Dr. Xavier is the Director of The Center for Luso-Asian Diaspora Studies, and a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley’s Asian-American Research Center, and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. His research focuses on the history of Luso-Asian and Macanese communities around the world, and cultural and economic diversity in modern day Macau and Hong Kong, Special Administrative Regions of China. His articles have appeared in several publications, including the Macau Government’s “Review of Culture”, the Macau daily newspaper “Jornal Tribuna de Macau”, the University of Hong Kong’s “Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society”, and in Prof. Geoffrey Gunn’s anthology: “Wartime Macau” published through The University of Hong Kong and Columbia University. Dr. Xavier is the author of The Macanese Chronicles: A History of Luso-Asians in a Global Economy (2020), which presents the first documentary history of the Portuguese in Asia from 1511 to the present. A fifth-generation descendant of Macau, Dr. Xavier was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Macau (Hengqin campus) in 2015, where he lectured on cultural and economic diversity. His work in China also has been supported by the Hong Kong Museum of History and the American Consulate to Hong Kong and Macau.
Prior to his directorship at U.C. Berkeley, Dr. Xavier founded and managed KCRT Television and Digital Services in the San Francisco Bay Area for 14 years, and worked for local and state agencies for an additional 10 years, providing cable TV, mobile, and ISP services to residents in Torrance, Richmond, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Albany, and Berkeley. He was the Associate Dean of the School of Film and Television at Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2007, and an ethnic community researcher at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, U. C. Berkeley from 2007 to 2011.
Dr. Xavier received his Doctorate and Masters degrees in Sociology, with an emphasis on digital technologies and ethnic communities, from the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Bachelors degree in Sociology and History from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
