Research
Care,health, well-being, and quality of life constitute key foci of nursing scholarship. I advance this knowledge using interdisciplinary methods to reveal the messy care politics enmeshed into the lives of subaltern nurses, who have traversed between bedside and the global healthcare arena for over a century. My current research explores the transnational history and identities of Filipino nurses through the analytics of race, gender, and (dis)ability.
American Studies
History x Nursing
Digital Humanities
• H-31 Predoctoral Grant. (2023). American Association for the History of Nursing.
• Philippines Open Study/Research Award. (2022) US Fulbright Student Program.
• Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship. (2022). University of Virginia. [Declined Offer]
• Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Summer Research Grant. (2022). University of Virginia.
• Dissertation Workshop Fellow. (2022). Association of Asian Studies — Social Science Research Council.
• Rodriguez Nursing Student Research & Leadership Fund. (2022). University of Virginia School of Nursing.
• Graduate Global Research Grant. (2021). University of Virginia Center for Global Innovation & Inquiry.
• Alice Fisher Society Fellowship. (2020). University of Pennsylvania Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.
• Open Grant Program. (2018). Virginia Humanities.
• Rodriguez Nursing Student Research & Leadership Fund. (2018). University of Virginia School of Nursing.
• Rodriguez Nursing Student Research & Leadership Fund. (2017). University of Virginia School of Nursing.
• Nursing Scholarship Award. (2022). Philippine Nurses Association of America Foundation.
• Graduate Scholarship Award. (2022). Philippine Nurses Association of America.
• M. Louise Fitzpatrick Scholarship. (2022). Nurses Educational Funds.
• Graduate Merit Award. (2021). University of Virginia School of Nursing.
• 1st Place Graduate Division Photovoice Contest. (2020). Canadian Association for the History of Nursing.
• Student Scholar Award. (2019). American Association for the History of Nursing.
• Nursing Student Scholarship. (2019). Philippine Nurses Association of Virginia.
• Graduate Nurse Scholarship Runner-up Prize. (2018). F.A. Davis.
• Nancy Ballard Scholarship Award. (2018). Sigma Theta Tau International Beta Kappa Chapter.
• Research Dissemination Award. (2018). Sigma Theta Tau International Beta Kappa Chapter.
• Conway Community Scholarship. (2016). University of Virginia School of Nursing.
• “Reckoning with Historical Harms to Transform Nursing at the University of Virginia.” History Matters Symposium. Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Richmond, VA. November 4, 2023.
• “Race Relations at Academic Health Centers: Historical Scholarship to Enrich Teaching and Community Engagement.” American Association for the History of Medicine. Saratoga Springs, NY. April 21 – 24, 2022.
• “Filipino Nurses at the Postcolonial Prelude, 1911 – 1946: Mobilities of Gender and Race to and from Seattle.” Asian Centennial Bahn Mi Speaker Series. The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA. April 16, 2021.
• “Filipino Nurses at the Postcolonial Prelude, 1911 – 1946: A History of Race, Gender, and Sexuality.” History Forum at the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry History. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
• “White as Necessary Across the Greater US: Transregional Migrations of Filipina/o Nurses to Seattle, 1920 – 1940.” New Perspectives on Nursing History: Women & Care in East Asia Conference. Duke University, Durham, NC. February 14 – 15, 2020.
• “American Dreaming: The History of Filipino Nurses in Seattle, 1900 – 1950.” American Association for the History of Nursing Conference. Dallas, TX. September 19 – 21, 2019.
• “Nursing Across Borders: The History of Filipino Nurses in Virginia, 1960 – 1980.” Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science & Agnes Dillon Randolph International Nursing History Joint Conference. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. March 14 – 16, 2019.
• “Implementing a Leadership Course in Nursing and Healthcare History into CNL Curricula.” American Association of Colleges of Nursing Clinical Nurse Leader Summit, Tampa, FL. February 19 – 21,
“A Culture to Care: The History of Filipino Nurses in Hampton Roads, 1947 – 1992.” Southern Association for the History of Science and Medicine. Augusta University, Augusta, GA. February 15 – 17, 2018.
• “Care Beyond National and Color lines: Filipino Nurses in Virginia Across the 20Century.
• “Nursing Our Identities: Self-Compassion and Intersectionality.” In Self-care for New and Student Nurses, edited by Dorrie K. Fontaine, Timothy Cunningham, and Natalie B. May, 154-171. Indianapolis: Sigma Theta Tau International, 2021.
• Capucao, Reynaldo. “Beyond Western Expectations: Filipina Nurse Leaders Anastacia Giron-Tupas and Julita Villaruel Sotejo.” Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 25, no. 2.7 (May 31, 2020).
• Capucao, Reynaldo. “For the Love of Family: The Filipina/o Nurse Diaspora.” Routed: Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine, no. 8 (February 14, 2020), https://www.routedmagazine.com/filipino-nurse-diaspora
• Capucao, Reynaldo. “Filipino Nurses and the United States at Hampton Roads, Virginia: The Importance of Place.” Nursing History Review 28, no. 1 (2019): 158-169.
Coverage
- National Geographic. (2021). America's Filipino nurses remain resilient pillars at home and abroad despite pandemic.
- Bloomberg Quicktake: Now. (2020). Coronavirus: Why deaths are so high among Filipino nurses in the U.S.
- Newsy. (2020). Filipinos are 4% of U.S. nurses, but account for 31.5% of COVID-19 deaths among nurses.
- CBS This Morning. (2020). Asian Americans report increased discrimination, even as some work on the frontlines of the pandemic.
- Aljazeera. (2020). Filipino nurses: New York's frontliners.
- Vox. (2020). Why the US has so many Filipino nurses.