Publications

Books
Epics in the Philippines: A Cultural History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First.
Book manuscript in preparation.

Tinipong Tinig ng Kababaihan (Anthology of Women's Voices): Priestesses to Presidents, co-edited with with Nenita Pambid Domingo (Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2023).
*National Book Award Finalist for Best Book in Social Sciences 2023


Journal Articles
“The Self-Liberated Slave Periquillo Saves the Missionary Juan Pobre: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Origins of the Black Pacific.” Journal of Pacific History (Aug. 2024).

"Oceanic Activism: A Talanoa on Land, Love, and Resistance." Roundtable co-authored with Juliann Anesi, Alfred Peredo Flores, and Kēhaulani Vaughn. Okinawa Journal of Island Studies 4 (Mar. 2023): 156-62

Six biographical essays on anthropologist E. Arsenio Manuel published in Aghamtao:
• Timeline of Manuel's Life, 31: 86-89
• "Manuel Unfinished, 1986-2003," 31 (2023): 65-84
• “Manuel and Marcos, the late 1960s-1986,” 31: 44-64
•  "Manuel Seeds the Field and Attends the University of Chicago, 1955-1960s,” 31: 19-43
• “Manuel Becomes an Anthropologist, 1945-55,” 31: 1-18
• “Manuel’s Early Career to Life during the Pacific War, 1927-45,” 32 (2023): 90-110
 • “E. Arsenio Manuel: His Early Life and Childhood, 1909-1927,” 29 (2021): 149-70.

“(Re)centering ‘Pacific Islanders’ in Trans-Pacific Studies: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Critique, and Reflections from the Diaspora.” Roundtable co-authored with Juliann Anesi, Alfred P. Flores, Christen T. Sasaki, Kēhaulani Vaughn, Joyce Pualani Warren. Critical Ethnic Studies 7:2 (Fall 2021).

“Reproductive Anticolonialism: Placental Politics, Weaponised Wombs, and the Power of Abjection in the Early Spanish Mariana Islands.” Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 44 (Apr. 2020).

“Imaginable as Other: The Representation of Muslims in Zaide and Zaide's Philippine History and Government and Agoncillo's History of the Filipino People.” Mindanao Forum vol. 24 no. 1 (2011): 43-67.


Chapters in Edited Volumes
“The Voice of the Baylan: Recollecting the History of a Lost Philippine Feminine Repertoire.” In Tinipong Tinig ng Kababaihan: Priestesses to Presidents (above).

“Epics in the Early Spanish Philippines Revisited.” In Nicole Revel, ed., Songs of Memory in Islands of Southeast Asia. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Pp. 279-292.


Reviews
Book review of Ang Epikong-Bayan at Iba Pang Araling Folklore, comp. Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino, with a biographical introduction by Galileo S. Zafra (2019). Aghamtao 29:1 (2022): 176-78.

Play review of Fake. Written by Floy Quintos and directed by Tony Mabesa. Playing at Teatro Hermogenes Ylagan, Bulwagang Rizal Faculty Center Bldg., Univ. of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. 6 evening and 4 afternoon playdates from May 7-15, 2011. Social Sciences Diliman vol. 7 no. 1 (June 2011): 106-109.

Movie review of Amigo. Written and directed by John Sayles. Starring Chris Cooper, Garret Dillahunt, DJ Qualls, Lucas Neff, Yul Vazquez. Social Sciences Diliman vol. 7 no. 1 (June 2011): 102-105.

Book review of Sugarlandia Revisited: Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940, eds. Ulbe Bosma, Juan Giusti-Cordero, and G. Roger Knight. International Studies in Social History, vol. 9. Enterprise and Society 11: 3 (Sept. 2010): 651-53.


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Things I Research

Research Interests
Philippines, Southeast Asia, Mariana Islands, gender and sexuality, oral traditions, comparative colonialism, Asian Pacific American studies

Research in Guåhan
I spent two weeks conducting research on seventeenth century CHamoru anticolonialism at the Micronesia Area Research Center (MARC) at the University of Guåhan in July 2018.

Research in the Philippines
I spent about a year in the Philippines in 2009-10 and 2010-11 conducting dissertation research in fieldwork in the Metro Manila area in archives at the National Archives, the National Library, the Rizal Library at the Ateneo de Manila University, the Main Library at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, the Miguel de Benavides Library at the University of Santo Tomas, the Lopez Library, and the Ortigas Foundation Library; and outside of the capitol at the Cordillera Studies Center at the University of the Philippines, Baguio, Saint Louis University Library (Baguio), the National Library (Vigan), the Central Library at the University of San Carlos (Cebu), the Silliman University Library (Dumaguete), the Museo de Oro and Main Library at Xavier University (Cagayan de Oro), and Dansalan College Library (Marawi). I also conducted a very brief foray into participant observation of the Talaandig community in Sungco.

Research in the United States
From July to Sept. 2012, I completed my dissertation research in the U.S. at the Newberry Library and the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago (both in Chicago), the Bentley Historical Library and Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Syracuse University Library (Syracuse), the Thetford Historical Society (Thetford, VT), and the Houghton Library at Harvard.

Research Languages
I am fluent in Filipino and Spanish, near-fluent in French, have some reading knowledge of Catalan, Chavacano, Italian, and Portuguese, and am ever so slowly learning Gujarati (Kathiawar), to better converse with my partner’s family.