Bobby Seals

Bobby Seals is a Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, San José State University, within the College of Social Sciences. His scholarly work focuses on critical examinations of resistance movements, African Diasporic experiences, and the impacts of modernity, post-coloniality, and globalization in non-Western contexts.

• Education:
  • B.A. in African American Studies, San José State University
  • M.A. in Ethnic Studies (Africana Studies), San Francisco State University
  • Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies (2022)

Bobby’s research spans interdisciplinary fields such as Marronage, Black Existentialism, Decolonization, Caribbean Studies, and Hip-Hop Studies, with a focus on counter-narratives and transnational corporate accountability. His teaching integrates activist ethnographic research and decolonial methodologies.

He has extensive experience organizing student study-abroad projects and working in the non-profit sector. Office hours are held remotely and in-person at Clark Hall 461, with contact via email bobby.m.seals@sjsu.edu or phone (408-924-5906).