Education

• University of Virginia - PhD Religious Studies (Modern and Contemporary Religious Thought – in progress)
• Yale Divinity School - MDiv
• Miami University - BA Music and Social Justice Studies (Religious Studies and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies minors)

Research Interests

• Postcolonial and Decolonial Theories
• Philippine and Filipino American Studies
• Christian Theology
• American Studies
• Asian American Literature
• Feminist and Queer Theories

Conference Papers

• "Beyond Grand Narratives: Towards an Archipelagic Approach to the Philippine Quincentennial.” To be presented at the College Theology Society Annual Conference (accepted) in June 2022.
• "Beyond Colonial Visibility and Imperial Forgetting: Approaching the Philippines’ Pasts through Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto.” Presented at the Southeast Regional Conference of the American Academy of Religion on March 13, 2022.
• "Justice and the United Methodist Church: A Queer Response to a Global Denomination’s Crisis.” Presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference on December 1, 2020.

Languages 

• Tagalog (Filipino)