Rebecca Jo Kinney is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA. Dr. Kinney’s award-winning first book, Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) argues that contemporary stories told about Detroit’s potential for rise enables the erasure of white supremacist systems. Her research has appeared in American Quarterly, Food, Culture & Society, Verge: Studies in Global Asia, Radical History Review,Race&Class, among other journals. Her second book Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland: Race and Redevelopment in the Rust Belt is anticipated from Temple University Press in 2025. Her third book, Making Home in Korea: The Transnational Lives of Adult Korean Adoptees, is based on research undertaken while she was a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea. Dr. Kinney served as the Director and Graduate Coordinator of American Culture Studies, August 2023-May 2024.
