Associate Professor of East Asian Thought in the International and Intercultural Studies Field Group; at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges;  near Los Angeles, California, USA.  My primary location at Pitzer is in the field group (or department) known as International and Intercultural Studies, but I also teach courses in Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, Gender and Feminist Studies and the Five College Women's Studies Program, Media Studies, and Religious Studies. 


E-mail: Joe_Parker@pitzer.edu

I also teach as an adjunct faculty at the Claremont Graduate University in the Departments of Cultural Studies and in the Women’s Studies in Religion and Applied Women’s Studies programs, and occasionally I teach in the Liberal Studies Department at California State University of Los Angeles.

I also work as an activist intellectual with the Eastside Café in El Sereno (see blogspot, Facebook, and Myspace), part of the east Los Angeles community, and with the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies in Claremont.