Justin D. Garcia

Justin García is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He also frequently teaches courses in African American Studies and Latina/o Studies. García earned his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University in 2011, with a focus in Urban Anthropology. His teaching and research interests include social constructs of race and ethnicity, U.S. immigration, U.S. popular culture, population genetics, and the social ramifications of DNA ancestry testing. Some of García’s publications include “Hispanic/Latino Identity as Racial Misnomer” in Race in America: How a Pseudoscientific Concept Shaped Human Interaction (Praeger, 2017) and “Latin Lords of the Ring: Politics, Nativism, and Mexican/Chicano Identity Through Professional Wrestling” in Identity in Professional Wrestling: Essays on Nationality, Race, and Gender (McFarland, 2018). He is also a member of Millersville University’s Latina/o Studies Curriculum Committee.