Kevin A. Escudero Assistant Professor of American Studies

Kevin Escudero (PhD, UC Berkeley; MSL, Yale Law School) is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. He also serves as Faculty Fellow for the Royce Fellowship for community engaged undergraduate research at the Swearer Center for Public Service. His research and teaching interests include immigration and refugee studies; comparative racial/ethnic studies; social movements; law and society; and critical human geography. His first book, Organizing While Undocumented (under contract with NYU Press) examines undocumented Asian, queer and formerly undocumented activists' strategic use of an intersectional movement identity. This book draws on more than five years of ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews conducted in San Francisco, Chicago and New York City. His second project considers the role of geography and space on undocumented immigrant and refugee community collaborative organizing in the context of demands made on a settler colonial nation-state. He is also interested in transnational activist networks developed to include members of the deported diaspora.

As a Public Voices Fellow at the OpEd Project he has published pieces in Latino USA, The Hechinger Report and Truthout. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Latinx Talk, an interdisciplinary online platform that provides a space for critical dialogue on issues pertinent to the Latinx community today. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, UC-MEXUS Institute and the American Sociological Association. 

Brown Affiliations

Research Areas

scholarly work

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Escudero, Kevin A. 2012. “Multiracial Male Masculinity: A Critical Mixed Race Studies Analysis of Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son.” Asian American Literature: Discourse and Pedagogies, vol. 3, pp. 80-87.

Romero, Robert C. & Escudero, Kevin A. 2012. “‘Asian-Latinos’ and the U.S. Census.” Asian American Pacific Islander Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice and Community, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 119-138.

Interdisciplinary Legal Publications

Escudero, Kevin. A. 2017. "Dual Minority Mixed Race Activists and the Cultivation of Cross-Racial/Ethnic Coalitions in the Post-Loving Era." Creighton Law Review, vol. 50: 725-735.

Escudero, Kevin A. 2013. “Organizing While Undocumented: The Law as a ‘Double Edged Sword’ in the Movement to Pass the DREAM Act.” the crit – A Critical Legal Studies Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 31-52.

Encyclopedia Entry

Escudero, Kevin A. 2014. “Chinese Undocumented Migration.” In Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: An Encyclopedia of their Experience,edited by Anna Ochoa O’Leary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

Reports and Policy Briefs

García Bedolla, Lisa, Nakano Glenn, Evelyn & Escudero, Kevin A. 2013. “Innovation Grant Research Report: Working Together to Improve Campus Climate for Undocumented AB540 Students at UC Berkeley.” UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender & Center for Latino Policy Research.

Escudero, Kevin A. 2012. “Si Se Puede!: Working to Pass the CA DREAM Act.” Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies. 

Valenzuela, Abel & Escudero, Kevin A. 2009. “California Dreaming: Estimates of Los Angeles DREAM Act Eligible Students.” Pat Brown Institute: State of the City Report.

funded research

Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, American Sociological Association (with Lisa M. Martinez, Edelina Burciaga, Joanna Perez, Andrea Flores and Carolina Valdivia), 2017-2018

Gaius Charles Bolin Dissertation Fellowship, Williams College, 2013-2015

U.C. MEXUS Institute, Dissertation Research Grant, 2012-2014

National Science Foundation, Law & Social Science Program, Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2012-2013

U.C. Berkeley Dean's Normative Time Fellowship (full tuition waiver and stipend), 2012-2013

U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Empirical Legal Studies Fellowship, 2011-2012