Gaizel Arguelles Adan
- Graduate Student // Anthropology
- Ph.D. Candidate // Anthropology
- Teaching Assistant // Anthropology
Research Focus
anthropology of religion, ritual, decoloniality, postcolonial communities, postcolonial feminism, woman-animal companionship
Office and Contact
Email: gadan@purdue.edu
Gaizel is a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department. Before joining Purdue, her research focused on how Filipino single women and companion animals co-create multispecies homes of ministry that resist anthropocentric, patriarchal, colonial, and imperial logics of domination that simultaneously marginalize single women and animals.
Her other research projects centered on ritual and AI, interreligious spatial relations, transfeminine youth, and women with disabilities and reproductive rights.
She received a Doctor of Ministry from Catholic Theological Union-Chicago, a Master of Arts in Women and Development from the University of the Philippines Diliman, a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the Ateneo de Manila University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Education from Saint Paul University Quezon City.
She values lived and embodied types of research. The inspiration for her scholarship on animals is her dog, Pancake.