About

Dada Docot is an assistant professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. Her current book project titled “Ambient Violence” is based on her ethnographic fieldwork in her hometown in Bicol, Southern Luzon Island, Philippines. She is a visual anthropologist and artist whose works center on Filipino overseas migration. Dada has shown her film projects in both academic and art environments including the Society of Visual Anthropology’s Film Festival, the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila, the CaixaForum in Barcelona, The Red House Center for Culture and Debate in Sofia, Bulgaria, among others. At the University of British Columbia where she completed her PhD in Anthropology, she held the Vanier Awards, one of Canada’s most prestigious research grants. In Vancouver, she co-founded the UBC Philippine Studies Series, a student-led community-oriented initiative in Canada. In was a research fellow at the University of Tokyo (2021-2023) and Global Perspectives on Society Teaching Fellow at New York University Shanghai (2017-2019). In 2014, she was a visiting scholar at Oxford University’s Center for Migration, Policy, and Society. Dada obtained her MA at the University of Tokyo and BA at the University of the Philippines. Her works have appeared in top journals including Current Anthropology and American Anthropologist, etc. She is co-editor Plural Entanglements: Philippine Studies (2023).