About

Dada Docot is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, where she is also affiliated with the Cornerstone program, Asian American Studies, SIS, Asian Studies, and SLC. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia in 2018 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo from 2022 to 2024, and at New York University Shanghai from 2017 to 2019. Her academic background includes an MA in Human Security Studies from the University of Tokyo and a BA in Journalism from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She joined Purdue University in Fall 2019. Dada Docot's specialization encompasses the anthropology of the hometown, migration and diaspora, visual anthropology, multiple colonialism, postcolonialism, and decolonization, public anthropology, Philippine studies, and Southeast Asia. Her work centers on the hometown and diaspora, with her current book project providing an ethnographic account of everyday life in her hometown, known as the 'Town of Dollars,' located in Southeast Luzon, Philippines, which has been radically transformed by overseas mobilities. She is committed to expanding conversations on the postcolonial condition, addressing issues of multiple histories of colonization, enduring precarity, and growing global inequality. As a visual anthropologist, her works have been showcased in various academic and art environments, including the Society of Visual Anthropology's Film Festival, the UBC Museum of Anthropology, the Cultural Center of the Philippines, CaixaForum in Barcelona, and The Red House Center for Culture and Debate in Bulgaria. Her research and community work have received support from organizations such as the UBC Liu Institute of Global Issues, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-Canada, and the Ministry of Education-Japan.

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