CRJ Team
Christine Hong
principal investigator | professor of Critical race and ethnic studies (CRES) and literature
Christine Hong specializes in transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, U.S. war and empire, and comparative ethnic studies. Hong’s current book project titled “The Price of Inclusion: Race, Militarism, and the Pax Americana in Cold War Asia and the Pacific,” which examines the double-fronted nature of U.S. Cold War counterrevolutionary violence and emergent, anti-militarist human rights politics in the Asia-Pacific region following Japan’s Pacific War defeat. She is currently the co-editor of the journal Critical Ethnic Studies.
Domingo Canizales
Undergraduate advisor and administrator to the center for racial justice
Domingo Canizales is a Chicanx writer and educator from Nuevo, CA. He earned his BA in Literature from UCSC and his MFA in Writing and Poetics from The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Prior to joining the CRES team, Domingo taught various subjects as a public-school teacher in Portland, OR where he prioritized working with diverse communities in underrepresented areas. Domingo is currently working on a book length creative project centered on his father’s experiences within the prison industrial complex.