Essays

Ferry terminal by the sea with mountains in the background

PICA-WA meets Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander needs with resourcefulness, solidarity, and care

In International Examiner, Volume 52, Number 12, December 2025.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa talks authoritarianism, press freedom with award-winning filmmaker Ramona Diaz

In International Examiner, Volume 52, Number 11, November 2025.

New ICHS senior center designed to support community members aging in place and with dignity

In International Examiner, Volume 52, Number 10, October 2025.

Delays, uncertainty, and opportunity as plans for CID Sound Transit station continue to be in flux

In International Examiner, Volume 52, Number 9, September 2025.

“Big Beautiful Bill” Restricts Safety Net Programs, Spells Trouble for Seattle’s Vulnerable

In International Examiner, Volume 52, Number 8, August 2025.

Passionate Engagements, Intimate Entrapments: Love, War, and Those Caught Between Empire and Nation

Unsettling Islands: Philippine Cinema, Migration, and Settler Colonialism

A String of Specters: Reflections on the Haunting in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

In Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, Volume 56, Issue 2, “Southeast Asia: Comparisons and Cross-Border Linkages,” 2020.

Shooting Paradise: The Filipinos in the American Gaze

Restructuring an Assessment Leadership Institute During the 2020 Pandemic

Co-written with Yao Zhang Hill and Monica Stitt-Bergh
In Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2020.

A Nation Imagined Differently: The Critical Impulse of 1950s Indonesian Cinema

Cover of Southeast Asia on Screen

To the Filipinx Youth by Adrian Alarilla

In Marías at Sampaguitas, July 2020.

Book review of Writing the South Seas by Brian Bernards