Graduate Student
Cohort 2019-2020
Biography
Kevin Kandamby is a MexiLankan (Mexican and Sri Lankan) first-generation child of immigrants who was born and raised in Southern California. Kevin’s primary research interest explores AsianLatine mixed identity in the United States to understand how identity formation processes inform what it means to be Latine, Asian American, and mixed in the United States as nonwhite children of the diaspora challenging monoracialization processes.
Education
B.A. Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Minor in Mathematics, Pitzer College
Research
Asian-Latinx identity formation in relation to spatial location, community formation and politics.
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Articles:
2023 Kandamby, Kevin Ronny. “Toward A U.S. AsianLatinx Intervention in Critical
Mixed Race Studies and Interethnic Relations.” Genealogy 7, no. 1, 1—17.
Data Briefs:
2024 Zong, Jie, Kandamby Kevin, and Rocha, Natalie Jie, “AAPI Latinos in the United States: An Overview of the Growing Demographic.” Latino Data Hub.
Book Reviews:
2023 Kandamby, Kevin Ronny. “Multiracial: The Kaleidoscope of Mixedness.” Ethnic
and Racial Studies, 1–2.
Honors & Awards
2025 Institute of American Cultures Graduate/Predoctoral Fellowship
2024 UCLA Gold Shield Ethnic Studies Graduate Fellowship
2023 Towards a Critical Fugitive Transdisciplinary Methodology, Multicampus Graduate
Student Working Group, UC Humanities Research Institute Grant
2023 SSRC-MMGIP Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant
2021 SSRC-MMGIP Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant
2021 Dean’s Fund for the Study of Diversity and Racial Inequality
2021 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Grant
2020 SSRC-MMGIP Graduate Studies Enhancement Grant
2020 Graduate Research Mentorship Grant
2020 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Grant
2020 Graduate Fellow, SSRC-MMGIP
Courses
Teaching Fellow
Theoretical Concepts in Chicana & Chicano Studies (Spring 2025; 32 students)
U.S. Latino Politics (Winter 2025; 49 students)
Politics of Crisis: Migration, Identity, and Religion
(Fall 2024: 87 Students)
Theoretical Concepts in Chicana/o and Central American Studies
(Summer 2024: 15 Students)
Contesting Latinidad: U.S. Mixed Latine Identity and Communities
(Spring 2024: 35 Students)
Introduction to Chicanx Studies: Social Structure and Contemporary Conditions (Summer 2023; 24 students)