Academic Bio

I received my Ph.D in History from New York University in 2022. My dissertation, Transimperial Histories and Racial Formations in Filipino Louisiana, 1860-1949, tells the story of Filipino sailors who came to settle in the bayous of Louisiana in the mid-nineteenth century and studies how they and their descendants navigated the racial landscape of Jim Crow. It has received the following honors:

• Outstanding Dissertation Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

• NYU University-Wide Dissertation Award in Humanities

• Outstanding Dissertation Award, NYU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

• Outstanding Dissertation Award, NYU History Department

My research has been supported by the NYU Center for the Humanities, the NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, and the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan. In AY 2021-2022, I was a doctoral fellow at the NYU Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Public Humanities Initiative. As part of the fellowship, I worked as the Archivist and Research Coordinator of the Black Gotham Experience, a visual storytelling project based in New York City.

I am currently a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at NYU, where I teach courses in Asian/Pacific/American Studies.

Full CV here.