Dr. Perillo is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He is also affiliated faculty with the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and the Center for Philippine Studies at UHM. He has taught at UC Berkeley, UCLA, California State University Dominguez Hills, Cornell University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Perillo was a Fulbright scholar to research Hip Hop in Asia for his first book, Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism (Oxford University Press 2020) which features interviews from over 80 key artists and organizers and utilizes bilingual ethnography, choreographic analysis, and community engagement to examine Black cultural expression in relation to Filipino racialization. His other research is featured in Theatre Journal, Dance Research Methodologies, and The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. Learn more about his book, teaching, and community engagements here: https://choreographingincolor.com/