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I am a historian broadly interested in the phenomenological/experiential (sensory, emotional, spatial, and corporeal) and everyday aspects of society, culture, and politics in the context of Modern Europe, the Holocaust, genocide, mass atrocities, warfare/military, incarceration, refugeehood/statelessness, and Western explorations of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean.

In order to center the lived experience and the everyday subsistence of ordinary people, I follow polyphonic historiographies that draw on a diverse array of sources, beyond traditional ones, including but not limited to life writings (such as ego-documents, first-person narratives, and testimonies), oral/vernacular sources, literature, audiovisual materials, artifacts, and residues. My primary goal, then, is to advocate for the often-undervalued significance of everyday life, the senses, emotions, bodies, and spaces in understanding historical lived experience and causality.  

I hold an M.A. in Musicology (Historical Sound Studies) and an M.M. in Performance (Piano) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During the summer of 2024, I became the first Filipino to work as a research fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Further, my research projects have received multiple grants from the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies and the Mead Witter School of Music. Other research and creative projects were supported by the UW-Madison Division of the Arts. My writing has appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies, the International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, and The American Music Teacher.

At present, I am a History Ph.D. student at Brown University, where I also received an M.A. in History.

Research Interests: history of lived experience; phenomenology; the everyday; sensory; emotions; bodies and spaces; politics and culture of the “long” nineteenth century; Nazi Germany; Holocaust; Armenian Genocide; war studies; genocide studies; concentration and internment camps; military history; POW camps; maritime history; ocean history; polyphonic historiography; counterhistory ; musicology; refugee studies