As a teaching-stream Assistant Professor and a scholar of migration, racialization, and multiculturalism, my focus is on the experiential learning of undergraduate students, especially the learning of first-year students, and to expose students to think about inclusion and diversity beyond celebratory perspectives. I bring course materials that emphasize a wide range of knowledges and contributions by racialized, Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ2S scholars that attend to alternative forms of social and political belonging. As such, my pedagogy includes music, food, creative writing, art work, performances, and social media that engage the oral, aural, visual and tactile senses of students for affective learning. My goal is to intervene in passive learning activities that take place in isolation by encouraging problem-based understanding and to integrate community ways of sensual, experiential, and imaginative knowledge pathways with academic ‘cerebral’ knowledge

My current research project, All in God’s Time: Hope, Conviviality and Place-Making among Filipino Canadian Protestants, is a collaborative study with Filipino Christian communities in Toronto, Montreal, and Winnipeg. The focus of this project is the question of tolerance, specifically, I ask: “what does it mean to be tolerated?” This study elucidates how Filipinos in Protestant congregations are working to create and sustain a sense of place, community, and belonging and the kinds of programs they are developing to support political and spiritual connections within their own communities and with newly arrived immigrants, second and third-generation Canadian Filipinos, and mixed-race Filipinos. Pedagogically, this research will include undergraduate students as a method of teaching, for them to gain hands-on experience with community learning and a deeper understanding of decolonizing research methods and urban anthropology. Previously, my research with multiracial and socio-economically underprivileged Protestant churches in Toronto focused on the political and emotional work involved in sustaining unity and in growing multicultural Christian communities amidst the challenges of doing hospitality. I am co-editor (with Roland Sintos Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan and John Paul C. Catungal) and contributing author of Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility (University of Toronto Press, 2012).

Research Interests

Approach to Teaching

Summer 2024 and Summer 2025

ANTH 2222 (6.0) From Settler Colonialism to Multiculturalism, An Anthropological Approach (Study Away, Vancouver)

Fall 2024 and Winter 2025

ANTH 2110 (6.0) Core Concepts in Anthropology
ANTH 3230 (6.0) Women, Culture, and Society

Winter 2025

ANTH 4320 (3.0) Ethnographic Approaches in the Anthropology of Christianity

Current Courses

Term	Course Number	Section	Title	Type
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH2110 6.0	A	Core Concepts in Anthropology	LECT
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH3230 6.0	A	Women, Culture and Society	LECT

Upcoming Courses

Term	Course Number	Section	Title	Type
Winter 2025	AP/ANTH4320 3.0	M	The Anthropology of Christianity	SEMR
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH3230 6.0	A	Women, Culture and Society	LECT
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH2110 6.0	A	Core Concepts in Anthropology	LECT

As a teaching-stream Assistant Professor and a scholar of migration, racialization, and multiculturalism, my focus is on the experiential learning of undergraduate students, especially the learning of first-year students, and to expose students to think about inclusion and diversity beyond celebratory perspectives. I bring course materials that emphasize a wide range of knowledges and contributions by racialized, Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ2S scholars that attend to alternative forms of social and political belonging. As such, my pedagogy includes music, food, creative writing, art work, performances, and social media that engage the oral, aural, visual and tactile senses of students for affective learning. My goal is to intervene in passive learning activities that take place in isolation by encouraging problem-based understanding and to integrate community ways of sensual, experiential, and imaginative knowledge pathways with academic ‘cerebral’ knowledge

My current research project, All in God’s Time: Hope, Conviviality and Place-Making among Filipino Canadian Protestants, is a collaborative study with Filipino Christian communities in Toronto, Montreal, and Winnipeg. The focus of this project is the question of tolerance, specifically, I ask: “what does it mean to be tolerated?” This study elucidates how Filipinos in Protestant congregations are working to create and sustain a sense of place, community, and belonging and the kinds of programs they are developing to support political and spiritual connections within their own communities and with newly arrived immigrants, second and third-generation Canadian Filipinos, and mixed-race Filipinos. Pedagogically, this research will include undergraduate students as a method of teaching, for them to gain hands-on experience with community learning and a deeper understanding of decolonizing research methods and urban anthropology. Previously, my research with multiracial and socio-economically underprivileged Protestant churches in Toronto focused on the political and emotional work involved in sustaining unity and in growing multicultural Christian communities amidst the challenges of doing hospitality. I am co-editor (with Roland Sintos Coloma, Bonnie McElhinny, Ethel Tungohan and John Paul C. Catungal) and contributing author of Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility (University of Toronto Press, 2012).

Degrees

PhD. Anthropology, University of Toronto
M.A. Anthropology (Collaborative Program in Asia Pacific Studies), University of Toronto
B.A. (Honours). Anthropology, University of British Columbia

Research Interests

Approach to Teaching

Summer 2024 and Summer 2025

ANTH 2222 (6.0) From Settler Colonialism to Multiculturalism, An Anthropological Approach (Study Away, Vancouver)

Fall 2024 and Winter 2025

ANTH 2110 (6.0) Core Concepts in Anthropology
ANTH 3230 (6.0) Women, Culture, and Society

Winter 2025

ANTH 4320 (3.0) Ethnographic Approaches in the Anthropology of Christianity

Current Courses

Term	Course Number	Section	Title	Type
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH2110 6.0	A	Core Concepts in Anthropology	LECT
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH3230 6.0	A	Women, Culture and Society	LECT

Upcoming Courses

Term	Course Number	Section	Title	Type
Winter 2025	AP/ANTH4320 3.0	M	The Anthropology of Christianity	SEMR
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH3230 6.0	A	Women, Culture and Society	LECT
Fall/Winter 2024	AP/ANTH2110 6.0	A	Core Concepts in Anthropology	LECT