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Nicolo Ponnekanti (he/him)

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Nicolo Ponnekanti

Hospitality Staff

Povheng (Heng) Yam

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Povheng (Heng) Yam

ADPI+MENA Center Coordinator

Shaun Masuda (He/her)

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Shaun Masuda

Student Staff Lead

Senty Wu (she/her)

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Senty Wu

Social Media and Outreach Specialist

Rosalyn Luong

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Rosalyn Luong

Researcher and Data Analyst

Paul Michael Atienza

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Paul Michael Atienza

Faculty Fellow Advisor

Professor of Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies

    SPRING 2026
    CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
    CRGS 482: Internship
    CRGS 485: Professional Development
    ES 203: Asian American Images and Pop Cultures
    WS 350: Health and Body Politics

    FALL 2025
    CRGS 321: Trans* Lives & Theory
    CRGS 331: Radical Futures: Race, Environment, and Social Justice
    CRGS 482: Internship
    ES 302: Asian American Studies, Introduction

    SUMMER 2025
    ES 105: Introduction to Ethnic Studies

    SPRING 2025
    CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
    CRGS 482: Internship
    CRGS 485: Professional Development
    CRGS 491: Mentoring
    ES 108: Asian American Lives

    FALL 2024
    CRGS 108: Power/Privilege: Gender and Race, Sex, Class
    CRGS 331: Radical Futures: Race, Environment, and Social Justice
    CRGS 482: Internship

    SPRING 2023
    CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
    CRGS 482: Internship

    FALL 2023
    CRGS 480: Special Topics in CRGS - Intersectionality in STEM
    CRGS 482: Internship
    ES 302: Asian American Studies, Introduction

    SPRING 2023
    CRGS 430: Decolonizing Genders and Sexualities?
    CRGS 482: Internship

    FALL 2022
    ES 302: Asian American Studies, Introduction
    WS 106: Introduction to Women’s Studies
    WS 303: Anticolonial Women’s Movements

    2025 "Collaborative Organizing, Immersive Technology, and Campus Dialogue on Palestine: Bringing The Phoenix of Gaza XR Project to Cal Poly Humboldt," with Janet Winston, Tim Miller, and select members of the Campus & Community Dialogue on Race organizing committee. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, v. 47, p. 26-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55671/0160-4341.1265 

    2025 "Introduction to Place-Based Digital Inquiry," with Cinthya Ammerman Muñoz and Catey Hoehn. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, v. 47, p. 7-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55671/0160-4341.1261

    2024 "Feeling Failure: Appnography and Its Affective Ties to the Ethnographer’s Life“ Ethnoscripts 26 (1). https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/article/view/2328.

    2023 “Introduction: STS in the Philippines,” with Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez. Philippine Studies: Historical & Ethnographic Viewpoints, v. 71 no. 1, p. 1-16. https://dx.doi.org/10.13185/PS2023.71101

    2023 “‘I Look at How They Write Their Bio and I Judge From There’: Language and Class Among Middle-Class Queer Filipino Digital Socialities in Manila.” International Journal of Communication [S.l.], v. 17, p. 16, Mar. 2023. ISSN 1932-8036. Available at: <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19882/4123>.

    2023 “Sociotechnical Infrastructures: Tracing Gay Dating App Socialities in Manila,” In Beauty and Brutality: Manila and its Global Discontents. Martin F. Manalansan IV, Robert G. Diaz, and Rolando Tolentino, eds. Temple University Press.

    2021 “‘I think I’ll be more slutty:’ The Promise of Queer Filipinx/a/o/American Desire on Mobile Digital Apps in Los Angeles and Manila,” In Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America. Martin F. Manalansan IV, Kale Fajardo, and Alice Y. Hom, eds. Temple University Press.

    ***Finalist, 2022 Lambda Literary Awards, Best LGBTQ Anthology.

    2018 “Censoring the Sexual Self: Reflections from an Ethnographic Study of Gay Filipinos on Mobile Dating Apps in Manila.” The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 19, no. 3: 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2018.1454503.

    2014 “Internet.” In Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia, edited by Mary Yu Danico, vol. 9, 532-34. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.

    2014 Aloha Tolentino. "Artist Statement." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 35, no. 2: 28-29. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/30528

    Creative Scholarship
    2024 "Stop those Hail Marys for a Second and Listen," "Wag Ka Nang Malungkot," "So Many Families" In With Love: What We Wish We Knew About Being Queer and Filipino in AmericaDustin E. Domingo, Ed. Houston, TX: Kuwento Co. Pg 59, 78, and 94-95.

    Online Articles
    2022 “Game, boys! Pinoy Boys Love series imitates middle-class Manila COVID life and dreams of queer love through digital intimacies,” In Visualizing the Virus. Eds. Sria Chatterjee, Genie Yoo, and Valquirya Borba. July 28, https://visualizingthevirus.com/entry/game-boys/.

    2019 “Remaking Future Worlds: Possibilities from Cultures of Science and Technology,” In Illinois 150: The 21st Century Research University and the Public Good. Kevin Hamilton, ed. Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press. Sept. 30, 2019. https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/pressbooks/research150/chapter/re-maki.... The Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN).

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