[4]

She was previously faculty at Western University and taught at the National University of Singapore as well as Yale University. ^[3]

She is the director of The Family Camera Network, a research project that supports local communities to create antiracist public archive photography. ^[3] She co-founded the Critical Refugee Studies Network of Canada, ^[3] and she is a co-editor of Trans Asia Photography journal. ^[3]

She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. ^[3]

She has written and co-edited four books:

• Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture, 2011, Temple University Press ISBN  978-1439907214 (author) ^[5]
• Feeling Photography, 2014, Duke University Press ISBN  978-0822355410 (edited)
• Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, 2021, University of Toronto Press ISBN  978-1487508647 (edited) ^[6]
• Warring Visions: Vietnam and Photography, 2022, Duke University Press ISBN  978-1478010753 (author) ^[7]

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