Joshua is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies whose research interests are in Asian and Asian American studies, Disability Studies, History of Medicine, and Filipino American and Philippine studies. He is a recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship and was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and California State University Sally Casanova Scholar. His dissertation, “State of Insanity: Medicalizing Madness and the Imperial Subject in the Philippines, 1898-1965,” research traces how the interplay between colonial bureaucrats, Philippine medical scientists, mental illness patients, religious institutions, and nationalist movements interdependently shaped knowledge and cultural perceptions of mental illness in the archipelago during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He previously chaired the Filipino & Philippine Studies Working Group at the Center for Southeast Asia Studies/Townsend Center for the Humanities. He currently serves on the Philippine Studies Group Advisory Board in the Association for Asian Studies.
Asian American History, Colonialism, History of Medicine, Humanitarianism, Migration, Philippine and Filipino American Studies
