Brad Erickson
Brad Erickson, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, Socio-Cultural Anthropology 2008), is an activist-educator investigating the intersections of policy, public reasoning, cultural practice, and history to perpetuate or resist structural inequality. He is Lecturer Faculty in Liberal Studies at San Francisco State University where he is President of the California Faculty Association and elected member of CFA’s statewide bargaining committee. He served on the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate from 2023 to 2025. He is politically active in his home of Oakland, California, where he researches geographies of displacement and resistance. He serves as a contributing editor to Transforming Anthropology.
Courses Taught
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LS200 Self, Place & Knowing
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LS403 Performance & Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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LS427 Social Movements & the Arts
Service
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President, California Faculty Association-SFSU, SEIU Local 1983
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Immediate past chair, Center for Equity & Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CEETL) Advisory Board
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Contributing Editor, Transforming Anthropology
Select Publications
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Erickson, B. (2024). Mission creep: Enduring race-place schemata of California’s colonial settlements. Public Anthropologist, 6(1), 1-30. DOI:10.1163/25891715-BJA10050
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Erickson, B., & Dariotis, W. M. (2023). Equity and efficacy in teaching effectiveness assessment (TEA). In K. R. Roth, F. Kumah-Abiwu, & Z. S. Ritter (Eds.), Emancipatory change in US higher education (pp. 53–85). Palgrave Macmillan. 10.1007/978-3-031-11124-2_4
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Erickson, B. (2021). Abolish the lecturer: A manifesto for faculty equity. In K. R. Roth & Z. S. Ritter (Eds.), Whiteness, power, and resisting change in US higher education (pp. 215–228). Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education. 10.1007/978-3-030-57292-1_11
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Erickson, B. (2020): Grotesque logic: Catalan carnival utopias and the politics of laughter. Visual Studies, 36(4–5), 507–523. 10.1080/1472586X.2020.1798810
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Erickson, B. (2011). Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics of convivència. American Ethnologist, 38(1), 114–131. 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01296.x