Cynthia Marasigan

Office: LS G623
Phone: 777-2714
Email: cmarasig@binghamton.edu

Education

Ph.D., History, University of Michigan

Dissertation, “‘Between the Devil and the Deep Sea’: Ambivalence, Violence, and African American Soldiers in the Philippine-American War and Its Aftermath”

M.A., Historical Studies and Political Science, New School for Social Research
B.A., History, Binghamton University 

Areas of Study and Interest

U.S. Empire
Comparative colonialisms
Immigration and foreign policy
Comparative race relations
U.S. imperialism in the Pacific
Philippine and Filipino American history
War, citizenship, and African American history

Recent Courses

Asian American History
U.S.-Philippine Relations

Selected Awards/Fellowships

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Asian American Studies Program, 2010-2011
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2008-2009
• Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2007-2008
• George C. Marshall / Baruch Fellowship, 2007
• J. William Fulbright Grant, Philippines, 2005-2006
• Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, 2002-2003
• Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, Philippines, 2002
• Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2001-2007
• Anheuser Busch/ Frank Horton Fellowship, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, 2000-2001