Dr. Nolan Cabrera is a nationally-recognized expert in the areas of racism/anti-racism on college campuses, Whiteness, and ethnic studies. He is currently a Full Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona, and was the only academic featured in the MTV documentary White People. His new book, Whiteness in the Ivory Tower, has been called, “a searing critique of how higher education reproduces White supremacy in both loud and quiet ways” according to UW Bothell Dean Wayne Au. Professor Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz of Teachers College further offered, ” As only Nolan L. Cabrera can, this book offers approaches to resisting Whiteness and its privileges while serving as a critical resource for scholars, educators, policymakers, and activists seeking to understand and challenge racial inequities in higher education. The question is, do we have the courage to heed Cabrera’s call?”

Dr. Cabrera’s first book, White Guys on Campus, is a deep exploration of White male racism, and occasional anti-racism, on college campuses – a text Jeff Chang (author of We Gon’ Be Alright) described as “A timely, provocative, even hopeful book.” Additionally, Dr. Cabrera was an expert witness in the Tucson Unified Mexican American Studies case (Gonzalez v. Douglas), which is the highest-profile Ethnic Studies case in the country’s history. He has given hundreds of lectures, keynote addresses, and trainings, throughout the country on challenging racism/Whiteness, creating transformative college campuses, and the expansion of Ethnic Studies programs. Dr. Cabrera is an award-winning scholar whose more than 100 publications have appeared in some of the most prestigious journals in the fields of education and racial studies. He completed his graduate work at UCLA in Higher Education & Organizational Change and Dr. Cabrera earned his BA from Stanford University in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (Education focus). He is a former Director of a Boys & Girls Club in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is originally from McMinnville, Oregon.