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Dr. Nicholas P De Genova

http://www.anthropology.uh.edu
Professor and Chair, University of Houston, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies
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ndegenova@uh.edu
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Interest/Specialty Areas Born and raised in Chicago, Professor De Genova is a scholar of migration, borders, race, citizenship, and labor. His academic work has contributed to multiple disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, geography, and political science, as well as contributing to the interdisciplinary fields of cultural studies, migration studies, border studies, citizenship studies, sociolegal studies, urban studies, postcolonial studies, American studies, Latin American studies, and European studies. As a scholar of critical race and ethnic studies, Professor De Genova has been most prominently located in Latino/a/x studies, but his work has also made contributions to African American studies, Asian American studies, Native American studies, and Arab American studies, and in the European context, also to Roma studies. He is also a social and political theorist and critic. Beginning in 2020, following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Professor De Genova was appointed to chair a Special Committee on Race and Social Justice in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston
Biography

https://uh.edu/class/ccs/people/nicholas-de-genova/

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Geographic Areas of Expertise International
Europe / Eurasia
Western Hemisphere
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