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Pia ArboledaRecipient of the 2015 Regent's Medal for Excellence in Teaching, Pia Arboleda is Director of the Center for Philippine Studies and Coordinator of the Filipino and Philippine Literature Program at the University of Hawai''i at Manoa. She holds a Doctor of Arts degree in Language and Literature. She produces multi-media bilingual materials on folklore and indigenous culture; and is a Filipino <> English translator.
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Federico MagdalenaFederico Magdalena is the associate director for the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a faculty affiliate at the UH Manoa Asian Studies Program. His research specializations are on Mindanao, Islam, Philippine society and culture, and globalization of cultures.
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Nerissa S. BalceNerissa S. Balce is the author of the book, Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive (University of Michigan Press 2016 and Ateneo de Manila University Press 2017), winner of the 2018 Best Book award in Cultural Studies from the Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies. The book was also a finalist for the best book in the social sciences for the 2018 Philippine National Book Awards. She was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. She received a B.A. in Literature and an M.A. in Philippine Studies from De La Salle University, Manila. She worked as a journalist in Manila, writing articles on Philippine literature, politics, culture and the arts. She took doctoral studies at the University of California-Berkeley on a Fulbright scholarship, where she received a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies. Before joining SUNY Stony Brook’s Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, she received a postdoc at the University of Oregon’s Department of Ethnic Studies and taught at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst’s Comparative Literature Program. At Stony Brook, she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Asian American literature and popular culture. Her essays have appeared in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Social Text, Peace Review, Hitting Critical Mass and in anthologies such as "Positively No Filipinos Allowed": Building Communities and Discourse (Temple UP 2006) and Resource Guide to Asian American Literature (Modern Language Association 2001).
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Jody BlancoJohn D. (Jody) Blanco received his BA (with honors) from Arts and Ideas in the Residential College at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and his MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, California. His research interests concern the colonial roots of globalization between the 16th-19th centuries. The contexts that inspire this investigation range from the Spanish empire in the Americas and the Philippines, to the spread of Christianity in the modern period, to the philosophy of modernity and Eurocentrism, comparative forms of imperialism and anti-colonial struggles, and the legal, religious, and racial dilemmas and contradictions of post-colonial societies and states. Jody’s courses engage with these themes in and through the study of Philippine, Latin American, Caribbean, and US minority literatures and cultures (religious, political, and artistic). He is the author of Frontier Constitutions: Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth Century Philippines (UC Press 2009; UPhilippines Press 2010); and the translator of Julio Ramos’s Divergent Modernities in Latin America: Culture and Politics in the Nineteenth Century
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Josen Masangkay DiazJosen Masangkay Diaz is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego. Her work interrogates race, subjectivity, and modernity with a focus on Filipino and Filipino American history and culture. Her work is published in Kritika Kultura, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
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Vernadette GonzalezVernadette V. Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines. She is currently at work on two books: Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i, an edited collection place-based stories and art aimed at reframing encounters with Hawai‘i, and Empire’s Mistress, a tale of Isabel Rosario Cooper, vaudeville and film star and mistress to Douglas MacArthur.
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Theo GonzalvesTheodore S. Gonzalves is Curator of Asian Pacific American history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. He served as associate professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. At UMBC, Theo served as department chair. He has released four books: Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists (2007), The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino American Diaspora (2009), Carlos Villa and the Integrity of Spaces(2011), and Filipinos in Hawaiʻi (2011, with Roderick N. Labrador). Theo’s work has been generously supported as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar, a Moeson Fellow at the Library of Congress, and with a senior fellowship at the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. He is currently serving as the 21st President of the Association for Asian American Studies. Theo lives in Washington, D.C.
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Martin ManalansanMartin F. Manalansan IV is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006). He is editor/co-editor of four anthologies on Filipino studies, migration and gender studies, and food studies. He has also edited several journal special issues and published in journals such as GLQ, Antipode, Cultural Anthropology, positions: east asian cultural critique, and Radical History among others. Among his many awards are the Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association in 2003, the Excellence in Mentorship Award in 2013 from Association of Asian American Studies, the Richard Yarborough Mentoring Prize in 2016 from the American Studies Association and the Crompton-Noll Award for the best LGBTQ essay in 2016 from the Modern Language Association. His current book projects include the ethical and embodied dimensions of the lives and struggles of undocumented queer immigrants, Asian American immigrant culinary cultures, sensory, the affective dimensions of Filipino migrant labor, and Filipino return migration.
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Joyce MarianoL. Joyce Zapanta Mariano earned her PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of American Studies. She teaches Asian American Studies, Filipino American Studies, and core courses for her department. On campus, she is involved in organizing events on Asian American Studies and the politics of place with the Exploratory Committee on Asian American Studies at UH-Mānoa. Her book-in-progress Charity Begins at Home: Filipino American Diaspora and the Politics of Giving looks at diaspora formation through an interdisciplinary examination of Filipino Americans “giving back”—through philanthropy, humanitarian relief, social development, volunteerism, and organizing efforts—to the Philippines.
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Clemen MonteroClemen C. Montero is the Educational Specialist at the Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM). She teaches both the Ilokano and Filipino/Tagalog languages - Ilokano and Filipino Language and Literature Programs, UHM and Filipino Instructor with the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. She is also a Certified Berlitz Instructor, a method of teaching presented in a conversational style based on listening and speaking in the target language. It was introduced in 1878 and over time has become the standard for language learning.
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