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Associate Professor
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perillo@hawaii.edu

Dr. Perillo earned his PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA, US. He is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Philippine Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Ahahui Noiʻi Noʻeau ʻŌiwi (ANNO): Research Institute of Indigenous Performance at UHM. His research and teaching interests include Indigenous dance and performance studies; race and racialization; Filipinx and transnational Asian American identities; popular culture and postcolonialism; migration, gender, and sexuality.

He has taught at UC Berkeley, UCLA, California State University Dominguez Hills, Cornell University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a Fulbright scholar, Dr. Perillo conducted ethnographic and choreographic research on Hip Hop in Asia for his first book, Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism (Oxford University Press 2020). His other research is featured in Theatre JournalDance Research Methodologies, and The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. 

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