Dr. Michael Sepidoza Campos 

Associate Professorial Lecturer

Educational Background

PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies: Postcolonial Theory, Queer Theory, and Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California

Master of Theological Studies,
Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

BA in Religious Studies,
University of San Diego, California

Michael Sepidoza Campos researches at the intersection of Filipino-American diaspora, postcolonial theory, queer theory, and critical pedagogy. Among his publications, Campos authored, “Weh, Talaga?! Camp, Queer Body, and the Posthuman” in Critical Research on Religion 12, no. 3 (2024); “A Theophilosophical Meditation: Queering Filipino Selfhood and Nationhood” in Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals, edited by Pui-lan Kwok (Baylor University Press, 2024); “Storying Selves Into God” in Siapakah Sesamaku? Pergumulan Teologi Denga Isu-Isu Keadilan Gender (Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Jakarta, 2019); and co-wrote “Centrality of Religiosity among Select LGBTQs in the Philippines” in Religions 12, no. 83 (2021) with Fides del Castillo, Clarence Darro del Castillo, and Gregory Ching. With Joseph N. Goh, Campos edited a special edition on “Genders, Sexualities, and Theopastoral Imaginations in Southeast Asia” in Critical Research on Religion 12, no. 3 (2024). He also co-edited Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) with Hugo Córdova Quero and Joseph N. Goh.

Research Interest

  • Filipino-American diaspora
  • Postcolonial theories
  • Queer theologies
  • Critical pedagogies

Selected Publications

  • Campos, M. S. (2024). Weh, Talaga?! Camp, Queer Body, and the Posthuman. Critical Research on Religion, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032241277497
  • Campos, M. S. (2024). A Theophilosophical Meditation: Queering Filipino Selfhood and Nationhood. In P. Kwok (Ed.), Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals (pp. 207–221). Baylor University Press.
  • Campos, M. S. (2019). Storying Selves Into God. In Siapakah Sesamaku? Pergumulan Teologi denga isu-isu keadilan gender (pp. 140–156). Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Jakarta.
  • Campos, M. S., del Castillo, F., del Castillo, C. D., & Ching, G. (2022). Emotions towards God of Selected LGBTQs in the Philippines and the Experience of Shame. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in Asia and the Pacific, 48.
  • Goh, J. N., & Campos, M. S. (2024). Introduction: Coming In and Finding Ground: Genders, Sexualities, and Theopastoral Imaginations in Southeast Asia. Critical Research on Religion, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032241277514
  • Quero, H. C., Goh, J. N., & Campos, M. S. (Eds.). (2014). Queering Migrations Towards, From, and Beyond Asia. Palgrave Macmillan.

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