Cynthia Marasigan is a historian whose research and teaching interests include United States history from the mid-19th century to the present, with particular engagement in U.S. Empire studies, comparative and relational studies of race, U.S.-Philippine and Filipino American history, and Afro-Asian histories. 

Her current book manuscript, Empire’s Color Lines: How African American Soldiers and Filipino Revolutionaries Transformed Amigo Warfare (forthcoming, Duke University Press), explores intersections of U.S. imperialism, Jim Crow, and colonial resistance by analyzing a range of interactions between Black soldiers and Filipinos during the Philippine-American War and its aftermath.