Faculty
Bio
Dr. Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano is a queer 2nd generation Pinay (Filipina American) of Igorot & Waray heritage, born and raised in San Diego, CA (Kumeyaay territory). She has over twenty years of community-based, critically engaged cultural work in the Filipinx American community. Her work draws from women-of-color radical thought to address how intersectional struggles of racism, classism, cisheteropatriarchy, and body terrorism impact us every day. The journey of ancestral healing guides her work in teaching, community organizing, and parenting 3 little ones.
Publications
She is the co-editor of The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader (2018), and a contributing author to the anthologies, Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’ Resistance and Renewal in the Academy (2019); the SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (2022); as well as Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice (2023).
Courses Taught
- ETH 10: Intro to Ethnic Studies (sample syllabus)
- ETH 42: Asian American Experience (sample syllabus)
- ETH 11: Ethnic Images in Film
At previous institutions:
Filipinxs in the U.S.; Filipinx American Identities; Asian American Culture; Intro to Pacific Islander History and Culture; Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality; Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Media; U.S. Women of Color; Youth & the City.