- Director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies
- Serves as the President of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022)
- In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate
- Director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies
- Serves as the President of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022)
- In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate
The daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, Jennifer Ho is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies. Ho received her Ph.D. in English from Boston University (2003) and her BA in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara (1992).
She is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies (2020-2022) and the author of one co-edited (along with Jim Donahue and Shaun Morgan) collection of essays, Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (Ohio State University Press 2017) and three scholarly monographs, Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels (Routledge 2005), Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (Rutgers University Press 2015), which won the South Atlantic Modern Language Association award for best monograph, and Understanding Gish Jen (University of South Carolina Press 2015).
She has published in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Journal for Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, The Global South, Southern Cultures, and Oxford American and has been interviewed by various NPR affiliate shows, the AMA Journal of Ethics, the National Committee on US-China Relations, PEN America, Wall St. TV, Liberated Panda, and other news outlets. She is also one of four subjects in Yi Chen’s documentary film First Vote.
Her next two academic projects are a breast cancer memoir and a monograph that will consider Asian Americans in the global south through the narrative of her maternal family’s immigration from Hong Kong to Jamaica to North America. In addition to her academic work, Ho is active in community engagement around issues of race and intersectionality, leading workshops on anti-racism and how to talk about race in our current political climate. Most recently she developed a PowerPoint slide deck on anti-Asian racism & COVID-19, which CU Boulder turned into a website: https://www.colorado.edu/