Fil-Am professor gets $60K Nat’l Endowment for Humanities grant

Sarita Echavez See, professor of media and cultural studies. UCR

A Filipina American a professor at University of California Riverside faculty will receive a sought-after grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Sarita Echavez See, professor of media and cultural studies, received an award of $60,000 for her project titled “Make Do: Filipino American Visual Culture and the Everyday Arts of Survival.”

The NEH gave $24.7 million in grants for humanities projects across the country. It is an independent federal agency and one of the largest funders of humanities programs in the United States.

Echavez See is professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside. Her research and teaching interests range across the interdisciplines of empire and postcolonial studies, critical race studies, theories of gender and sexuality, narrative and minoritized art, media and performance.

She is the author of the monographs The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) and The Filipino Primitive: Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum (New York University Press, 2017; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2018). She co-edited the anthology Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader (Duke University Press, 2016).