Carlos Ulises Decena, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Education
Ph.D., American Studies, New York University, 2004
B.A., English, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests
American studies; Black studies; Latinx studies; LGBTQ and sexuality studies; immigration studies; feminist theory; religion in the African diaspora; critical ethnic studies; Caribbean and Latin American studies; social sciences; cultural and social theory; public health.
Biography
Carlos Ulises Decena is Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of immigration and queer studies, and his research looks at where Black studies, ethnic studies, and area studies meet. He earned his Ph.D. in American studies at New York University.
His first book, Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men, was published by Duke University Press in 2011.
Selected Publication
Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men (Duke University Press, 2011)
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