Associate Professor, Justice and Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Affiliated Faculty, African and African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies and Women and Gender Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

H. L. T. Quan (Ph.D. University of California-Santa Barbara) is an Associate Professor and an Affiliate Faculty in African/African American Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies.  She is a political theorist and an award winning documentary filmmaker.  Her research centers on race, gender and radical thought.  Professor Quan's monograph,  Growth Against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World (Lexington Books, 2012) is a radical critique of modern development thinking and programs, including neoliberalism and corporate globalization.  Her current book project focuses on ungovernability, anarchy and tools for democratic living. She is also conducting research on the historical and political development of Black capitalism in the United States, with Darryl T. Thomas (Penn State University). Her writings can be found in Social Identities, Race & Class, Meridians, Signs,  and the edited volume, Race & Human Rights (ed. Curtis Stokes).  She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on social/cultural theories; theoretical perspectives on justice; justice and utopias, community research; race, gender and consciousness; wealth and poverty; social protests; and, Black movements in America.

As a documentary filmmaker, Professor Quan is a co-founder and member of QUAD Productions, a not for profit production company that produces media for progressive community organizations and activists. Through QUAD and in collaboration with C. A. Griffith (Associate Professor, School of Theatre & Film), she has co-directed, co-produced, and co-edited more than half a dozen short and feature length socially relevant documentaries. They recently completed AMERICA'S HOME   (2011: 67 min), a visually stunning and haunting film about gentrification, displacement and popular resistance in San Juan, Puerto Rico. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING--Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation,  (2009: 97 min, Women Make Movies) is an award winning film featuring conversations, spanning over 13 years, between Angela Davis, an internationally acclaimed activist and philosopher and Yuri Kochiyama, an 86 year old community activist and a former confidant of Malcolm X. The film showcases two extraordinary women who found themselves in the midst of some of the most important social movements of the 20th century.  Professor Quan also has worked on radio and access television public affairs programs for more than 15 years.

Please visit Professor Quan's production website for more information about her and her media related work: http://www.quadproductions.org/  You may also see her most recent film work on immigration and arizona here <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJik3l2vb1g> and here <http://vimeo.com/12070620>