ABOUT

Dr. Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo joins the university as an assistant professor of CHamoru studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Division of Humanities. She has taught various courses at UOG since 2010 and recently earned her doctorate in political science with a specialization in indigenous politics from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

CREDENTIALS

• Ph.D., Political Science - Indigenous Politics, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
• M.A., Pacific Island Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
• MAT, University of Guam
• B.A., English, Hawai'i Pacific University

PUBLICATIONS

Her poetry was published in 2019 in “Effigies III” (edited by Allison Hedge Coke, Brandy Nālani McDougall, and Craig Santos Perez), which featured chapbook-length poetry from four Indigenous poets from Oceania. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Indigenous education in Guåhan
• CHamoru culture and identity

ABOUT

Dr. Debra T. Cabrera most recently taught at St. John’s School in Upper Tumon, Guam while she served as adjunct faculty for sociology at the University of Guam. Prior to St. John’s School, Dr. Cabrera was a social science instructor then dean of Academic Programs and Services at the Northern Marianas College in the Northern Marina Islands. She has been active in local, regional, and national organizations, namely the Northern Mariana Islands Council for the Humanities, President Obama’s White House Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Humanities Guåhan, and the Scientific and Statistical Committee for the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. Her current research interests focus on neighborhood crime, juvenile delinquency in the Marianas, and environmental deviance. 

CREDENTIALS

• B.A., Sociology, Washington State University
• M.A., Sociology, Ohio University
• Ph.D., Sociology, University of Kentucky

CREDENTIALS

• A.S., Specialized Technology in Visual Communication, Art Institute of Pittsburgh
• BFA, University of Pennsylvania
• MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

CREDENTIALS

• B.M., Piano Performance, University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music
• M.M., Piano Performance, Rice University, Houston Texas
• M.M., Piano Pedagogy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• D.M.A., Piano Performance, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

ABOUT

Manuel Cruz has returned to his alma mater at the University of Guam as an instructor of communications and media within the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He has previously been a reporter for multiple news agencies in Guam and has experience as a policy analyst for the Guam Legislature. He holds a master’s in English and a bachelor’s in communication studies, both from the University of Guam. He recently submitted his doctoral thesis, “An(i)ti: An Examination of Settler Discourse and Politics in Guåhan,” in the communication studies program at Auckland University of Technology.

CREDENTIALS

• Ph.D. Candidate, Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
• M.A., English, University of Guam
• B.A., Communication Studies, University of Guam