Graduate Student Directory

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