Keren Zou (she/her) is a second-year History Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley specializing in North American history, with research interests in U.S. immigration history, comparative histories of race and ethnicity, Asian American history, and Trans-Pacific studies. Her research focuses on the transnational connections of economics, capital, and culture between the U.S. and East Asia during the period broadly known as "Asian Exclusion" (1882-1943).