About Us

Nerve V. Macaspac is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS) at Queens College, Doctoral Faculty at the Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) at the Graduate Center, and Graduate Faculty at the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) Program at the Graduate Center. His current research examines peace zones as spaces of community-led and unarmed civilian protection amid active violent conflicts. His research is published in Geopolitics, International Peacekeeping, Geography Compass, and Cooperation and Conflict. He is a Co-Investigator of “Creating Safer Spaces,” a 5-year (2020-2025) international and interdisciplinary research project funded by the United Kingdom Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is also a Co-Investigator of “Building the Southeast Asia Consortium at SUNY and CUNY,” a 4-year (2023-2027) project establishing the Southeast Asian Studies network in the SUNY and CUNY systems funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in Geography at the University of California in Los Angeles, a Masters in Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and his BA in Education at the University of the Philippines, Diliman.

Lara Saguisag is Georgiou Chair of Children’s Literature and Literacy at New York University. Her current project examines representations of fossil fuels and their infrastructures in children’s and young adult literature. She also studies the ways Filipino comics and children’s literature express the afterlives of US empire. Her essay “Labor in the Margins: Filipino Comics Workers in the US Comics Industry” is scheduled for publication in INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society 7, no. 3 (Fall 2023). Her book Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics (Rutgers UP, 2018) received the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society, the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Single Book from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, and an Eisner nomination for Best Academic/Scholarly Work. 

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