• Asian American & Asian Canadian Studies
• Queer and Trans Studies
• Transnational Feminisms
• Performance & Visual Culture
• Diasporic Studies
•  Theories of Race & Empire

2025 Ph.D., Women and Gender Studies, The University of Toronto 

2019 M.A., Women and Gender Studies, The University of Toronto 

2018 B.A., Communications & Women and Gender Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

PUBLICATIONS: 

Yoon, Samuel. 2025. Maiden China's Queer Performance of Care in the Wake of the Atlanta Spa Shootings. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 9(3): 209-31.

Yoon, Samuel. 2025. The Past in the Present: An Encounter between Gay Asians of Toronto and New Ho Queen. In Asian Canada Is Burning, edited by Rose Ann Torres, Ian Liujia Tian, and Coly Chau. Brill.

Samuel Yoon is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University. He teaches courses across the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Integrative Studies Program. His current manuscript, Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and Its Queer Afterlives, explores how queer Asian/American visual and performance cultures confront and reimagine dominant ways of documenting anti-Asian violence.