JocylSacramento, Ph.D. Faculty Profile

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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 ÍÑ¿ã°É 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.

  • 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

  • Fall Semester 2026

    Course #SecCourse TitleDaysFromToLocationCampus
    ES 10004Intro to Social JusticeARRWEB-ASYNCHOnline Campus
    ES 36001Asian Am Intimacies & FamiliesARRWEB-ASYNCHOnline Campus
    ES 36002Asian Am Intimacies & FamiliesARRWEB-ASYNCHOnline Campus
    ES 36601PinayismARRWEB-ASYNCHOnline Campus

  • Books

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

    Journal Articles

    Ethnic Studies Education as a Site for Sociopolitical Development: Examining Profiles of Asian Americans' Critical Consciousness Over Time, co-authored with J. Abigail Saavedra, Hyung Chol Yoo, Jocyl Sacramento, Eleanor K. Seaton, and Justin Jager. Journal of Educational Psychology, (2026), doi: 10.1037/edu0001027/

    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.

    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

    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.

    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 

    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.

    Book Chapters

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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

    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.

    Encyclopedia Entries

    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