Tzu-I Chung
Dr. Tzu-I Chung is an award-winning museum practitioner and cultural and social historian. Her community-centered and place-based practices have served as the foundation for her extensive work with diverse diasporic communities on tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and on transnational migration. She has developed and led intercultural community heritage and legacy projects that delivered a range of innovative exhibition projects, curriculum and programming development, and public and academic publications.
For her work on anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, and critical heritage studies, she was named Exemplary Diversity Scholar by the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan, and presented with a Distinguished Service Award by the BC Museums Association. She is currently Curator of Public Programs and Engagement at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, leading the Museum’s public programs and community engagement initiatives. She also serves as a peer reviewer for academic journals and a juror for public history prizes and grants, and as a Member of the Canadian Cultural Property Expert Review Board.