Dr. JP Catungal is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. A critical geographer by training, his research examines community organizing and cultural production by LGBTQ, migrant and racialized communities as critiques and reworkings of educational, health and social service systems. He was co-editor of Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility (University of Toronto Press). He also serves as Editor of ACME International Journal of Critical Geographies and as Academic Co-Lead of the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement at the University of British Columbia.

Academic Appointments:
Assistant Professor (Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice), University of British Columbia: July 2018 - present
Academic Co-Lead (Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement), University of British Columbia: March 2022 - present
Interim Director (Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies), University of British Columbia: June 2021 - May 2022
Instructor I (aka Assistant Professor of Teaching), University of British Columbia: January 2016 - June 2018
Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia: January 2014 - December 2015

Education:
Ph.D. (Geography), University of Toronto, 2014
M.A. (Geography, University of Toronto, 2007
B.A. (Geography and Sociology), Simon Fraser University, 2006

Fellowships, Awards and Grants:
UBC Public Humanities Hub Faculty Fellowship, 2020-2021
J. Warren Nystrom Award, Association of American Geographers (April 2015): Awarded to the best paper presented at the AAG conference based on a dissertation (international competition)
Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence (June 2014): Awarded for achievement of highest academic standing in a graduate program at the university level

Select Publications:
Tungohan, E. and Catungal, JP. (2022). Virtual Qualitative Research Using Transnational Feminist Queer Methodology: The Challenges and Opportunities of Zoom-Based Research During Moments of Crisis. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21: 1-12. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/16094069221090062
Catungal, J.P. (2021). Disrupting normative choreographies: queer Asian Canadian interventions making a mess with/in a “Too Asian” university”. In Kale Fajardo, Alice Y. Hom, and Martin Manalansan (eds.), Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America, pp. 265-274.
DasGupta, D., Rosenberg, R., Catungal, J. P., & Gieseking, J. J. (2021) Pedagogies of Queer and Trans Repair: Letters from Queer Geographic Classrooms. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 20(5): 491-508.
Catungal, JP and Tungohan, E. Racial Narratives on Repeat: Reflections on Collaborative Research on Asian International Students in COVID Times. Canadian Literature, 245(2): 157-166.
Farrales, May, Dawn Hoogeveen, Vanessa Sloan Morgan and John Paul Catungal. Queering environmental regulation. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 4(2): 175-190.
Catungal, J. P., Klassen, B., Ablenas, R., Lambert, S., Chown, S., & Lachowsky, N. (2021). Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver. Urban Studies, 58(7), 1346-1363.
Catungal, J. P. (2021). Essential workers and the cultural politics of appreciation: sonic, visual and mediated geographies of public gratitude in the time of COVID-19. cultural geographies, 28(1): 403-408.
Catungal, J.P. (2020). Critic, advocate or enforcer: The multiple roles of academics in public policy”. In Sarah Hall and Ralitsa Hiteva (eds.), Engaging with policy, practice and publics: intersectionality and impact, pp. 135-154.
Catungal, J.P. (2018). “We had to take space, we had to create space”: Locating queer of colour politics in 1980s Toronto. In J. Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, S.M. Ware (with Rio Rodriguez) (eds.), Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto. University of Toronto Press.
Catungal, J.P. (2018). Towards queer(er) futures: Proliferating the ‘sexual’ in Filipinx-Canadian sexuality studies. In Diaz, R., Largo, M. and Pino, P. (eds.), Diasporic intimacies: Queer Filipinos/as and Canadian imaginaries. Northwestern University Press.
Roberts, D. and Catungal, J.P. (2018). Neoliberalizing social justice in infrastructure revitalization planning: Analyzing Toronto’s More Moss Park project in its early stages. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 108(2): 454-263. Special issue on “Social justice and the city”.
Kojima, D., Catungal, J.P. and Diaz, R. (2017). Introduction: Feeling queer, feeling Asian, feeling Canadian. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 38: 69-80.
Coloma, R., McElhinny, B., Tungohan, E., Catungal, J.P., and Davidson, L. (eds.). (2012). Filipinos in Canada: disturbing invisibility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Select Invited Presentations:
2022. Panelist: Celebrating a Legacy of Greatness: Asian Representation in Media (Asian Heritage Month event). Women and Gender Equality Canada. June 6.
2021. Racial narratives on repeat: historicizing Asian international students' experiences during COVID. Invited presentation for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. July 7.
2021. (with Christine Kim). Rethinking Asian racialization in pandemic times. Invited joint presentation for Langara College, May 26.
2019. “Regulating intimacy in Pacific Canada: an intersectional analysis”. Keynote presentation. Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German Speaking Countries, Grainau, Germany. February 14-17.
2019. “Ate / kuya : Kinship as ethno-specificity in Filipino educational organizing in Vancouver Canada”. Invited colloquium presentation. Philippines Studies Series Berlin. Institute for Asian and African Studies. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. February 11.
2018. 'For us, by us': ethno-specificity, community organizing and queer of colour geographies. Department of Geography, Rutgers University. January 25.
2017. Troubling normalcy: racialized masculinities from a queer of colour perspective. In Power, Race and Privilege Symposium, Quest University, Squamish, BC.
2017. (With Maureen Mendoza and the Kababayan Academic Mentorship Program). “Mentorship as Political Practice: Filipinx-Canadians Organizing against Educational Abandonment in Vancouver, BC”. Transnational Filipinx Studies workshop. York University. November 14.
2015. "For us, by us" as queer-of-colour geography: performing ethno-specificity in sexual health organizing and social service provision. Departments of Geography and Women and Gender Studies, Dartmouth College. January 19.