H. L. T. Quan
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Phone: 480-727-8461
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WILSN 204 TEMPE, AZ 85287-0403
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Mail code: 4308Campus: Tempe
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H. L. T. QUAN is a political theorist and an award-winning filmmaker. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She is also an affiliate faculty member in African/African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and the Sidney Poitier New American Film School at ASU. Her research and teaching focus on radical thought and praxis, including feminist consciousness and activism, utopian thought and speculative living, data justice, and the Black Radical Tradition.
Quan is the author of Growth Against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World (Lexington Books, 2012) - a radical critique of modern development and economic thought, including neoliberalism, and the editor of Cedric J. Robinson: On Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance, (Pluto Press, 2019). She recently completed her monograph, Against Tyranny: A Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living - an in depth study of willful refusals against various terms of order.
As a filmmaker, she collaborates with C.A. Griffith, including co-producing/directing three feature length documentaries, Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama - A Conversation on Life, Struggles, & Liberation (2009); America’s Home (2014), a film about gentrification and displacement in Puerto Rico; and Queer, Broke & Amazing! (2022), a film on LGBTQ+ people in the United States and their struggles for economic justice. In 2020, Quan was the Editor in Residence for the social justice related blog Praxis, featuring more than 40 unique essays from writers from all over the world.
She and C.A. Griffith co-founded QUAD Productions, a non-profit media collective in 1999. Through QUAD, they have produced over a dozen short and three feature-length documentaries – all focusing on various social justice campaigns. In spring of 2010, QUAD co-produced the short documentary Arizona Women and Children Rise: Resisting SB1070 in collaboration with Third World Newsreel (TWN) for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Puente Movement. QUAD’s footage was quickly edited in New York by TWN to create an eighteen-minute cut that was sent to the White House and members of Congress in May 2010 to challenge Arizona's racist, anti-immigration law. For more information on Quan and Griffith's feminist film praxis see their interview with Chandra Talpade-Mohanty and Linda E. Carty in the Feminist Freedom Warrior Video Archive.
Professor Quan has been an educational volunteer for the College Program at a federal prison in Arizona for more than 15 years.
Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara
Race, gender and radical political thought
Social movements
Democratic theories
Anarchy
Race, gender and wealth formations
Black wealth
Black Radical Thought
Radical epistemologies
Feminist filmmaking as democratic social research
- H. L. T. Quan. Growth Against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World. (2012).
- C. A. Griffith & H. L. T. Quan. América's Home. (2012).
- C. A. Griffith & H. L. T. Quan. América's Home. (2011).
- C. A. Griffith & H. L. T. Quan. Arizona Women and Children Rise: Resisting SB 1070. (2010).
- C. A. Griffith H. L. T. Quan. Mountains That Take Wing/Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation. (2009).
- H. L. T. Quan. Race, Immigration and the Limits of Citizenship. Race and Human Rights (2008).
- H. L. T. Quan. Geniuses of Resistance: Feminist Consciousness and the Black Radical Tradition. Race & Class: A Journal on Racism, Empire and Globalisation (2005).
- . Geniuses of Resistance: Feminism Consciousness and the Black Radical Tradition. (2005).
- Helen Quan. Race, Nation and Diplomacy: Japanese Immigrants and the Reconfiguration of Brazil's 'Desirables'. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture (2004).
- Helen Quan, C Griffith. The Many Faces of Globalism and the Challenges of Documentary Filmmaking. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism (2002).
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 460 | Feminism and Justice |
JUS 633 | Community Research |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 599 | Thesis |
JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 640 | Theoretical Perspect/Justice |
JUS 321 | Wealth Distribution & Poverty |
JUS 792 | Research |
2024 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 792 | Research |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 588 | Justice and the Mass Media |
SST 595 | Continuing Registration |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 598 | Special Topics |
JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 640 | Theoretical Perspect/Justice |
JUS 105 | Intro to Justice Studies |
JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 321 | Wealth Distribution & Poverty |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 799 | Dissertation |
WST 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 640 | Theoretical Perspect/Justice |
JUS 588 | Justice and the Mass Media |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
WST 792 | Research |
JUS 303 | Justice Theory |
JUS 633 | Community Research |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
WST 792 | Research |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 493 | Honors Thesis |
JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 321 | Wealth Distribution & Poverty |
JUS 593 | Applied Project |
JUS 430 | Soc Protest/Conflict & Change |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
JUS 593 | Applied Project |
JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
WST 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 691 | Seminar |
JUS 588 | Justice and the Mass Media |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 592 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
JUS 493 | Honors Thesis |
JUS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
JUS 590 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 592 | Research |
JUS 599 | Thesis |
JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 321 | Wealth Distribution & Poverty |
JUS 593 | Applied Project |
JUS 430 | Soc Protest/Conflict & Change |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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JUS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
JUS 493 | Honors Thesis |
JUS 498 | Pro-Seminar |
JUS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
JUS 590 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 592 | Research |
JUS 593 | Applied Project |
JUS 599 | Thesis |
JUS 790 | Reading and Conference |
JUS 792 | Research |
JUS 799 | Dissertation |
JUS 501 | Justice Theory |
JUS 214 | The Pursuit of Justice |
- H. L. T. Quan. Democratic Anarchism & the Art of Being Ungoverned. Fanaticism and the Abolition Democracy: Critical Theory in the Spirit of Joel Olsen (Jan 2013).
- H. L. T. Quan. Jobs with Justice: Economic Justice & the Legacy of Bayard Rustin. Social Justice in the Academy Summit (Jan 2013).
- H. L. T. Quan. Gentrification, Displacement & Empire: No Se Vende! A Conversation about Filming Resistance in Puerto Rico. American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Nov 2012).
- H. L. T. Quan. Rememory & Enactment-Fugitive History and the Contemporary Struggles Against Urban Displacement in San Juan, Puerto Rico. National Conference of Black Political Scientists Annual Meeting (Mar 2012).
- H. L. T. Quan. Racial Capitalism, White Supremacy, and Tea Party Politics. Public Lecture (Sep 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Mobilizing Pan-Asian America: A Status Report. Public Address (Sep 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Filming Resistance: Contemporary Activism and the Media Arts. Public Lecture (Apr 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Feminist Dialogic: Documentary Filmmaking and Storytelling. Public Lecture (Mar 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Doing Ethnic Studies: Filming Social Movements. Ethnic Studies Now! A Symposium on Ethnic Studies (Mar 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Racial Capitalism, White Supremacy & the Tea Party. National Conference of Black Political Scientists Annual Meeting (Mar 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Liberationist Subjectivity, Critical Black Studies & the Scholarship of Cedric J. Robinson. Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide: Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriachy/White Suprem (Mar 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Feminist Documentary Filmmaking. Public Lecture (Feb 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Documentary Filmmaking, Politics & Social Justice. Fourth Biennial Winter Institute for Black Studies (Feb 2011).
- H. L. T. Quan. Feminist Collaboration, Documentary Filmmaking and Democratic Knowledge. Democratizing Knowledge Project: Developing Literacies, Building Communities, Seeding Change (Oct 2010).
- H. L. T. Quan. State Addiction and Ungovernmentality. American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Oct 2010).
- H. L. T. Quan. Mountains That Take Wing: Documentary Filmmaking as Critical Social Inquiry. Making the Future: The Scope and Limits of Social Change, Future of Minority Studies National Colloq (Jul 2010).
- C. A. Griffth H. L. T. Quan. Mountains That Take Wing/Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation. Local to Global Justice Teach In (Feb 2010).
- C. A. Griffith H. L. T. Quan. Mountains That Take Wing/Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation. University Film and Video Association Annual Meeting (Aug 2009).
- C. A. Griffith H. L. T. Quan. The Angela Davis Project (working Title). University of California, Irvine (May 2009).
- H. L. T. Quan C. A. Griffith. The Angela Davis Project (working title). Feminisms and Intersectionalities in the 21st Century (May 2009).
- H. L. T. Quan. Forging Memories: Feminist & Democratic Filmmaking Praxis. Feminisms and Intersectionalities in the 21st Century (May 2009).
- H. L. T. Quan. An Alternative Genealogy of Economic Exchange: Capitalism & Race Making. American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Oct 2008).
- H. L. T. Quan. Rethinking Black Wealth: Theoretical Considerations for the Study of Black Capitalism. National Conference of Black Political Scientists Annual Meeting (Mar 2008).
- H. L. T. Quan. We Will Not Be Moved: Displacement, Dislocation & Dispossession. American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Oct 2007).
- Quan, Helen. Migrating Justice: Race, Democracy and Citizenship. Race in the 21st Century: Fifth Annual Conference (Apr 2007).
- H. L. T. Quan. China in Africa: A Challenge to the US Single World Order. National Conference of Black Political Scientists Annual Meeting (Mar 2007).
- H. L. T. Quan. Whiteness Visible: Community Development and the Problematics of Deracinated Urban Space. American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Oct 2006).
- H. L. T. Quan. Islamofacism, Islamophophia and the Eviction of Critical Thought. Colloquium: International Relations and the Silencing of Civil Discourse (Oct 2006).
- Quan, Helen. Race, Education & Empire: Some Thoughts on Booker T. Washington's "Practical Education.". Race in the 21st Century: Fourth Annual Conference (Apr 2005).
- Quan, Helen. Radical Scholarship: Past and Present. Symposium on Cedric J. Robinson's Radical Thought (Nov 2004).
- Quan, Helen. Rethinking Urban Resistance, Rethinking Revolution: Race, Gender and Grassroots Responses in Global Chicago. Remaking Revolution Conference (Apr 2004).
- Quan, Helen. Of City & Women: Race, Gender & Resistance in Global Chicago. Invited Lecture: Washington State University (Apr 2004).
- Quan, Helen. Geniuses of Resistance: Feminist Consciousness and the Making of the Black Radical Tradition. National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Annual Meeting (Mar 2004).
- Quan, Helen. Holding Ground: The Social Solidarity Economy and Its Relevance for Chicago. Chicago Social Forum (Jan 2004).
- Quan, Helen. Gentrification and Grassroots Resistance in Chicago. Urban Geography Course at Macalester College (Oct 2003).
- Quan, Helen. The New Urbanism: Globalization, Gentrification & Racism in Chicago. American Studies Association Annual Meeting (Oct 2003).
- Quan, Helen. Utopian Pedagogy: Grassroots Media and Democratic Change. Third Annual World Social Forum (Jan 2003).
- Quan, Helen. Beyond Opposition: Creative Urban Community Responses to the Global Spectre of Savage Developmentalism. Center for Black Studies, University of California (Nov 2002).
- Quan, Helen. Thou Shall Not Be Saved: Financialism, Savage Developmentalism and Engendering Development. Women, Culture and Development Conference (May 2000).
- Quan, Helen. Understanding Global Institutions: Challenging the WTO, IMF and World Bank. Communities Confronting Capitalist Globalization: A Conference Linking Human, Environmental, and Social Issues (Apr 2000).
- Quan, Helen. Grounding Globalization: Economic Justice and New Social Movements in Chicago. The Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
- Quan, Helen. Friends, Miracles & Diplomacy: Brazilian-Japanese Relations in the Twentieth Century. Department of Political Science Colloquia
- Sage Publications, External Reviewer (2011 - Present)
- School of Social Transformation/Steering Commitee, Committee Member (2009 - Present)
- Ehinicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, Editorial Board (2008 - Present)
- Ehinicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, Editorial Board (2008 - Present)
- Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal, Editorial Board (2008 - Present)
- The Prison College Program, Educational Volunteer (2006 - Present)
- No Alibis & Third World News Review, Guest Correspondence (2000 - Present)
- No-Alibis & Third World News Review, Guest Programmer/Correspondent (2000 - Present)
- No-Alibis & Third World News Review, Guest Programmer/Correspondent (2000 - Present)
- QUAD Productions, Media Consultant and Trainer (2000 - Present)
- QUAD Productions, Cofounder, Co-director/producer/editor & sound person (1999 - Present)
- QUAD Productions, Cofounder, Co-director/producer/editor & sound person (1999 - Present)
- QUAD Productions, Cofounder, Co-director/producer/editor & sound person (1999 - Present)
- Graduate Committee, Committee Member (2012 - 2013)
- Graduate Committee, Committee Member (2011 - 2012)
- Arizona Dream Act Coalition, Co-Faculty Advisor (2010 - 2011)
- SJSI/Undergraduate Committee, Committee Member (2010 - 2010)
- Undergraduate Committee, Committee Member (2010 - 2010)
- SJSI/Policy Workgroup, Committee Member (2009 - 2009)
- Race, Ethnicity and Politic Best Dissertation Award Committee/American Political Science Association, Chair (2008 - 2009)
- SJSI/Graduate Committee, Committee Member (2008 - 2009)
- Race, Ethnicity & Politics Best Dissertation Award Committee/American Political Science Association, Committee Member (2007 - 2008)
- APAS/Recruitment Committee, Committee Member (2008 - 2008)
- SJSI/Subcommittee on the 25th Anniversary of Justice Studies, Committee Member (2008 - 2008)
- Future of Minority Studies Junior Scholars Conference Organizing Committee, Planning Committee Member (2007 - 2008)
- Race Research Group Initiative to establish an institute for the study of race, ethnicity and nations, Member (2006 - 2007)
- School of Justice and Social Inquiry's Director Recruitment Committee, Committee Member (2006 - 2007)
- The New Chicago School of Economic and Community Development, Member (2002 - 2007)
- Kristal Brent Zook Lecture, Helped the Black Graduate Students Association bring Kristal Brent Zook on campus (2006 - 2007)
- Latino Union, Chicago IL, Pro-bono Researcher/Consultant (2002 - 2006)
- School of Justice and Social Inquiry's Undergraduate Committee, Committee Member (2005 - 2006)
- Africa Initiative, Chicago IL, Pro-bono Researcher/Consultant (2002 - 2005)
- Center for Asian and Asian American Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago IL, Board of Directors (2002 - 2005)
- Video Machete, Pro-bono Consultant (2002 - 2005)
- Conference Organizing Committee (A Symposium on Cedric J. Robinson's Radical Thought), Conference Organizer (2003 - 2005)
- The Asian American Institute, Researcher/Consultant (2000 - 2005)
- Symposium on Cedric Robinson's Radical Thought: Toward Critical Social Theories and Practice, Conference Organizer (2003 - 2004)
- Committee for Community Research Curriculum Development. The Urban Studies Program, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Chicago, IL, Member (2002 - 2004)
- Louder than A Bomb: Youth, Culture and Democratic Change, The Urban Studies Program, Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Chicago, IL, Conference Organizer (2002 - 2003)
- Social Studies Across Borders Series, Duke University Press, Member, Advisory Board (2002 - 2003)