Laura Y. Liu is Associate Professor of Global Studies and Geography and Affiliate Faculty in Sociology. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of space, identity, visuality, politics, and power. Her research examines the relationship between political organizing and socio-spatial knowledge, especially around uneven working and living conditions, and toward the redistribution of resources and power. In particular, her work focuses on community and labor organizing; migration and urban/global development; and the interplay of spatial politics with art and design. She is interested in creative, experimental, and multi-modal approaches to research and organizing, and the collective production of knowledge and analysis.
She has written about militarized border spaces; anti-sweatshop organizing; geography and industry in art; digital technologies, labor, and urban space; and the impact of September 11 on Chinatown. Her articles have appeared in Women’s Studies Quarterly; Urban Geography; Gender, Place, and Culture; and Social and Cultural Geography.
At The New School, Liu is co-founder, with Ujju Aggarwal, of Praxis Tank, dedicated to elevating knowledge borne from freedom struggles; and the practices-pedagogies-experiments that advance collective transformation and movements for liberation. Liu is also a member of the collaborative Multiple Mobilities Research Cluster.
Liu serves on the Advisory Board of the Urban Studies Program at Guttman Community College, CUNY. She is an inaugural member of the Ann Snitow Prize Organizing Committee.