Patrick Anderson
· Department Professor, ChairUniversity of California, San Diego · Communication
Active 1953–2024
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About
Patrick Anderson is a Professor in the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. He is an accomplished author, having written The Lamentations: A requiem for queer suicide (Fordham University Press, 2024), Autobiography of a Disease (Routledge, 2017), and So Much Wasted: Hunger, performance, and the morbidity of resistance (Duke University Press, 2010). Additionally, he co-edited Violence Performed: Local roots and global routes of conflict (Palgrave, 2009) with Jisha Menon and co-edits the “Performance Works” book series at Northwestern University Press with Nicholas Ridout. Anderson has held leadership roles including Director of the Critical Gender Studies program and founding facilitator for the Social Justice Practicum at UC San Diego, Vice President of the American Society for Theatre Research, and Editorial Board member for the University of California Press. In 2018, he was appointed by the Mayor and City Council of San Diego to the Community Review Board on Police Practices, later the Commission on Police Practices, serving two full terms in this community oversight role. Anderson is a former Fulbright Scholar and Berkeley Fellow. He earned his PhD in Performance Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley; an MA in Communication and Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina at…
Research topics
- Medicine
- Sociology
- Political Science
- History
- Nursing
- Biology
- Gender studies
- Psychology
- Pathology
- Law
Selected publications
Dramaturgies of Policing: Performance Theory, Police Violence, and the Limits of Accountability
Theatre Journal · 2021-01-01 · 2 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingThis essay invokes performance theory about liveness and mortality to consider the relentlessness of police violence in the contemporary United States. Shifting among analytical, expository, and ethnographic modes of writing, the author considers officer weapons training as a form of dramaturgy that sets the stage for such violence to unfold, and then turns to the practice of civilian oversight to examine how communities have attempted to effect change in the culture of policing. Anderson draws…
The Five-Year Life-cycle of the Hawaiian Republic, 1893–1898
2021-05-20 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingInternational Journal of Transitional Justice · 2021-12-31 · 1 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingABSTRACT This article describes youth involvement in the voter-mandated transition to a fully independent, powerful community commission overseeing the San Diego (California) Police Department. We begin by describing the historical context of police violence against communities of color in San Diego, and previous attempts to practice transparency and accountability in public safety. We then situate our work with local high school students to engage directly in the transition process, and to imag…
Études irlandaises · 2024-01-01
articleOpen access1st authorCorrespondingSlimane Hargas misrepresents the aim of my book, its comparative methods, and he misquotes.The aim of the study was to “evaluate Chomsky’s proposition that media output lends itself to a portrait of the world useful to power” (p. 302).Remarkably, Hargas writes: “Anderson […] denies […] widespread French torture, its institutionalised character, and impunity for practitioners”. However, I wrote, “France and Britain pioneered and exported the modern techniques of torture” (p. 131). Further, Fr...
Studies in Musical Theatre · 2023-12-01
article1st authorCorrespondingThis article reflects on the allegorical queerness of one of Stephen Sondheim’s most popular and celebrated musicals, Sunday in the Park with George . The author recalls his first experience of the musical – the televised version of the original Broadway production in the mid-1980s – at a moment when his own adolescent queerness was beginning to find voice, and examines Sondheim’s subtle and typically unmarked incorporation of queerness into his work. Against popular commentaries that have criti…
Recent grants
NIH · $1.7M · 1995
NIH · $243k · 1989
Frequent coauthors
- 40 shared
Scott D. Watkins
Anderson University - Indiana
- 36 shared
Blaise Fernandes
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai
- 36 shared
Gary S. Fields
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
- 36 shared
Laura Serna
University of California, Los Angeles
- 36 shared
Saleem Ahmadullah
New York University
- 36 shared
Sarah Banet‐Weiser
California University of Pennsylvania
- 36 shared
Suvir Kaul
- 36 shared
M Kellogg
Illumina (United States)
Education
- 2005
PhD, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
University of California, Berkeley
- 1999
MA, Communication Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1996
BS, Performance Studies & Anthropology
Northwestern University
Awards & honors
- 2023 Guggenheim Fellow
- Community Review Board on Police Practices (served two full…
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