Kerby C. Alvarez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of the Philippines Diliman
About
Kerby C. Alvarez, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. He finished Bachelor of Arts in History (2010) and Master of Arts in History (2014) in UP Diliman. He obtained a Doctorat en Histoire, Art, at Archeólogie (HISTAR) degree from the Université de Namur in Belgium (2019). The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) awarded him the Young Historian’s Prize 2015. His research interests include environmental history, history of environmental sciences, history of hazards and disasters in the Philippines, development of Philippine nationalism, and the local history of his hometown, Malabon.
Academic Background
Doctorat en Histoire, Historire de l’Art et Archéologie (HISTAR)
Université de Namur (Belgium)
Université de Namur (Belgium)
Master of Arts (History)
University of the Philippines Diliman
University of the Philippines Diliman
Bachelor of Arts (History), magna cum Laude
University of the Philippines Diliman
University of the Philippines Diliman
Research Interests
- Environmental History
- History of Hazards and Disasters in the Philippines
- Philippine Nationalism
- Popular Culture
- Local History of Malabon
Undegraduate Courses Taught
- KAS 1: Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas (History of the Philippines)
- Kas 2: Asia and the World
- Kas 10: Introduction to History
- Kas 110: Colonial Philippines 1
- Kas 116: Development of Philippine Nationalism
- Kas 120: Environmental History of the Philippines
- STS 1: Science, Technology, and Society
Graduate Courses Taught
- Kas 210: Problems in the Interpretation of Philippines History
- Kas 250: Seminar in Philippines History
- Kas 297: Teaching of History in the Tertiary Level: Theory and Practice
- Kas 398 : Problems in Historiography
Books
- Alvarez Kerby C. (ed.). 2024. AGOS: Currents of Faith in the Diocese of Kalookan. Caloocan City: The Roman Catholic Bishop of Kalookan, Inc., Diocese of Archives Diocesan Archives and Museum, and Diocese of Kalookan Committee on Cultural Heritage of the Church.
- Alvarez, Kerby, De Leon-Bolinao, Maria Luisa, and Mallari, Aaron Abel. 2012. Hiram Lodge No. 88: 88 Years of Freemasonry (1924-2012). Manila: Hiram Lodge No. 88.
Book Chapters
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2024. “Rumors, Panic, and Disasters: The Experience of Candelaria Town in Quezon Province, Philippines, 1934 and 2014.” in Olivier Servais and Lionel Simon, Disasters: Indigenous Knowledge and Resilience: Natural hazards, disasters, and indigenous adaptations in Southeast Asia (Philippines–Indonesia): 87-104. Louvain-La-Neuve: Karthala Belgique.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2024. “Paramount Yet Frontier: A Historiographical Appraisal of Select 18th-Century Philippine Geological Disasters.” in Kristyl N. Obispado and Daniel Orizaga (eds.), Sincronías Barrocas (Siglos XVI-XVIII): Agentes, textos y objetos entre Iberoamérica, Asia y Europa: 295-336. Sevilla: Universidad de Pablo Olavide Publicaciones EnRedARS Publicaciones.
- Alvarez, Kerby. 2017. “Philippine Weather Bureau: Institusyong Pang-Agham sa Kolonyal na Pilipinas, 1901-1941”, Lloyd Ranises and Ryan Palad (eds.), Kagawaran: Mga Institusyon at Paglilingkod Bayan sa Kasaysayan at Kalinangang Pilipino, 1898-1946. Manila: ADHIKA ng Pilipinas, Inc. at National Commission for Culture and the Arts, 2017, pp. 151-188.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2015. “Sa Saliw ng Init at Ulan: Isang Kasaysayang Agro-Klimatiko ng Gitnang Luzon, 1900-1927”, Navarro, Atoy M., Mary Jane B. Rodriguez-Tatel, and Vicente C. Villan (eds.), Pantayong Pananaw: Pagbubunyi kay Zeus A. Salazar, Volume 1: Araling Pangkapaligiran, Pilipinolohiya, Sikolohiyang Pilipino, Pilosopiyang Pilipino, at Araling Kabanwahan. Quezon City: Bahay-Saliksikan sa Kasaysayan, Bagong Kasaysayan, Inc.
- Alvarez, Kerby. 2014. “Baha-sa Malabon: Isang Historiko-Kultural na Kasaysayan ng Pagbaha sa Malabon” in Puod: Kasaysayan at Kalinangan ng mga Pamayanang Maritimo sa Pilipinas. Manila: Asosasyon ng mga Dalubhasa, May Hilig at Interes sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas (ADHIKA ng Pilipinas), Inc.
- Alvarez, Kerby. 2013. “Locating Liberalism behind Natural Dilemmas: Reflections on the Cadiz Constitution of 1812 and Natural Disasters in Spanish Colonial Philippines” in The Philippines and the Cadiz Constitution of 1812. Manila: National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
- Alvarez, Kerby. 2012. “El Pueblo de Tambobong: Isang Kasaysayan ng Malabon noong Dantaon 17 at 18” in Navarro, Arthur, Rinna Orillos-Juan, Janet Reguindin and Adonis Elumbre, Kasaysayang Pampook: Pananaw, Pananaliksik, Pagtuturo. Quezon City: U.P. Lipunang Pangkasaysayan (U.P. LIKAS).
- Alvarez, Kerby, Eduard Doron Flores, and Gil Turingan. 2008. “Pagpapatalas ng Talastas: Saysay ng Seminar, Sampaksaan, at Kumperensiya bilang Pantulong sa Pagtuturo ng Kasaysayan” in Navarro, Arthur, Alvin Campomanes and John Lee Candelaria, Kaalaman at Pamamaraan sa Pagtuturo ng Kasaysayan. Quezon City: U.P. Lipunang Pangkasaysayan (U.P. LIKAS).
Journal Articles/Conference Proceedings
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2024. “Explosions et représentations : vignettes scientifiques et culturelles des éruptions du Taal” (Explosions and Visualizations: Scientific and Cultural Vignettes of Taal Volcano’s Eruptions. Frédèric Laugrand and Francis Walsh, trans.) Frontières 34(2) [Funestes volcans?]: 1-30.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2024. “A History of Institutional Meteorology in the Philippines, 1865-1972” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.942
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2023. “Observing Heavens, Marking Time: The Astronomical Work of the Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila (OMM), later reorganized as the Philippine Weather Bureau (PWB), 1891-1945.” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage 26(1): 9-30.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2023. “Rizal’s Project: Historical Reconstruction of the Philippine Past.” 1521 Revisited: The Quincentennial Commemorations in the Philippines Volume 2: 148-188. Manila: National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2023. “A Cultural Minority’s Disaster Survival Experience: The August 1968 Luzon Earthquake, the Ruby Tower Tragedy, and the Chinese in Manila." China and Asia: A Journal of Historical Studies 4(2) [Special Issue: Chinese in Philippine History]: 286-323.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2022. “A Historical Seismology of Luzon Earthquakes in the 20th Century: The Dynamics of State Responses on Four Earthquake Disasters.” Philippine Social Sciences Review 74(1): 31-79.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2021. “Patriotic Masculinity: Nationalism and Masculinity in Select Philippine Historical Films.” Southeast Asian Media Studies Journal 3(2): 77-106.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2020. “Ang Dalawang Maria ng Malabon: Panata Bilang Pagsasabuhay sa mga Pagpapahalagang Pilipino sa Konteksto ng Ugnayang Pangkasaysayan at Pangkalinangan ng La Inmaculada Concepcion at La Purisima Concepcion ng Malabon,” DIWA E-Journal 7: 1-38.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2020. “The June 1863 and the July 1880 Earthquakes in Luzon, Philippines: Interpretations and Disasters,” Illes y Imperis 22 (2020): 147-169. DOI: 10.31009/ilesimperis.2020.i22.08
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2016. “Instrumentation and Institutionalization: Colonial Science and the Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila, 1865-1899”, Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 64 (3-4), pp. 359-384.
- lvarez, Kerby C. 2016. “Ang Observatorio Meteorológico de Manila, ang Philippine Weather Bureau, at ang Sektor ng Agrikultura sa Pilipinas, 1865-1937: Isang Panimulang Kasaysayan ng Institusyunal na Agrometeorolohiya sa Pilipinas”, SALIKSIK E-Journal 5 (1), pp. 1-50.
- Alvarez, Kerby C. 2011. “Sa Saliw ng Init at Ulan: Isang Kasaysayang Agro-Klimatiko ng Gitnang Luzon, 1900-1927”, Philippine Social Sciences Review 63 (2), pp. 89-117.
Book Reviews
- Malini Johar Schueller. 2021. Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan. Ateneo de Manila University Press. Published 10 December 2021
- Lisandro Claudio. 2017. "Liberalism and the Postcolony: Thinking of the State in the 20th-Century Philippines" Kyoto University and Ateneo de Manila University Press. International Journal of Asian Studies 17(1), published by the Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia-University of Tokyo and the Cambridge University Press., 2020.
- Anduaga, Aitor. 2017. Cyclones & Earthquakes: The Jesuits, Prediction, Trade, & Spanish Dominion in Cuba & the Philippines, 1850–1898. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. 375 pages. Published in Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 66(1), 2018.
- Waterson, Roxana and Kian-Woon, Kwok, editors. 2012. Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia. Singapore: National University of Singapore (NUS) Press. 300 pages. Published in Hukay: Journal for Archaeological Research in Asia and the Pacific 18, 2013.
- Warren, James Francis. 1981. The Sulu Zone, 1768-1898: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State. Manila: New Day Publishing, Second Edition, 2007. 400 pages. Published in Saliksik E-Journal 2 (1), 2013.
Ongoing Projects
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Malabon History Book Project, City Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office (CTCAO), City Government of Malabon, August 2024-present.
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Project Co-editor, Marcos, Martial Law, and the Complexities of Memory in the Philippines, April 2024-present
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Project Researcher, “Project 2021: the Philippines, 1565-1898”, University of the Philippines, May 2019-present.
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