About Michael De Anda Muniz
At SF State Since:
Bio:
Michael De Anda Muñiz is an Assistant Professor in the Latina/Latino Studies Department at San Francisco State University. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2020. His research interests include culture, art, community engagement, space, and resistance. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses for the Latina/Latino Studies Department that focus on the sociology of Latinas/xs/os, research methods, art, community organizing, and media. Additionally, Dr. De Anda Muñiz has experience teaching inside jails and prisons, performing at community art spaces, galleries, and museums, and collaborating on public art projects.
He has published about his research and pedagogy in Radical History Review (2020), Latino Studies (2018), Journal of Public and Professional Sociology (2018), and The Latinx Project (2024). He has a chapter in the edited book Educators at the Intersections: Gender, Race, and Class in the Lives of Today’s Teachers (2021, Springer Press) and Latinx Belonging: Community-Building and Resilience in the United States (2022, University of Arizona Press).
His most recent publication is Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago (2024, University of Minnesota Press), a collectively authored book that analyzes the connections between three police “wars”—on crime, terror, and immigrants—focusing on the weaponization of data and the coordination between local and national agencies to suppress communities of color and undermine social movements. Topics include high-tech, data-based tools of policing; the racialized archetypes that ground the police wars; the manufacturing of criminals and terrorists; the subversion of sanctuary city protections; and abolitionist responses to policing, such as the Erase the Database campaign.
