Linda Luu is an interdisciplinary historian of mental health and therapeutic culture, currently finishing a PhD in American Studies at New York University. Their dissertation research examines how U.S. empire instrumentalized psychological knowledge to shape new grammars of racialized gender, victimhood, and trauma during the Vietnam War era.  Broadly, their work is concerned with war and its afterlives; the body/embodiment; biopolitics; interpersonal violence; healing; abolition; and the politics of science, health, and medicine. Linda graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. in Sociology and Asian American Studies. Linda is also a member of Survived and Punished-NY and the Chinatown Art Brigade.