Linda Luu is an interdisciplinary historian of U.S. race, empire, and the human sciences. Linda received a PhD in American Studies from New York University in 2026. Their research and teaching interests include U.S. race and ethnic studies, war and militarism, affect and embodiment, and the politics of science, health, and medicine.

Linda is currently working on a book manuscript titled Psychology’s Deployments: U.S. Counterinsurgency, Trauma, and the Individualization of Disorder, which examines how psychological expertise became central to U.S. liberal counterinsurgency in the second half of the 20th century.

Linda graduated from Hunter College with a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Asian American Studies. Outside of academia, Linda is involved in efforts against criminalization in New York City.