Kathleen Gutierrez
Sarah Goolishian
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session II
Kathleen Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast), Science & Justice Research Center of UC Santa Cruz.
Her research interests are centered broadly on the politics of plant life and floral world-making in modern histories of the Philippines and Southeast Asia. She is currently developing a book manuscript, Sovereign Vernaculars in the Philippines at the Dawn of New Imperial Botany, that expands the "vernacular" in the history of colonial botany and examines ongoing epistemological tensions during the science's internationalist acceleration.