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Jocyl Sacramento, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Department of Ethnic Studies

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 Sally Casanova Scholar. 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.

Ph.D., Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender in Education, UC BerkeleyM.A., Social and Cultural Studies in Education, UC BerkeleyM.A., Asian American Studies, San Francisco State UniversityB.A., Ethnic Studies and Sociology, UC Riverside

Spring Semester 2026

Course #	Sec	Course Title	Days	Location	Campus
ES 364	02	As Am & Pac Is Comm	ARR	WEB-ASYNCH	Online Campus
ES 490	02	Independent Study	ARR	WEB-ASYNCH	Online Campus
ES 364	01	As Am & Pac Is Comm	ARR	WEB-ASYNCH	Online Campus

Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Love, Knowledge, and Revolution, co-edited with Carlos Salomon, Jennifer Kim-Anh Tran, and Nicholas L. Baham, III. Routledge, 2026.

Ethnic Studies Courses as a Developmental Context: A Systematic Review of Asian American Students' Development Experiences, 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 Shifting the Lens in History Education: Centering Racial and Ethnic Knowledge in the Classroom, ed. Maribel Santiago, and Tadashi Dozono. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2025: 119-133.

Asian American Studies Across the Disciplines: Ethnic Studies-Political Science-Liberal Studies Partnerships in the Time of AB 1460, co-authored with Danvy Le, AAPI Nexus, 21, no. 1 & 2 (2024): 23-48.

Toward a Radical Asian American Studies Pedagogy, 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.

K-12 Asian American Studies as Praxis, 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 Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and Practice, ed. Amanda Solomon Amorao, DJ Kuttin Kandi, and Jen Soriano. San Diego, CA: Cognella, 2023: xlviii-lix.

Filipina American Women. 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.

Pinayism, 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

Regional Trends. 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

Raising Love in a Time of Lovelessness: Kuwentos of Pinayist Motherscholars Resisting COVID-19's Anti-Asian Racism," co-authored with Cheryl Matias, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, Korina Jocson, Tracy Lachica 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 Condition or Process?: Researching Race in Education, 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.

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

Critical Collective Consciousness: Ethnic Studies Teachers and Professional Development. 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 Rethinking Ethnic Studies, eds. R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, and Wayne Au. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools. 2019

Toward an Ethnic Studies Pedagogy: Implications for K-12 Schools from the Research, 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.

Practicing Pinayist Pedagogy, 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.

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