Kristyl N. Obispado, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
University of the Philippines Diliman
About
Kristyl Obispado, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. She holds a PhD and MA in History from El Colegio de México. Her current research focuses on Philippine labor history from the 16th to the 19th century, as well as on transpacific trade, mobility, and migration during the Spanish colonial period.
Academic Background
PhD in History
El Colegio de México
El Colegio de México
MA in History
El Colegio de México
El Colegio de México
MA in History
University of the Philippines Diliman
University of the Philippines Diliman
BA in History
University of the Philippines Diliman
University of the Philippines Diliman
Research Interests
- Early global history
- Colonial labor history
- Maritime history
- 16th-18th century Philippines
Undegraduate Courses Taught
- KAS 1: General History of the Philippines
- Kas 110: Colonial Philippines under Spain present
- Kas 160: Latin America: Pre-Columbian to 1821
- Kas 161: Latin American History from 1821 to the present
- Kas 198: Special Topics: Paleography and Primary Sources
Graduate Courses Taught
- Kas 202: The Philippines, 1521-1600
- Kas 203: The Philippines during the 17th and 18th centuries
Book Chapters
- “Lo que entra por la boca no hace daño al alma: Food, sailors, and the seventeenth-century Spanish Pacific” In Sincronías Barrocas (Siglos XVI-XVIII): Agentes, textos y objetos entre Iberoamérica, Asia y Europa. Colección de Universo Barroco de la Enredars Publicaciones de la Universidad Pablo Olavide, 2024: 135-158.
- “Textiles and Other Trade Goods: The Philippines in the Sixteenth-Century Global Trade” In Philippine Studies: Plural Entanglements, ADMU Press, 2023: 58-83. 𝗘𝗹𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗦. 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝘇 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀, National Book Awards 2024.
- “The case of the dead sailors and the things they left: A microhistorical analysis of the Carrera del Pacífico in the sixteenth century” In Europa y América: el mar y la primera globalización, Colección Historia Medieval y Moderna 96, Universidad del País Vasco y / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Press, 2023: 199-212.
Journal Articles/Conference Proceedings
Ongoing Projects
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Co-editor with Ruel Pagunsan. Shaping the World of the Indios: The Philippines in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The History Department (University of the Philippines, Diliman) and EnredARS (Área de Historia del Arte, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville).
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Co-coordinator with Iván Valdez-Bubnov and Alberto Angulo Morales. Los fundamentos industriales del galeón de Manila-Acapulco: fiscalidad, contratación de procesos productivos y movilización de proletariados marítimos, 1565-1815. Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
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Series Editor. A five-volume book titled Galleons and Social Control in the Spanish Empire, The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), Quezon City.
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Co-editor with Ruel Pagunsan. The Filipino worldview through art, images, and objects: From indigenous culture to the 19th century. The History Department (University of the Philippines, Diliman) and EnredARS (Área de Historia del Arte, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville).
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Mexico Research Group Member Digital Humanities Project. “Mapping Philippine Material Culture: Locating Philippine-made Objects from the 16th- mid 20th c. in Mexico,” a joint project of SOAS of the University of London and Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), 2024-2025. Project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Maria Cristina Juan (SOAS).
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Research Team Member. “La experiencia imperial hispánica: espacios, agentes y prácticas de poder en el origen del mundo interconectado (1492-1621)”. Project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Luis Salas Almela (Universidad de Córdoba).
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