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Chou is a Florida native, where her parents emigrated from Taiwan in the 1970s. She attended Florida State University earning a bachelor's degree in sociology. She spent six years working for Eckerd Youth Alternatives at Camp E-Nini-Hassee, a non-profit therapeutic wilderness camp for at-risk girls, before moving to Texas in 2005 for graduate school at Texas A&M University and to play rugby for the Austin Valkyries. She co-authored the book, The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, in 2008 with Joe R. Feagin. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology with an emphasis on race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality in May 2010. She has been awarded the 2010-2011 Samuel DuBois Cook Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS). REGSS is affiliated with the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Rosalind is currently working on her second book, Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality.