Roy Eric Xavier

Dr. Roy Eric Xavier is the Director of the Portuguese and Macanese Studies Project, and a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley’s “Institute for the Study of Societal Issues”. His research is on the history of Luso-Asian and Macanese communities, and cultural and economic diversity in Macau and Hong Kong, Special Administrative Regions of China. His articles have appeared in English, Portuguese, and Mandarin in the Macau Government’s “Review of Culture”, the Macau newspapers “Jornal Tribuna de Macau”, Ponto Final, and the "Macau Post Daily", the University of Hong Kong’s “Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society”, and in Geoffrey Gunn’s anthology: “Wartime Macau” published through Columbia University. Dr. Xavier was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Macau (Hengqin campus) in 2015. He often previews ideas on his blog, Far East Currents (www.MacStudies.net), then publishes papers on Academia.edu. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and U.C. Santa Cruz.

In a former life, Dr. Xavier founded and managed KCRT Television and Media, a cable television station and internet streaming service, for 14 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also was the Associate Dean of Film and Television at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles for 3 years.