Dylan Rodríguez is President-Elect of the American Studies Association (2020–2021), the faculty-elected Chair of the UC Riverside Academic Senate (2016–2020), and a professor at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime (University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). His next book, White Reconstruction, will be published by Fordham University Press in 2020.