Thy Phu is a Canadian author and academic who is a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice at the University of Toronto.
Phu has a master's degree in English from McMaster University,[1] and a PhD from the University of California Berkeley.
She undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto.[2]
Phu is a professor of media studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where she is also a distinguished professor of race, diaspora and visual justice.[3]
She was previously faculty at Western University and taught at the National University of Singapore as well as Yale University.[4]
She is the director of The Family Camera Network, a research project that supports local communities to create antiracist public archive photography. She co-founded the Critical Refugee Studies Network of Canada, and she is a co-editor of Trans Asia Photography journal.
She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.
She has written and co-edited four books: