Catherine C. Choy

Catherine C. Choy is a Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Choy's research areas include Asian American, migration, and nursing history. Professor Choy is the author of three books--Asian American Histories of the United States (2022), Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption (2013), and Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (2003)--and the co-editor of the anthology Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (2017). She is an editorial board member of the journal Social History of Medicine and the editor of the Brill book series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World. She is currently researching and writing a book-length biography of Filipina food scientist Maria Ylagan Orosa, who is most well-known for inventing banana ketchup. An engaged public scholar, Professor Choy has been interviewed and had her research cited in many media outlets, including ABC 20/20, CNN, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Vox