Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on the Philippines and modern Southeast Asia. She obtained a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Science and Technology Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing and research have contributed to the history of modern Philippine botany, scholarship on Itneg textile production, Philippine STS, and the environmental humanities of the Asian–Pacific region.