Michael V. Singh is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. He received his PhD from the Berkeley School of Education at UC Berkeley in 2019 and was later a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Singh’s research is guided by questions of racial and gender justice in schools, with a focus on Latino men and boys. His work ranges from ethnographic portraits of youth programs to policy-oriented studies with Latino men teachers. His second line of research advances critical theories of race and Latinidad in education. His book, Good Boys, Bad Hombres: The Racial Politics of Mentoring Latino Boys in Schools (University of Minnesota Press), tells the story of a school-based mentorship program for Latino boys in the era of neoliberal multiculturalism. It delves into the complicated and sometimes contradictory racial and gender politics undergirding youthwork. Singh’s research has been published in journals such as Critical Studies in Education, American Educational Research Journal, Race Ethnicity and Education, Urban Education, and Harvard Educational Review.
