About
Mia Aun Silberstein is a Ph.D. student with research interests in the family, race, culture, and epistemic justice. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Philosophy from Wellesley College, where her honors thesis explored the identity narratives of transnational, transracial Cambodian adoptive families through qualitative interviews.
Currently, Mia is engaged in multiple projects on adoption narratives, ranging from visual content analysis of children's literature, analysis of news reporting on lawsuits, and her dissertation work placing transracially adoptive families in conversation with mixed-race families. Broadly, Mia sees adoption as a vehicle for critically examining and uprooting taken-for-granted narratives about familial identity within broader cultural and national contexts. In her work, she is committed to centering and uplifting adoptive (counter)stories in academia and beyond.
Outside of sociology, Mia enjoys spending time back East, where she hides away in the mountains of Western Massachusetts and plays old time fiddle.
