Kit Meyers
Kit Myers is a transracial/national Hong Kong adoptee and an assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Merced. He was previously a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Merced. His teaching interests include the study of race and other social categories of difference, especially theoretical and legal aspects. His forthcoming book, The Violence of Love: Race, Adoption, and Family in the United States, with University of California Press (2024), uses interdisciplinary methods of archival, legal, and discursive analysis to argue that while adoption is imbued with love, violence is attached to adoption in complex ways. The book comparatively examines the transracial and transnational adoption of Asian, Black, and Native American children by White families to understand how race has been constructed relationally to mark certain homes, families, and nations as spaces of love, freedom, and better futures against others that not. Myers has also published journal articles in Adoption Quarterly, Critical Discourse Studies, Adoption & Culture, and Amerasia. He serves as on the executive committee for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego in ethnic studies and his B.S. in ethnic studies and journalism from the University of Oregon.
When Kit is not working, he loves spending time with his partner and two daughters. He also loves nature, sports, and food (except seafood and mushrooms).