Dr. Lorenzo Perillo
Co-Director of the Center for Philippine Studies
Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance
Dr. Perillo earned his PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA, US. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance and is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and a core hui member for the Ahahui Noiʻi Noʻeau ʻŌiwi (ANNO): Research Institute of IndigenousPerformance 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 Journal, Dance Research Methodologies, and The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies.
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Educational Background
PhD in Culture and Performance, UCLA
Email: perillo@hawaii.edu
Phone: (808) 956-5818
Website: ChoreographingInColor.com