Robert Diaz
Professor Diaz is an associate professor in the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). His research examines how diasporic sexual minorities in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Philippines negotiate with and respond to marginalization. He is co-editor of Diasporic Intimacies: Queer Filipinos and Canadian Imaginaries (Northwestern University Press, 2017) and Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents (Temple University Press, 2023).
His writing has also been published in Signs, GLQ, TSQ, Journal of Asian American Studies, Asian Diasporic Visual Culture and the Americas, and Canadian Literature. Dr. Diaz continues to collaborated with transnational artists, activists, and community organizations to address systemic barriers to inclusion and access.
- BA (English), University of California – Riverside
- MA, The Graduate Center – City University of New York
- PhD, The Graduate Center – City University of New York
How queer cultures in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Philippines create more equitable worlds.