> PhD Geography (2013) Texas A&M University
> MSc Geography (2008) University of the Philippines Diliman
> BSc Geography (2003) University of the Philippines Diliman

> Political ecology
> Urban political ecology
> Urban studies
> Urban geography
> Agrarian studies
> Resource geographies
> Environmental geography
> Political geography

> Geog 104 (Development of Geographic Thought)
> Geog 105 (Economic Geography)
> Geog 204 (Geographic Thought)
> Geog 301 (Environmental Geography)
> Geog 321 (Urban Systems)

> 2024. Harry J. Benda Prize awarded by the Association for Asian Studies.
> 2023. Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography 2022 awarded by the American Association of Geographers.
> 2021. Urban Studies Foundation Seminar Series Award
> 2019. Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowship
> 2018. Virginia A. Miralao Excellence in Research Award, Philippine Social Science Council.
> 2015. Geoforum Best Student Paper Prize 2014

> Principal Investigator, “Climate action and participatory experiments (CAPE) for urban resilience in the Philippines and Vietnam,” Jul 2025-Oct 2026, funded by the CLARE-ASEAN.
> Partner Investigator, “Authoritarian populism and livelihood change in the Philippines,” Jan 2022-Dec 2024, funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant.
> Co-Coordinator, “Growing resilience with urban agriculture for resilient cities (GReenSCape)” Jun 2024-Jun 2026, funded by the Austrian Cooperation Development Research.
> Co-Investigator, “High density urbanisms: In place and on the move, Dec 2022-Jun 2023, funded by the European Research Council.
> Project Leader, “Philippine Disaster Information System (Phil-DIS),” Oct 2019-Mar 2021, funded by the University of the Philippines – Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs ECWRG.
> Project Leader, “Political ecologies of interstitial food production spaces in Metro Manila,” Aug 2016-Jul 2019, funded by the University of the Philippines – Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Development.
> Co-Researcher, “Adapting to climate change in coastal livelihoods in Ghana, Tanzania, Thailand and the Philippines,” 2017-2018, funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
> Project Leader, “Toward Philippine green cities: Assessing land use, community practices and policies on urban sustainability,” Apr 2015-Apr 2016, funded by the University of the Philippines – Center for Integrative and Development Studies.

BOOKS

> Saguin, K. K. (2022). Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila’s Resource Frontier. Oakland: University of California Press.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

> McFarlane, C., Saguin, K. K., & Cunanan, K. (2025). Density textures: the crowd, everyday life, and urban poverty in Manila. Urban Geography. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2024.2401715
> Saguin, K. K. (2024). Political geography, political ecology, and approaches to the politics of urban environments. In Menga, F., Nagel, C., Grove, K. & K. Peters (Eds.). Political Geography in Practice: Theories, Approaches, Methodologies (pp. 121-124). Palgrave MacMillan.
> Saguin, K. K. (2024). Urban gardens on the edge of city-making in Metro Manila. The Geographical Journal, 190(1), e12459.
> Akoth. S. O., Anwar, N., Bathla, N., Cavalcanti, M., El-Husseiny, M., Güney, K. M., Irawaty, D. T., Kaker, S. A., Kihato, C. W., Lawanson, T., Saguin, K. K. & Simone, A. (2024). The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions. The Geographical Journal, 190(1), e12577.
> Theriault, N. & Saguin, K. K. (2023). “Panoptic na pag-unlad”? On the perils and potentials of “smart” urbanism in Manila. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 71(1), 135-156.
> Saguin, K. K., & Cagampan, M. A. (2023). Urban farming and land use governance in Metro Manila. In T. E. Tadem & M. E. Atienza (Eds.), A Better Metro Manila? Towards Responsible Local Governance, Decentralization, and Equitable Development in the Philippines: Policy Research for Metro Manila (pp. 407-442). Palgrave MacMillan.
> Andriesse, E., Saguin, K., Ablo, A. D., Kittitonkool, J., Kongkaew, C., Mang’ena, J., Onyango, P., Owusu, V. & Yang, J. (2022). Aligning bottom-up initiatives and top-down policies? A comparative analysis of overfishing and coastal governance in Ghana, Tanzania, the Philippines, and Thailand. Journal of Rural Studies, 92, 404-414.
> Saguin, K. K. (2022). Urban populist ecologies and Duterte’s politics of discipline in Manila’s Dolomite Beach. Political Geography, 95, 102553.
> Saguin, K. K., & Alvarez, M. K. (2022). ‘Danger zones’, ’death zones’ and paradoxes of infrastructural space-making in Manila. Journal of Urban Technology, 29(1), 145-152.
> Saguin, K. K., Lopez, Y., Cadag, J. R., de Guzman, M., & Garcia, E. (2022). Geography’s trajectories in Philippine higher education. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 47, 23-27.
> Andriesse, E., & Saguin, K. (2022). Spatial inequality and development. In K. Sims et al. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Global Development (pp. 351-361). London: Routledge. Andriesse, E., Kittitornkool, J., Saguin, K., & Kongkaew, C. (2021). Can fishing communities escape marginalisation? Comparing overfishing, environmental pressures and adaptation in Thailand and the Philippines. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 62(1), 72-85.
> Saguin, K. (2020). Cultivating beneficiary citizenship in urban community gardens in Metro Manila. Urban Studies, 57(16), 3315-3330.
> Saguin, K. (2019). ‘Return the lake to the people’: Populist political rhetoric and the fate of a resource frontier in the Philippines. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(2), 434-442.
> Saguin, K. (2018). Mapping access to urban value chains of aquaculture. Aquaculture, 493, 424-435.
> Saguin, K. (2018). Political ecologies of urbanizing natures in Southeast Asia. In R. Padawangi (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia (pp. 355-365). London: Routledge.
> Ortega, A. A. C., Martinez, M. S. M., Dayrit, C., and Saguin, K. K. C. (2018). Counter-mapping for resistance and solidarity in the Philippines: Between art, pedagogy and community. In Kollektiv Orangotango+ (Eds.), This is Not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter Cartographies (pp. 144-151). Verlag Bielefeld.
> Saguin, K. (2017). Producing an urban hazardscape beyond the city. Environment and Planning A, 49(9), 1968-1985.
> Saguin, K. K., Chanco, C. J., Tan, A. I., & Ortega, A. A. (2017). Reclaiming social equity in land use planning for sustainable cities. Public Policy Journal, 18, 99-126.
> Saguin, K. (2016). Blue revolution in a commodity frontier: Ecologies of aquaculture and agrarian change in Laguna Lake, Philippines. Journal of Agrarian Change, 15(4), 571-593.
> Saguin, K. K. (2016). States of hazard: Aquaculture and narratives of typhoons and floods in Laguna de Bay. Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 64(3-4), 527-554.
> Saguin, K. (2014). Biographies of fish for the city: Urban metabolism of Laguna Lake aquaculture. Geoforum, 54, 28-38.