Emily Roxworthy

Associate Dean, Graduate Division

UC San Diego

Emily Roxworthy is an associate dean in the Graduate Division at the University of California, San Diego, and faculty in the Department of Theatre & Dance with affiliations to Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies. In the Graduate Division, her work focuses on the professional development and diversity of UC San Diego’s 7000 graduate and professional students, particularly ensuring that those who are underrepresented in their academic programs find the support they need in terms of outreach, access, recruitment, and retention. She formerly served as UC San Diego’s Provost of Earl Warren College (named after the legendary Civil Rights-era Supreme Court Justice) and Associate Vice Chancellor of Faculty Diversity and Equity. Professor Roxworthy is also an interdisciplinary scholar in the field of Performance Studies, where she has published two books (The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II [2008] and The Theatrical Professoriate: Contemporary Higher Education and Its Academic Dramas [2020]). She is also an applied artist who wrote and directed a 3D role-playing video game prototype that models life in a Japanese American concentration camp (Drama in the Delta) and is the artistic director of Workplace Interactive Theatre, a company that performs diversity workshops centered on participatory scenarios.