Graduate Student Directory

Research Interests

Philippine gender-sexuality; archival theory; Philippine/Filipina/o culture and political economy; affect theory; Critical Social and Cultural Theory; transnational and Third World feminism; postcolonial theory; Philippine “canons”; critical fabulation. 

Biography, Education and Training

EDUCATION

Doctoral Student, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of History (2023-present)

• Currently pursuing a Ph.D. as a Cota-Robles Fellow. My research revolves attempts to historicize and (re)theorize Philippine canons (broadly defined) and their articulations of the Filipino/a "body" and/or "flesh."

Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics, minor in Religion, Centre College (Danville, KY), summa cum laude/Valedictorian

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis: On Gender(ed) Empire: Diffusion and Translation of Western Male Supremacist Ideologies in the Philippines. 

Honors, Awards and Grants

AWARDS

2025: Bordin/Gillete Fellowship (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)

2024: First Generation Graduate Group Award (DEI Office)

2024: Graduate Humanities Fellowship

2024: Regent's Fellowship

2024: Gary Lease Fellowship (History of Consciousness)

2024: Bettina Aptheker Award for Sexual, Gendered, and Racial Violence Studies (Feminist Studies)

2023-Present: Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz

2023: Graduated summa cum laude and Valedictorian, Centre College

2022: Inducted in Phi Beta Kappa, Centre College

Selected Presentations

CONFERENCE

2024: National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), Detroit, Michigan

• Title: Bamboos: An Origin Story of Filipino/a Flesh (Panel Presentation)

2023: Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago IL

• Title: On Gender(ed) Empire: Diffusion and Translation of Male Supremacist Ideologies in the Philippines. (Poster Presentation)