Anthony Ocampo is author of the book The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, which has been featured in NPR Morning Edition, NPR Codeswitch, Latino USA, The New York Times, NBC, BBC, as well as Latino and Filipino ethnic news outlets such as Remezcla and Balitang America. His new book Brown and Gay in LA chronicles the experience of growing up gay within an immigrant family and community. He is also working with Mary Danico and Faye Wachs on a project on Latinx and Asian American millennials and iGens.
Recent Grants and Fellowships:
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, 2015-2016 ($40,000)
- Cal Poly Pomona, Faculty Professional Development Mini-Grant, “Life after DOMA: The Impact of the Marriage Equality Movement on Gay Latino and Asian American Men,” Faculty Center for Professional Development, $1,000, 2015
Selected Publications:
- “The Future of Tenure: Rethinking a Beleaguered Institution – Junior Faculty Don’t Need More Times, Senior Faculty Need More Imagination,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 7, 2021
- Brown and Gay in LA: When Immigrant Dreams Meet Queer Realities. Manuscript in preparation.
- The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race (Stanford University Press, 2017)
- Contemporary Asian America, 3rd ed. (New York University Press, 2016)
- “Are Filipinos Really Latino? Immigration and the Latinization of Filipino Racial Identity,” in Contemporary Asian America (M. Zhou and A. Ocampo, eds., New York University Press, 2016)
- Zhou, Min, Anthony C. Ocampo, and James Gatewood. 2016. “Transforming Asian America: Contemporary Asian Immigration to the United States,” in Contemporary Asian America (M.
- Zhou and A. Ocampo, eds., New York University Press, 2016)
- “When Straight Acting Lost its Luster: Letting Go of Masculine Privilege,” in Letting Go: Feminist and Social Justice Insight and Activism (K. Valentine and D. King, eds., Vanderbilt University Press, 2015)
- With Daniel Soodjinda, “Invisible Asian Americans: The Intersection of Race, Sexuality, and Education among Gay Asian Americans,” in Race, Ethnicity, and Education 19(3): 480-499, 2015
- “Are Second Generation Filipinos Becoming Asian American or Latino? Historical Colonialism, Culture, and Panethnic Identity,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 37(3): 425-445, 2014 (2014 Best Article Award, Asian/Asian American Section, American Sociological Association)
Interviews:
- “Outbeat Extra: Anthony Ocampo, Ph.D.,” KRCB 104.9 FM (Sonoma County, Calif.), Oct. 29, 2023 (Audio)
- “What Michelle Yeoh’s win really says about Hollywood,” NBC News, March 13, 2023
- “Episode 519: Balikbayan boxes,” 99percentinvisible.org, Dec. 20, 2022
- “Our experience counts as knowledge: ‘Brown and Gay in LA’ goes beyond West Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 5, 2022
- “Anthony Christian Ocampo’s latest book is ‘Brown and Gay in LA,” NPR Morning Edition, Sept. 29, 2022
- “The challenge of being gay and the son of immigrants in L.A.,” Al Día, Sept. 19, 2022
- “New book spotlights experiences of gay sons of immigrants in Los Angeles,” NBC News, Sept. 19, 2022
- “Mia Manansala Believes Food Always Tells a Personal Story,” Catapult Magazine, July 11, 2022
- “Why Ali Wong’s ultrasexual comedy is profound amid fear among Asian American women,” NBC News, March 8, 2022
- “Asian Enough: Anthony Ocampo,” Los Angeles Times Podcast S2:E5, June 8, 2021
- “Inland Filipino nurses risk all on coronavirus frontlines,” The Press-Enterprise, Oct. 29, 2020
- “Phil Yu Of ‘Angry Asian Man’: ‘Don’t Let Anyone Else Tell Your Story,” HuffPost, May 30, 2020
- “Fil-Am leaders weigh-in on pandemic’s impact on immigrants,” Philippine Daily Inquirer (U.S. edition), May 28, 2020
- “120 years after Philippine independence from Spain, Hispanic Influence Remains,” NBCNews.com, Oct. 1, 2018
- “Portrait Of: ‘The Latinos of Asia,” Latino USA (airing on National Public Radio), May 22, 2018
- “Filipino Americans: Bridging Cultures, Redefining Race,” NPR Morning Edition, May 24, 2016
- “The Latinos of Asia, Gay Children of Immigrants, and the Orlando Shooting,” Asian America Podcast, June 21, 2016
Education:
B.A., Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and M.A., Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
M.A. and Ph.D., Sociology University of California, Los Angeles
Languages:
Tagalog (Filipino)