Explosivity: Following What Remains, with photographs by Andrea Gaffney, University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Public book talk for Shaping San Francisco is archived: here.
Upcoming in Summer 2025: August book talk at Bathers Library, Oakland CA – more details soon. More fall events to be announced.
(with Julie Sze) “Watefront/battlefront: Vallejo’s Black landscapes of resistance against police and environmental violence” published by Routledge. I give a short encapsulation of this chapter for the Routledge Architecture, Urban Space & Politics channel: here.
&…I wrote a small feature on UC Davis memorials in the brand new first issue of the San Francisco Review of Whatever.
Communication
✉︎ Email: jarbona [at] ucdavis [dot] edu *available for video or voice calls by appointment. I have Signal. Se habla español.
Advising
American Studies undergraduate majors: Please reach out if you’d like to schedule an appointment or contact me first with a preliminary draft of your emphasis plan.
Office hours
No Summer office hours. Contact me for an appointment.
I’m usually available for video or in-person appointments (by request). Public or media inquiries, collaboration opportunities, or grad/post-grad research interest: please kindly email me (see above). I can also provide an encrypted Signal link. Thank you!
Pronouns & Pronunciation
he/him/his
My name is in Spanish. It’s pronounced with an audible ‘R’ at the end: Javier. I use Arbona or Arbona-Homar (the H is completely silent and pronounced “Omar” with emphasis on the last syllable, like this: omár). I don’t have a middle name. Arbona is my paternal last name, therefore I’m not “Javier Homar” nor “Professor Homar.” Professor Arbona is fine with me.