Adrian De Leon

ADRIAN DE LEON is an award-winning writer, poet, critic, and public historian. He has written and edited five books, including most recently, barangay: an offshore poem, which was named one of 2021’s best Canadian poetry collections by CBC Books, and two academic works, Bundok: A Hinterland History of Filipino America and Balikbayan: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland. With Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Dolly Li, he has partnered with PBS Digital Studies and the Center for Asian American Media to create and co-host two programs, A People’s History of Asian America and Historian’s Take, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and a Daytime Emmy. He was the 2023–2024 Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History at Simon Fraser University, and is currently a professor of American and Philippine histories at New York University. He now resides in New York City.