The Global Philippine Studies Forum is a research collective formed by NYU graduate students and early career scholars whose respective research interests center on or intersect with Philippine and/or Filipino/a/x Studies . With members working in different disciplines and across distinct archives, periods, and geographies, the Forum seeks to foment interdisciplinary dialogue about the histories and cultures of the Philippines and its global diaspora. Toward that end and with the sponsorship of Sulo: the Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU, we invite scholars, artists, and writers from our local communities and across the globe to join us in this dialogue through invited lectures, roundtable discussions, film screenings, performances, and workshops.
Current Members:
Erica Feild (she/her/hers) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Her research examines representations of Muslims and converts from Islam in historical and literary texts produced in Spain, Mexico, and the Philippines in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. More specifically she is interested in how language ideologies intersect with colonial constructions of religious and racial difference and the politics of race making. She looks forward to new opportunities for conversations with others who share interest in the Philippines—if you’d like to be in touch, please don’t hesitate to reach out (https://nyu.academia.edu/EricaFeild). ebf269@nyu.edu
Matthew Nicdao (he/him/his) received his PhD in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at NYU and is a Research Associate at CENTRO: The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. At the intersections of Philippine, Spanish Caribbean, and Peninsular Studies, his research explores questions of race and nation formation across the literary and visual cultures of nineteenth-century Spanish empire. His dissertation focuses on how the works of writers and artists from the Philippines and Puerto Rico challenged the racial limits of the modern Spanish nation and gestured toward other aesthetic and political possibilities. His research interests include anti-colonial thought and praxis, critical ethnic studies, comparative racializations, and literary and visual cultural production. He insists that everything is (and, if not, should be) about the nineteenth century. mnicdao@nyu.edu
Michael Salgarolo is a PhD candidate in the NYU History Department and a 2020-2021 Doctoral Fellow at the NYU Center for the Humanities. His dissertation is a history of Filipino communities in southern Louisiana from the mid-nineteenth century to the early-twentieth century, focusing on questions of race, migration, and empire. He is the co-founder of the Filipinx Powerpoint Party, which is both an informal salon featuring Filipinx academics and an academic mentoring network. mlsalgarolo@nyu.edu
Emilie S. Tumale (she/her/hers) is a PhD Candidate in Sociology of Education at NYU Steinhardt, a community educator based in New York City, and the Project Coordinator for Sulo. Hailing from the San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles County, she has been eager to learn more about the Asian American community in the New York Metropolitan area. With her involvement in various Filipino American organizations in NYC, Emilie’s dissertation research entails further understanding how Filipino American college students conceptualize their ethnic identity in relation to their geographic contexts. est296@nyu.edu