Graduate Student Directory

- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Co-Director of the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive
- 2020 CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellow
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Phone (949) 422-3374
- Website
- Office Location
- Remote work location, Email me for Zoom Link!
- Office Hours Appointment only
- Mail Stop History Department
Research Interests
- US empire and colonialism in the Pacific
- Transpacific Filipinx migration
- Photography as a tool of colonial representation and subaltern resistance
- Snapshots of everyday life and self-representations
- Photograph albums, orality, and materiality
- Public history and community-driven archiving
Biography, Education and Training
M.A. History, University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A., History summa cum laude, University of California, Irvine
Honors, Awards and Grants
- The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2022
- The Humanities Insititute Public Fellowship 2021-2022
- Social Science Research Council's Dissertation Proposal Development Program (SSRC-DPD) 2020
- The Humanities Institute Summer Research Fellowship 2020
- CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship 2020
- National Humanities Center GSSR Fellow 2020
- Regent's Fellowship 2018-2019
Teaching Interests
- Asian American history
- History of photography
- US Empire in the Pacific
- Public History
Instructor of Record Experience
- San Jose State University, AAS1: Introduction to Asian American Studies
Teaching Assistant Experience
- History 80X: World War II Memories in the U.S. and Japan
- History 10A: US History to 1877
- History 10B: US History 1877-1977
- History 80Y: Grassroots Movements and Social Change
- History 13: Introduction to American Religious Culture
- History 59: History of the English Language
- History 81: Science in the Colonial World