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Julia Shizuyo Popham (she/her) is a mixed-race, Asian American woman with roots in the coal mines of Rock Springs and Hanna, Wyoming. She is also a doctoral student in Critical Ethnic Studies at the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø (CU), where she explores art from the Amache WWII Incarceration Camp in southeastern Colorado. Julia is interested in how Amache’s art sheds light on how Japanese American artists navigated what it means to be human within contexts of confinement and dehumanization.ÌýJulia additionally works with theÌý, a non-profit dedicated to preserving the Amache incarceration site and its history, and collaborates with theÌýCenter for Humanities & the Arts, where she helps coordinate projects dedicated toÌýeducating academic and public audiences about some of the most pressing humanities issues of our times. Julia earned an M.A. in Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2022), a B.A. in Music from Northwestern University (2017), and is currently a Chancellor Fellow at CU. Ìý