Faculty Portrait

Contact Information

Name: Giselle Dejamco Cunanan, Ph.D

Title: Assistant Professor

Office Location: Amador Hall 551A

Email: g.cunanan@csus.edu

Mailing Address: MS 6013

Office Hours: Tues 12-3pm by appointment. Email first to schedule.

Courses That I Teach

ETHN 14: Introduction to Asian American Studies
ETHN 119: Filipino American Experience (Spring 2024)

 

Publications

Cunanan, Giselle Dejamco, and Marimas Hosan Mostiller. "Building Against the Constraints of the University: Teaching Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies at a HSI/AANAPISI and PWI." AAPI Nexus(Forthcoming, Spring 2024).

Cunanan, Giselle, Artnelson Concordia, and Taunya Jaco. "Ethnic Studies as Social Movement: Resistance in the Face of Public Reaction." Journal of Asian American Studies 26, no. 2 (2023): 233-241. https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901071.

Cunanan, Giselle. Review of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age, by Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, and A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines, by Jan M. Padios. Ethnic and Racial Studies 42, no. 8 (January 2019): 1368-1372. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.csus.edu/10.1080/01419870.2019.1569705.

Cunanan, Giselle. Review of Metroimperial Intimacies: Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913by Victor Román Mendoza. Feminist Review 119, no. 1 (July 2018): 172-175. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0113-z.

 

Research Projects/Interests

Critical Ethnic Studies
Race, Colonialism and Empire
Asian American Studies, Filipinx Studies
Ethnic Studies in K-12 and Higher Education
Abolitionist University Studies
Student Movements

 

Professional Associations

American Studies Association
Association of Asian American Studies