NCID-2860
Juben Rabbani
Adjunct Faculty (CSUF) and Senior Principal (JDP)
California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) / J.D. Power (JDP)
About
Juben has spent his academic and professional career as a qualitative researcher, consultant, and teacher. He is Adjunct Faculty at CSU Fullerton, teaching Ethnic Studies through the Department of Asian American Studies. He is also Senior Principal with the Global Automotive Consulting group at J.D. Power and works with every global automotive manufacturer, helping them improve the quality of their products using quantitative and qualitative methods and perspectives. A member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee at J.D. Power, Juben was the chief architect and analyst of the company’s first DEI survey deployed to the employee body. As an executive advisor to a program in the Social Sciences and Humanities division at CSUF focused on career development, Juben also teaches to undergraduate students how to apply social science and humanities perspectives in various industries.
Current Work
The research and scholarship of Juben Rabbani focuses on equity and inclusion in various spaces where it has historically lacked. His recent work examined the experiences in both the classroom and workforce as a way to understand how racial stereotypes are constructed and experienced. His current research examines the energy transition that is currently underway - particularly the Electric Vehicle space. Here, Juben is interested in the mineral extraction phase, the narratives created around extraction, human rights abuses, and global capital. This work is concerned with both a just climate and environmental transitions. His previous work examined the US-Mexico borderlands as a way to interrogate how immigration policy renders invisible migrant death, human rights abuse, and history.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Intersectionality / Critical Race Theory, Bamboo ceiling, Ethnic Studies / Race / Ethnicity, Energy, Just, and Environmental transitions, Hegemonic narratives