Jon Cruz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCSB. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. He has written on Filipino American history, and he has published extensively on race and culture, particularly in popular music. His book, Culture on the Margins, was published in 1999.
Professor Cruz's teaching areas and research interests include culture; the sociology of knowledge; American racial history; and media.
