Dr. Rudy Guevarra received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, San- ta Barbara, and is a former UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. His re- search and teaching interests include comparative and relational histories of Asian Pacific Americans and Chicana/o-Latina/os, race and ethnicity, immigration and transnational migration, labor history, and multiracial/multiethnic identity. He is co- editor and contributing author of Crossing Lines: Race and Mixed Race Across the Geohistorical Divide (Alta Mira Press 2005), guest co-editor of a special issue regard- ing race, ethnicity and space for The Journal of San Diego History (Winter 2008) and co-author of Filipinos in San Diego (Arcadia Press 2010). Dr. Guevarra is currently working on his book, Mexipino: Mexicans, Filipinos and the Forging of Multiethnic Identities and Communities. His current research examines the historical and con- temporary migrations of Latina/os to Hawai’i, how they are integrated into existing ethnic and economic hierarchies, and interethnic relations on the islands.
