Dr. Xavier is the Director of the Portuguese and Macanese Studies Project, 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 also 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 published papers and CV-Resume are on Academia.edu.
Dr. Xavier also is the President of the Alianca Internacional Macaense (AIM), an international consulting firm with offices in Macau, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. AIM is a network of American and Portuguese business professionals and technical experts in the United States, Canada, and Europe. They are among 1.6 million descendants of Macau and over 42 million people of Portuguese ancestry around the world. Information about AIM can be found at Alianca Internacional Macaense – International Macanese Alliance.
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. 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, providing cable TV, mobile, and ISP services to 90,000 users in Richmond, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Albany, and Berkeley.
