GJ Sevillano
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Asian American Studies (Global Asian Studies Program, Dept. of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies)
From Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles, Dr. GJ Sevillano (he/him) is an interdisciplinary scholar with research interests in Filipino American studies, critical food studies, cultural and social history, and queer diasporas. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in American Studies from The George Washington University. He also holds a B.A. in Politics and Certificate in American Studies from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. His book project, Knows-to-Tale: Culinary Epistemologies and Filipino American Diasporic Gastropoetics examines the cultural politics and rhetorics of racial consumption that tether Filipino American identity formation to food and foodways. His written work can be found in Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Ampersand: An American Studies Journal, and The Recipes Project.
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Education
Ph.D., American Studies, The George Washington University
M.A., American Studies, The George Washington University
B.A., Politics, Princeton University -
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