newsletter: july 2024
meet guest editor Mookie Manalili!
hi, it’s minjae!
happy july 🌴☀️😎 we’re excited to announce that the marginalia science x boston college symposium is returning this fall! early career researchers from our community will be invited to share their research with a wide audience, and awarded an honorarium. be on the lookout for further details and application information in the coming weeks!
i’m delighted to introduce this month’s guest editor, Mookie Manalili!
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about me
What’s good fam? I’m Michael (Mookie) Cruz Manalili. I was born in the Philippines, yet grew up mostly around Los Angeles. I moved around a lot growing up and learned about our contexts from many friend-villages (i.e. California, New Mexico, Texas, Indiana, Massachusetts, etc). For now, I do call Boston home. Tough to go Lakers => Celtics…
Professionally, I’m a researcher, professor, therapist - interested in suffering, embodiment, meaning, narratives, trauma, memory, ethics. I get the honor to work with colleagues and friends in the Morality Lab (with Dr. Liane Young) and Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics (with Dean David Goodman). Additionally, I teach graduate clinical courses (i.e. narrative therapy, adult psychological trauma) and undergrad psychology courses (i.e. intro to psychopathology) at Boston College. Also, I’m a psychotherapist in a private group practice, which blends narrative therapy, psychoanalysis, mindfulness, psychoeducation, and cultural wisdoms.
Academically, I’m a life-long-learner and a bit of a nerd. I hold degrees in civil engineering (B.S.E.), theological pedagogy (M.A.), theological studies (M.T.S.), and clinical social work (M.S.W.). Soon, I'll be starting an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Boston University! It’ll be through the School of Theology, and specialized as “Pastoral Theology and Psychology”. I’m honored to work with my primary advisor in Dr. Steve Sandage, and to be formed where the ethos of 'personalism' shaped Thurman, MLK Jr., and many others.
My main project will be on 'passiology' - the study of lived experiences and narratives of suffering, healing, and flourishing. I hope to bring the full weight of practical theology, social psychology, trauma neuroscience, psychological humanities, philosophical psychotherapy, cultural wisdom, and other traditions to speak into our shared mystery - in order to better accompany our suffering siblings in our society.
Personally, I enjoy a packed schedule of deep introversion and/or energetic extraversion. Whether it's reading fiction, yoga movements, crunching research - or boxing gyms, bachata dancing, pickup-basketball - I enjoy embodied silences and/or moving with folks. I’ll be unplugging in August to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain. I hope to retire one-day and have a tea-shop/albergue on the trail where folks can stop by (to really channel that Uncle Iroh vibe). If y’all stop by Boston sometime - please do hit me up (manalili@bc.edu)! Happy to break bread, share stories, and/or sip tea :)
📺 watching 👀
Not too much of a watcher… making my way through The Bear (S.1 & S.2) - incredible artistic shots/zoom/blur, psychological experiences, and character un/developments. Also, rewatching Avatar the Last Airbender with my housemates - noticing how incredibly complex the lessons, social critiques, and story-arcs are - esp for a kiddo show!
📚 reading 🤓
For fiction, I just finished Babel (by R.F. Kuang) - incredible book on word-magic, academy, colonialism, heartbreak. Also, a student gave me Mort (by Terry Pratchett) - a whimsically light-hearted yet deep book about death, fate/time, coming of age. For nonfictions, I’ve been listening/reading MLK Jr.’s speeches to get ready for the BU studies.
👂 listening 🎧
We keeping it eclectic this summer with some Spotify radio shuffles!
Not like us (Kendrick Lamar)- Compton-raised, Pulitzer-winner, diss par excellence
Too sweet (Hozier) - lovely melody + also black-coffee and whiskey-neat kinda guy
It’s plenty (Burna Boy) - getting into afrobeats/kizomba dance + great lyrics
Clavaito (Chanel) - fave bachata song to-dance-to for syncopation
Myself (Bazzi) - summer camino vibes kinda music forsure :)
💻 some papers i’m (trying!) to read this month👇
Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: a scoping review of research
Elise JY Choe, Stephen Waldron, Choi Hee an, Steven J Sandage | The Journal of Positive Psychology (2024)The journey of healing: Using narrative therapy and map-making to respond to child abuse in South Africa
Ncazelo Ncube | International Journal of Narrative Therapy & Community Work (2010)Caring for present and future generations alike: Longtermism and moral regard across temporal and social distance
Stylianos Syropoulos, Kyle Fiore Law, Liane Young | Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2024)
THIS MONTH’S ROUND-UP 🤩
💎 awesome work by marginalia and affiliated scientists 💎
Conducting developmental research online vs. in-person: A meta-analysis
Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce, Anjie Cao, Michael C. Frank | Open Mind (2024)Measuring emotion dysregulation in daily life: an experience sampling study
Nicole H. Weiss, Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon, Leslie A. Brick, Silvi C. Goldstein, Melissa R. Schick, Holly Laws, Reina Kiefer, Ateka A. Contractor & Tami P. Sullivan | Anxiety, Stress, & Coping (2024)
👓 OTHER THINGS THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU 🚀
Psychology & the Other 2025 (Boston College): call for proposals coming soon
Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics: presentation and publication opportunities
🌱 JOB-MARKET RESOURCES 🌱
Michigan State University: The Department of Psychology at Michigan State University is seeking to hire a tenure track assistant professor with expertise in intergroup relations, broadly defined. Specific topics could include, but are not limited to, conflict and reconciliation, prejudice, stereotyping, stigma, social identities, collective action, and social inequalities.
Stony Brook University College of Business: Assistant Professor of Marketing
Carnegie Mellon University: Tenure Track Position in Complex Social Dynamics, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Boston College School of Social Work: part-time faculty positions in Clinical and/or Macro social work practice
Washington University in St. Louis: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Marketing
UCLA Anderson School of Management: Research Assistant for Drs. Heather Maiirhe Caruso, Eugene Caruso, and Hanne Collins
and, of course, feel free to email us with questions, ideas, etc to add to this list!
in support & science,
📚 MARGINALIA SCIENCE 📚
eliana hadjiandreou
ivy gilbert
jordan wylie
minjae kim