Michael Omi

Michael Omi is a professor of Asian American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award — an honor bestowed on only 232 UC Berkeley faculty members since the award’s inception in 1959. He is the co-author of Racial Formation in the United States, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place.