Cynthia Marasigan
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Background
Cynthia Marasigan researches and teaches United States history from the mid-19th century to the present, with particular interests in U.S. Empire, comparative race relations, Afro-Asian histories and US-Philippine and Filipino American history. Her current book manuscript, Embattled Amigos: African American Soldiers and Filipino Revolutionaries at War, explores the intersection of U.S. imperialism, Jim Crow and colonial resistance by analyzing a range of black soldier-Filipino interactions during the Philippine-American War and its aftermath.
Education
- PhD, University of Michigan
- MA, New School for Social Research
Research Interests
- U.S. Empire and comparative race relations
- Afro-Asian histories
- Philippine and Filipino American history
Teaching Interests
- Asian American history
- Race; War; and Citizenship
- Afro-Asian Intersections
- U.S. Empire in the Philippines and Pacific
Awards
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral and Doctoral Fellowships
- Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- George C. Marshall / Baruch Fellowship
- J. William Fulbrignt Grant
- Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship
