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Jocyl  Sacramento, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

What makes me unique

Dr. Jocyl Sacramento (she/her/siya) is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal State East Bay. Dr. Sacramento specializes in Asian American Studies, Pinayism, critical pedagogies, comparative racialization, and K-12 Ethnic Studies. Her praxis-oriented work emerged out of her own participation in youth-led action research and her service with various youth programs and schools. Her current research presents an ethnographic portrait of high school Comparative Ethnic Studies in a California school district, which has received support from the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. Dr. Sacramento was recently awarded the 2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Education special interest group. She is also a former . You can find Dr. Sacramento’s published work in Amerasia Journal, The Urban Review, Equity & Excellence in Education, Peabody Journal of Education, and Rethinking Ethnic Studies. Dr. Sacramento received her BA in Ethnic Studies and Sociology from UC Riverside. She earned her M.A. in Asian American Studies from San Francisco State University, where she taught high school Filipinx American Studies with Pin@y Educational Partnerships. Dr. Sacramento completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Education from UC Berkeley.

  • B.A. Ethnic Studies and Sociology, UC RiversideM.A. Asian American Studies, San Francisco State UniversityM.A. Social and Cultural Studies in Education, UC BerkeleyPh.D. Education, UC Berkeley

  • Spring Semester 2026

    Course #SecCourse TitleDaysFromToLocationCampus
    ES 36402As Am & Pac Is CommARRWEB-ASYNCHOnline Campus
    ES 49002Independent StudyARRWEB-ASYNCHOnline Campus
    ES 36401As Am & Pac Is CommARRWEB-ASYNCHOnline Campus

  •  co-edited with Carlos Salomon, Jennifer Kim-Anh Tran, and Nicholas L. Baham, III. Routledge, 2026.

    , co-authored with J. Abigail Saavedra, Hyung Chol Yoo, Eleanor K. Seaton, and Masumi Iida, Review of Educational Research, (2025), doi: 10.3102/00346543251378465.

    Centering Pinxy Narratives: Kuwentos and Kuwentuhan in History Education, co-authored with Lauren Daus. In , ed. Maribel Santiago, and Tadashi Dozono. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2025: 119-133.

    co-authored with Danvy Le, AAPI Nexus, 21, no. 1 & 2 (2024): 23-48. 

    , with Edward R. Curammeng, Raymond San Diego, and Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Journal of Asian American Studies, 26, no. 2 (2023): 207-219. doi: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a901069.

    , co-authored with Edith Chen, Edward R. Curammeng, Matthew Laurel, Katie Yue-Sum Li, Mohit P. Mehta, Aileen Pagtakhan, and Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Journal of Asian American Studies, 26, no. 2 (2023): 277-283. doi: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a901075

    Pin[a/x]yism revisited: A pedagogical praxis toward collective liberation, co-authored with Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. In , ed. Amanda Solomon Amorao, DJ Kuttin Kandi, and Jen Soriano. San Diego, CA: Cognella, 2023: xlviii-lix.

    . In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (Volume 1), ed. Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, and E. J. R. David. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2022: 352-356.

    , co-authored with Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales and Jenelle Borja. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (Volume 2), ed. Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, and E. J. R. David. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2022: 767-771

    . In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies (Volume 2), ed. Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, and E. J. R. David. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd., 2022: 809-813

    ," co-authored with Cheryl Matias, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Korina Jocson, Tracy Lachia Buenavista, Arlene Sudaria Daus-Magbual, & Patricia Espiritu Halagao, Peabody Journal of Education, 97, no. 2 (2022): 179-198. doi: 10.1080/0161956X.2022.2055886.

    Decolonizing knowledge through high school Ethnic Studies, co-authored with Zeus Leonardo. In , ed. Adrienne D. Dixson, Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, Cecilia E. Suarez, William T. Trent, and James D. Anderson. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association. 2020: 149-171.

    , co-authored with Jason Magabo Perez, Leslie Quintanilla, Yumi Pak, Patrich Johnson, Lori Walkington, and Bao Lo. Ethnic Studies Review, 43, no. 3, (2022): 24-31. doi: 10.1525/esr.2020.43.3.24.

    . Equity & Excellence in Education, 52, no. 2-3) (2019): 167-184. doi:10.1080/10665684.2019.1647806 

    What is Ethnic Studies Pedagogy?, co-authored with Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Rita Kohli, Nick Henning, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, and Christine Sleeter. In , eds. R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, and Wayne Au. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools. 2019

    , co-authored with Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Rita Kohli, Nick Henning, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, and Christine Sleeter. The Urban Review, 47, no. 1, (2015):104-125. doi: 10.1007/s11256-014-0280-y.

    , co-authored with Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. Amerasia Journal, 35, no. 1, (2009):179-187. doi:10.17953/amer.35.1.98257024r4501756.

    HERstory: Pinay Pioneers, co-authored with Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Arlene Daus-Magbual, and Michelle Ferrer. In Pin@y Educational Partnerships: A Filipina/o American Studies Sourcebook, Volume I: Philippine and Filipina/o American History, ed. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. Santa Clara: Phoenix Publishing House International, 2007: 251–256.