Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Ph.D. Faculty Profile
Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Leadership
- E-mail: judepaul.dizon@csueastbay.edu
- Office: AE 111
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Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Ph.D. (he/him/siya) is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership. He contributes scholarly and professional expertise on racial justice in higher education. Jude Paul's research agenda focuses on (1) the relationship between higher education and the carceral state; (2) equity-minded leadership and organization; and (3) race-conscious student development. Professionally, Jude Paul has worked in student affairs, including roles in cultural centers, extended opportunity programs, and service learning. He has worked in public flagship university, community college, and Jesuit university contexts. Additionally, he has consulted for higher education leaders in strategic planning for DEI. Prior to CSU East Bay, he was a professor at Rutgers University and 麻豆传媒社区入口, Stanislaus.
Jude Paul is a first-generation faculty member from a Filipino immigrant working-class family in Union City, California. He surfs, reads across genres, and hopes to publish in The New Yorker someday.
A primary focus of my work examines "The Carceral University," referring to how structures of punishment and control intersect with racism and capitalism in U.S. higher education. With Dr. Royel Johnson, we invited higher education scholars to undertake an analysis of the "college/prison nexus," which extends critical work on the school/prison nexus in the k-12 sector. Our working definition of the college/prison nexus acknowledges:
- The adoption of policies and practices that penalize, relegate, and enclose minoritized populations, especially those who lie at the intersection of multiply marginalized identities, thus, enhancing carceral state power;
- Strategic financial investments, for example, prison labor companies and partnerships with carceral agencies, for example, law enforcement, and immigration and customs enforcement agencies, that surveil, punish, and foster pathways to punishment and incarceration for black, indigenous, Latinx, and other marginalized populations; and
- The usage of discourses about safety, risk, and liability to rationalize and justify carceral practices.
Additional research interests and foci include:
- Abolitionist praxis
- Equity-minded leadership and organizational change
- Race-conscious approaches to student development
- Student activism
- College access
- Men of color
- Asian American college students
- Queer and trans students
- Critical Race Theory
- Critical Ethnic Studies
- Qualitative methods
- Ph.D., Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California
- M.Ed., Higher Education & Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont
- B.A., Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley
| Course # | Sec | Course Title | Days | From | To | Location | Campus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDLD 784 | 07 | Diss Cmte Sem IV | ARR | ARR | |||
| EDLD 630 | 02 | Collaborative Research | TU | 4:30PM | 8:15PM | AE-0247 | |
| EDLD 790 | 04 | Proposal Development I | ARR | WEB-ASYNCH | |||
| EDLD 784 | 05 | Diss Cmte Sem IV | ARR | ARR | |||
| EDLD 782 | 28 | Diss Committee Seminar II | ARR | ARR |
EDITED VOLUMES
Suriel, Y., Watkins, G., Dizon, J.P.M., & Sloan, J.J. (Eds.). (2024). Cops on Campus: Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence. University of Washington Press.
SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Harper, J., Kezar, A., Holcombe, E., Ueda, N., Dizon, J.P.M., & Gonzalez, Á. (2025). Protecting Equity Together: Shared Equity Leadership in Restrictive and Precarious Legal Environments. The Journal of Higher Education, 1-26.
Dizon, J.P.M., & Davis, C.H.F. (2024). Campus policing: Eight steps toward abolition. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 1-8.
Holcombe, E., Dizon, J.P.M, & Kezar, A. (2024). Organizing shared approaches to equity work. The Journal of Higher Education, 1-29.
Dizon, J.P.M. (2023). “People who look like me commit crime”: Racial beliefs among campus police officers. The Journal of Higher Education, 1-31.
Dizon, J.P.M. (2023). Protecting the university, policing race: A case study of campus policing. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 16(4), 410-424.