Minh-Ha Pham

Minh-Ha T. Pham is Professor of Media Studies. Her research investigates the intersection of gender, race, and labor under global and digital capitalism.

She’s published two books — Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging (Duke UP 2015) and Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property (Duke UP 2022) — and more than 40 articles focusing on the racial and gender patterns of increasingly casualized fashion work under global and digital capitalism.

Her current project continues to examine ethnic labor – this time, focusing on the Vietnamese culinary community in New York City. She’s also working on a community-engaged archival project called Tomorrow’s Table with NYU colleague Thuy Linh Tu.

Her recent published articles include:

• “A Story as Old as Cha Gio,” in Gastronomica (February 2026)
• “A World Without Sweatshops: Abolition Not Reform” in Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice edited by Alisa Bierria, Jakeya Caruthers, and Brooke Lober for Haymarket Books in 2022
• “To Slow Down Death,” in a special issue of Social Text on the theme “Sociality at the End of the World” in 2022
• “‘How to Make a Mask,’ or the Racialized Value of Women’s Work in the COVID-19 Era” in the journal Feminist Studies in 2020

PhD, 2007, Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

• Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property (Duke University Press 2022)
• Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging (Duke University Press 2015)
• “A World Without Sweatshops: Abolition Not Reform” in Abolition Feminisms: Organizing, Survival, and Transformative Practice (Haymarket Books, 2022).
• “‘How to Make a Mask’: Quarantine Feminism and Global Supply Chains,” Feminist Studies 46.2 (2020)
• “As Fashion Lines are Praised for Making Masks, Don’t Ignore Garment Workers,” Truthout.org (2020)
• “How to Fix the Fashion Industry’s Racism,” The New Republic (2019)
• “Stories the Fashion Media Won’t Tell,” The Nation (2019)