Campus Directory

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History Department

Title Doctoral Candidate

Affiliation Graduate

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop History Department

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."

Master of Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of History (2026)

Advisors: Drs. Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez & Muriam Haleh Davis

• Thesis: "Steady and Assured Returns": Political Economy of the Colonial Visual Archives of Dean C. Worcester, 1898-1925.

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. 

Research Interests

Philippine archival theory; Philippine/Filipina/o political economy; critical historiography; early 20th century Philippines; Marxist theory/historical materialism.

Awards, Honors and Grants

AWARDS

2026: THI Graduate Summer Public Fellowship

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

Selected Presentations

CONFERENCE

2026: Annual Online Graduate Student International Colloquium on Southeast Asian Historical Scholarship, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of History

• Title: Political Economy of Philippine Visual Archives (Roundtable Discussion Format)

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)