Personal profile

About

Sriya Shrestha is an educator and researcher who has worked on racial justice and community education projects in New York, Detroit, and the Monterey Bay area. She is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Race in the Ethnic and Gender Studies program at California State University - Monterey Bay. Her research and teaching on race formation and gender place US culture and society in a global context. She has published work on the impact of globalization on consumer cultures such as shopping malls, dollar stores, and skin-lightening products in Social Identities, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and The New Americanist. She is also co-editor for the CSUMB OtterPod, a peer-reviewed social science and public humanities podcast as well as a member of the Abolition and Decolonial Education Collective. Her current work looks at the theory and practice of land-based autonomy movements that draw from Black and indigenous radical traditions including police and prison abolition and decolonial ecologies.

Disciplines

  • History
  • Critical and Cultural Studies
  • Race and Ethnicity