External Research Associate
achacoso[at]hawaii.edu
Instructor
Women and Gender Studies, Vancouver Island University
Research Keywords:
Indigenous Studies; Filipinx Studies; Environmental Humanities; Indigenous and Transnational Feminisms
Research Region(s):
Philippines
Research Diaspora(s):
Filipino Diaspora
Dr. Katherine Achacoso (she/her/sija) is a queer daughter of the Filipinx diaspora, with ancestral ties to Surigao and Bohol. She was the recipient of the 2022–2024 Guarini Pre-to-Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian American Studies with a joint appointment in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Dartmouth College. In 2023, she completed her doctoral degree in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa where she had areas of specialization in Diaspora/Gender/Sexuality and Critical Indigenous Studies/Indigenous feminisms. She is currently working on her book manuscript on histories of North American extraction on her ancestral homelands in Surigao as well as co-editing a forthcoming special issue on Asian Settler Colonialism (Amerasia 2025). Katherine also has recent publications in ALON: the Journal for Filipinx American and Diaspora Studies, Hawai’i Review, Amerasia, the Teaching Oceania Series, and the University of Washington Press. She remains deeply committed to building community-engaged projects and pedagogy that works towards decolonization and trans-Indigenous solidarities in the Philippines and across Oceania.