Josen Diaz

Josen Masangkay Diaz is an assistant professor of ethnic studies and affiliated with the Program in Women and Gender Studies at the University of San Diego. Her book, Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America (forthcoming from Duke University Press) traces the collaborations between US liberalism and Philippine authoritarianism during the Cold War period to illuminate the ways that colonial discourses of self-determination set the discursive boundaries of Filipinx subjectivity. Her work appears in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Signs, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and Kritika Kultura.