Rudy Guevarra Jr
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Mail code: 4308Campus: Tempe
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Rudy Guevarra Jr. is Professor and Honors Faculty of Asian Pacific American studies in the School of Social Transformation, and Affiliate faculty in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. He is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow. His research and teaching interests include relational Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Filipinx American history, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, U.S. labor and borderlands history, transnational and transpacific migration, race and food studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, and oral history and memory.
Guevarra is the author of Aloha Compadre: Latinxs in Hawaiʻi (Rutgers University Press, 2023) and Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Rutgers University Press, 2012). He is also the co-editor and co-author of six additional books, including Culinary Mestizaje: Racial Mixing, Migration, and Foodways in the U.S. (University of Texas Press, forthcoming), and Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawaiʻi (University of Texas Press, 2018). His work has also appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies, the Journal of American and Canadian Studies, the Journal of San Diego History, and Remezcla Online. His current book project is a biography, In Service of the King: Joaquin Armas, A Mexican Vaquero in Hawaiʻi (Beacon Press). Guevarra is also co-founder and co-director of a digital humanities project, the Latino Pacific Archive (LPA) with Dr. Alexandrina Agloro (ASU).
Guevarra was recently elected as a FANHS National Scholar by the Filipino American National Historical Society in 2022. He is also the recipient of the 2019 Barrio Station César E. Chávez Award for Social Justice, the Early Career Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2014, and was a Junior Faculty Fellow for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education in 2008.
- Ph.D. History, University of California-Santa Barbara
- M.A. History, University of California-Santa Barbara
- B.A. History, University of San Diego
Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Filipina/o American Studies, Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies, U.S. labor and borderlands history, transnational and transpacific migration, race and ethnicity, Asians and Pacific Islanders in the Americas, Critical Mixed Race Studies, and oral history and memory.
Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawaiʻi, co-edited with Camilla Fojas and Nitasha Tamar Sharma (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2018).
Red & Yellow, Black & Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies, co-edited with Joanne L. Rondilla and Paul Spickard (Rutgers University Press, 2017).
“The Mexipino Experience: Growing up Mexican and Filipino in San Diego,” Remezcla Online (June 2017), http://remezcla.com/features/culture/mexipino-experience-san-diego-california/?rfb
Yoo, H.C., Jackson, K.F., Guevarra R.P. Jr., Miller, M.J., & Harrington, B. “Construction and Initial Validation of the Multiracial Experiences Measure (MEM).” Journal of Counseling Psychology (October 12, 2015). Online publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cou0000117.
“On Mexipino Foodways: Essay & Photography,” The Asian American Literary Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Fall 2013), Digital Works, http://aalrmag.org//mixedraceissueguevarra/.
“Skin Stories, Wars and Remembering: The Philippine American War,” in Wei Ming Dariotis and Laura Kina, eds., War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (University of Washington Press, 2013): 26-35.
Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Rutgers University Press, 2012).
Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific, co-edited with Camilla Fojas (University of Nebraska Press, 2012).
Jackson, K., Yoo, H.C., Guevarra Jr., R. & Harrington, B., “The Role of Identity Integration on the Relationship between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Psychological Adjustment of Multiracial People.” Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vol. 59, No. 2 (April 2012): 240-250.
“Mabuhay Compañero: Filipinos, Mexicans, and Interethnic Labor Organizing in Hawai'i and California, 1920s-1940s,” in Camilla Fojas and Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., eds., Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific (University of Nebraska Press, 2012): 171-197.
“Filipinos in Nueva España: Filipino-Mexican Relations, Mestizaje, and Identity in Colonial and Contemporary Mexico.” Journal of Asian American Studies (October 2011): 389-416.
Filipinos in San Diego, co-authored with Judy Patacsil and Felix Tuyay (Arcadia Publishing, 2010).
“Rita Sanchez: Oral Interview,” The Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Winter 2009): 47-52.
“’Skid Row: Filipinos, Race and the Social Construction of Space in San Diego,” The Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Winter 2008): 26-38.
Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race across the Geohistorical Divide, 2nd Edition, edited with Marc Coronado, Jeffrey Moniz, and Laura Furlan Szanto (Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005).
“Burritos and Bagoong: Mexipino Multiethnic Identity in San Diego, California,” in Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide (Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005): 73-96.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| APA 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| APA 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| SST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| AFR 212 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| AFR 212 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| JUS 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| JUS 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| APA 340 | Asian Pacific Americans/Media |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
| APA 360 | Asian Pacific Amer Experience |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APA 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| TCL 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| APA 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| AFR 212 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| AFR 212 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| APA 360 | Asian Pacific Amer Experience |
| JUS 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
| JUS 210 | Intro to Ethnic Studies in US |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
| APA 340 | Asian Pacific Americans/Media |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
| APA 340 | Asian Pacific Americans/Media |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| APA 360 | Asian Pacific Amer Experience |
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SST 590 | Reading and Conference |
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
| APA 360 | Asian Pacific Amer Experience |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| APA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| APA 493 | Honors Thesis |
| APA 200 | Intro/Asian Pacif Amer Studies |
| APA 360 | Asian Pacific Amer Experience |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| APA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| APA 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| APA 498 | Pro-Seminar |
| APA 493 | Honors Thesis |
School of Social Transformation Faculty Research Grant, Arizona State University, April 2017
Program for Transborder Communities Research Cluster Grant, Arizona State University, July 2015
Program for Transborder Communities Seed Grant, Arizona State University, October 2014
CLAS Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Grant, Arizona State University, April 2014
AAAS Early Career Award, Association for Asian American Studies, March 2014
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities-GRG Seed Grant, Arizona State University, December 2013
Comparative Border Studies Program Research Grant, Arizona State University, February 2013
Institute for Humanities Research Grant, Arizona State University, May 2011
Hawaii Council for the Humanities Research Grant, August 2010
American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Junior Faculty Fellow, November 2008
UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, March 2007 (2007-2008 academic year)
UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, May 2006
Labor and Employment Research Fund Dissertation Fellowship, June 2005
Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship, June 2005
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, April 2005
Hispanic Scholarship Fund/Lily Endowment Scholar, March 2004
Organization of American Historians Huggins-Quarles Award, February 2004
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Scholarship, August 2003
UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Award, July 2003
All-UC Group Fellowship in Economic History, June 2003
Cornaro Scholarship for Graduate Studies, Kappa Gamma Pi, June 2003
UCSB Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grant, 2003-2004
Pacific Rim Research Award (Mini-Grant), March 2003
Sara Jackson Award, Western History Association, September 2002
Bancroft Library Study Award, UC Berkeley, April 2002
University of California Institute of Labor and Employment En-Route Master’s and Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, July 2001
Center for Chicano Studies Graduate Research Award, UC Santa Barbara, 2001-2003
Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, September 2000
Association for Asian American Studies
Organization of American Historians
American Studies Association
Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association
Critical Mixed Race Studies Association
National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Western History Association
Filipino American National Historical Society
Arizona Critical Ethnic Studies Network
Student Advising (2010 - 2017):
Graduate committees: eight (one as chair)
Undergraduate Honors committees: five (four as chair)
Undergraduate Advisor, Independent Study projects: twelve
Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University, Fall 2008 – present.
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2007-2008.
Instructor, Ethnic Studies Program, University of San Diego, Fall 2006.
Instructor, Department of Social Science, Mira Costa College, Fall 2006.
Instructor, Department of Social and Cultural Studies, Southwestern College, Fall 2006.
Instructor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring-Summer, 2005.
National Board Member, Critical Mixed Race Studies Association (2017 – present)
School of Social Transformation Social Action Committee (2017 – present)
School of Social Transformation Personnel Committee, Committee Member (2015 – present)
Y.F. Wu Asian American and Pacific Islander Student Scholarship, reader (2009 – present)
American Studies M.A. Committee, ASU (2014 – present)
Gates Millennium Scholars Program/Asian and Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (2009 – 2012, 2014 and 2016)
Gates Millennium Scholars Program/Hispanic Scholarship Fund, reader (2013)
The Asian American Literary Review Mixed Race Initiative, Advisory Board Member (2012 – 2014)
Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program, Smithsonian Asian-Latino Project (SALP), Advisory Board Member (2012 – 2014)
MASC Latinas and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry (LOMA), Advisory Board Member (2012 – present)
Critical Mixed Race Studies Association, Program Committee Member (2011 and 2017)
Association for Asian American Studies, National Board Member (2009 – 2011)
MAVIN Foundation, Board Member (2009-2010)
Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC), Advisory Board Member (2008 – present)
Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), San Diego Chapter, Vice President (2005 – 2010)