Kathleen "Kat" Cruz Gutierrez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on modern Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the history of science and the environment. She completed her Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation on the international consolidation of botany in the Philippines was shortlisted for Best Dissertation in the Humanities by the International Convention of Asia Scholars in 2021. With Paul Michael Atienza, she is guest co-editing a special issue on STS for Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. Presently, Dr. Gutierrez is in residence at the Humanities Institute of the New York Botanical Garden completing her first book manuscript.

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