Falu Bakrania

Candidate statement

Falu Bakrania is an Associate Professor in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies (RRS) in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Before joining SFSU, she was an Associate Professor in the departments of Asian American Studies and Sociology at SUNY-Binghamton and was an active member of EOC. She received her M.A. in Sociology from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Stanford University. She has extensive experience in program building, having helped build the RRS Dept and the South Asian Studies Minor Program at SFSU. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of the South Asian diaspora; her earlier work focused on the race, class, and gender politics of youth culture (Duke University Press). She is currently exploring the intersections between gender/sexual violence, neoliberalism, class inequality, and media/visual culture.

If elected as a Northern California and Nevada Regional Representative, I am interested in continuing the efforts of AAAS to increase the visibility of groups and issues sometimes marginalized in the field and that highlight the tensions in the contemporary Asian American experience. Having served at two major institutions on the east and west coasts, I also have a strong sense of the regional specificity of issues concerning Asian Americans. Based in a college that bolsters the relationships between the academy and activism, I look forward to advancing the association’s deep engagement with coalition and social justice work. A long-time member of AAAS, I’m honored to give back to an organization that has provided me with a strong and nurturing intellectual community.