Jeffrey Santa Ana

Jeffrey Santa Ana is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in English and Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the intersections of environmental humanities, decolonization, and critical ethnic studies, with a specialization in Asian North American and Indigenous Pacific Islander cultural works. He is affiliated with the Departments of Asian and Asian American Studies, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), and Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS).

• Author of Racial Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press)
• Co-editor of Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific (University of Michigan Press)
• Current project: Flood Memory: On Decolonial Land and Water Reckoning, examining climate change through decolonial ecology

Awards include the Ford Foundation Fellowship and Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. His work addresses environmental ruin, migration, and queer studies within colonial and imperial legacies.