Hometown:
San Francisco, California, USA
About Me:
I am a Lecturer in Global Studies at the National University of Singapore. I received my PhD in Anthropology with a designated emphasis in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of California, Riverside. My work analyzes how disaster-affected people in the Philippines navigate infrastructural inequalities for survival in the context of intensifying extreme weather events in the climate crisis. My dissertation, “Tuning in to Survive: Media and Disaster Mitigation in Post-Yolanda Philippines,” is an ethnography of infrastructure which analyzes how typhoon-affected people in the Philippines navigate disaster media (received through television, radio and mobile phones) to survive annual typhoons. I am committed to making insights from my research useable across multiple sectors addressing social justice in disaster, environment and infrastructure; and, open to exploring new ways to make this possible.
Research interests: disaster, media, infrastructure, vulnerability, environment, ethnographic, autoethnographic, participatory and experiemental methods.
As an educator-track academic, I am intentional about crafting my courses to prepare students with thinking skills needed to understand and navigate an increasingly globalized world.
Courses taught include:
My teaching style is inspired by learner-centered, blended/multi-modal, transformative, feminist and emancipatory directions.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnography
Area(s) of Expertise
disaster anthropology, ethnography of infrstructure
Current Area of Employment
Higher Education Institution
