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Humanities Division
History Department
Doctoral Student
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By appointment
History Department
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.
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.
AWARDS
2025: Graduate Research Grant (Center for Labor and Community, UCSC)
2025: Junior Scholar Research Funds (Center for Research on Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions, UCSC)
2025: Bordin/Gillette 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 into Phi Beta Kappa, Centre College
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)
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