Josen Masangkay Diaz writes and teaches about race, gender, colonialism, and authoritarianism. Her book, Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America (Duke University Press, 2023), analyzes the formation of Filipino American subjectivity through a study of U.S.-Philippine cold war politics. She is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz.