Conveners
Pia Arboleda
Recipient 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 Magdalena
Committee Members
Stephen Acabado
Stephen Acabado: is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His archaeological investigations in Ifugao, northern Philippines, have established the recent origins of the Cordillera Rice Terraces, which were once known to be at least 2,000 years old. Dr. Acabado directs the Bicol and Ifugao Archaeological Projects and co-directs the Taiwan Indigenous Landscape and History Project. He is a strong advocate of an engaged archaeology where descendant communities are involved in the research process.
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Nelia G. Balgoa
Dr. Nelia G. Balgoa is currently professor of the English Department of MSU-IIT. She holds a Doctor in Human Sciences and an MA in Language and Culture from Osaka University, Osaka Japan, where she studied on a Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship. She was a former editor-in-chief of Langkit Journal, the official journal of the College of Arts and Social Sciences of MSU-IIT. She is currently completing a research project on Mother Tongue Based Multilanguage Education (MTBLE) program of the Philippines. She was also a fellow of the Asia Leadership Fellow Program of the Japan Foundation and International Deans’ Course of German Exchange Academic Service. Her research interests include language and Philippine migration, language and culture and Philippine Literature. Her forthcoming publication, in collaboration with the Viktoriya Kim and Beverley Yamamoto is a book entitled “The Politics of International Marriage in Japan” to be published by Rutgers Press.
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Labi Hadji Sarip Riwarung
Prof. Labi Hadji Sarip Riwarung is a Ph.D. in Philippines Studies, is the chairman of the folklore division of the Mamitua Saber Research Center, Mindanao State University. She has been the Mindanao representative for the executive council of the National Committee on Historical research under the umbrella of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts.
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Mark John Sanchez
Mark John Sanchez is a lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in History & Literature at Harvard University, where he teaches courses on human rights, Ethnic Studies, and the Cold War. His current monograph focuses on the work of grassroots activists and political detainees in constructing a transnational opposition to the Marcos regime. He researches topics broadly related to the Philippines and its diasporas, and he has specific research interests in human rights, gambling, labor, and migration.
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Secretariat Head
Clemen C. Montero
Clemen 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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Student Assistants
Rovie Jay Dacumos
Angela Christie Mastrile
Jomar Mendez |