Department and Institution:
Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Bio/CV:
Michael Omi is Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, where he taught for 35 years before retiring in 2021. He is the co-author, with Howard Winant, of Racial Formation in the United States, now in its third edition, a foundational account of how the meaning of race changes across historical time and social context. He is also the co-editor of Japanese American Millennials: Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity (2019). He served as Associate Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, now the Othering & Belonging Institute, from 2012 to 2016 and as the inaugural chair of the Asian American Research Center in 2020. He is a recipient of UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
