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Background: I got my B.A. in English from the University of the Philippines and my M.A. in political science from University of Hawaii as an East-West Center grantee. I also took graduate courses on modernization and behavioral science at the University of Michigan. Then I attended Cornell University as a Ford Foundation Fellow where I got my Ph.D.in comparative politics and Southeast Asian studies. I joined the UHM faculty in 1975 with a split appointment between Political Science and Asian Studies.
In l986, I was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and lectured in four universities in Indonesia.The following year I was visiting professor at the University of the Philippines, and in 1989, I was visiting scholar at the Department of Economics, Kansai University, in Osaka, Japan. From 1989 to 1991 I served as Vice President for Public Affairs of the University of the Philippines and taught in the Department of Political Science and the College of Public Administration. In 1997-98, I was a visiting professor in the Institute for the Study of Cultures and Languages of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. During that period I lectured at Sophia University in Tokyo and at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies in Kyoto.
I currently serve as Director of the Center
for Philippine Studies, one of the area centers at the School
of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies.
Research Interests: My research interests have focused
on contemporary Philippine politics with particular reference to presidential
leadership, U.S.-Philippine relations, development and local autonomy,
women and cultural minorities, and the politics of corruption during the
Marcos dictatorship. I am currently engaged in an interdisciplinary research
project to understand the roots of the Mindanao crisis and the various
political forces involved in the continuing conflict. My other major
research interests are the continuing search for the Marcos "hidden
wealth," human rights issues, the development of the Philippine middle
class, and Filipino issues in America.
Selected publications
In Progress: Mindanao: Understanding Its Troubled History (Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila Press, 2003 {expected})
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"Politics of Ethnicity Among Ilokanos in Hawaii," in Charles Macdonald and Guillermo Pesigan, eds., Old Ties and New Solidarities (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000)
"Woman to Woman: From a Distance," in Jonathan Chua, ed., Feasts and
Feats (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University: Office of Research and
Publications 2000).
The Politics of Plunder: The Philippines Under Marcos, 2nd ed. (University of the Philippines: National College of Public Administration, 1999).
"The Transnational Dynamics of the Marcos Plunder," Journal of Asian and African Studies ( Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1998).
"Filipino Elections and 'Illiberal' Democracy," Public Policy, II, 3 (July- Sept. 1998).
"EDSA as Vision and Liberation," in Lorna Kalaw-Tirol, ed. Looking Back, Looking Forward (Manila: Foundation for Worldwide People Power, 1996).
"The Human Rights Debacle in the Philippines," in Naomi Roht Arriaza, ed. Impunity and Human Rights in International Law and Practice (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
"Philippine Feminism in Historical Perspective,"in Barbara J. Nelson and Najmi Chowdhury, eds., Women and Politics Worldwide (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
"Independence with Strings: The Philippine Experience," in George Boughton and Paul Leary, eds. A Time of Change: Relations Between the United States and American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands (University of Guam and University of the Virgin Islands, 1994).
Courses taught:
Introduction to Political Science: (110 in the old system): A broad
survey course designed to introduce the basic concepts of politics and
the various fields of political science to freshmen and sophomores. Concepts
like power, ideology, legitimacy, sovereignty, authority, democracy, authoritarianism,
revolution, elites, political culture, nation-states and similar topics
will be defined and analyzed. The changing nature of the discipline of
political science will also be explored.
Philippine Politics: (345 in the old system): an
upper division undergraduate course aimed at analyzing and understanding
the various historical, cultural, economic and other forces that have
shaped the course of Philippine politics over time but especially during
the postcolonial period.
Southeast Asian Politics: (345 in the old system) an upper division
course to explore various political themes in the countries and societies
encompassed by the Southeast Asian region, including indigenous institutions,
colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, post-colonialism, the Cold War,
and current problems in nationbuilding and national development.
Comparative Politics (341 in the old system): A broad survey course
to introduce undergraduates to the subfield of Comparative Politics in
Political Science, particularly theoretical concepts like development,
modernization,democratization, Third World, political culture,
nationalism, imperialism, ethnicity, and so on.
Comparative Politics (640): A graduate proseminar to explore theoretical
developments in the field of Comparative Politics. Students are expected
to have some background of these theories, which the class will be discussing
and critiquing. Particular examples of how they have been applied in the
Third World, notably Southeast Asia, will also be analyzed in the course.
Asia-Pacific Politics: Southeast Asia (680): Advanced seminar to
interrogate major political changes in Southeast Asia especially in the
past 30 years. Role of superpowers in regional politics will be examined,
particularly the U.S., USSR, Russia and Japan will be examined. Will also
examine the role of tradition, indigenous forces and cultural values in
the context of modernization and democratization.
Asia-Pacific Politics: Philippines (680): Advanced seminar to analyze
Philippine politics and society over time. Major themes will include colonial
and post-colonial issues, Philippine-American relations, women and minorities,
poverty and inequality, elite-mass relations, the impact of globalization,
and continuing insurgencies, and economic problems. A section will be
devoted to an analysis of the Filipino diaspora.
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