Gaizel Arguelles Adan

Gaizel is a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department. Her research examines the intersection of religious rituals, recurring flooding, and flood governance and infrastructure in Baao, Camarines Sur, through decolonial and feminist approaches. Before joining Purdue, her research focused on how Filipino single women and companion animals co-create multispecies homes that resist anthropocentric, patriarchal, colonial, and imperial logics of domination that simultaneously marginalize single women and animals. She values lived and embodied research. The inspiration for her scholarship on animals is her dog, Pancake.