Raymund Arthur G. Abejo is Assistant Professor 7 at the Department of History. His research interests include Asian Studies, Area Studies, and Korean Studies, with a particular focus on discourses and representations on the Philippines in Korean print media from 1890s to 1930s.
IAN CHRISTOPHER B. ALFONSO is an Assistant Professor of the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He is a Board Member of the Philippine Historical Association and a member of the UNESCO Memory of the World Program in the Philippines. He is a candidate for a Doctor of Philosophy in History at UP Diliman (where he also obtained his Master of Arts in History). His areas of interest are Philippine precolonial and early colonial history, the Philippine Revolution, toponymy, and the local history of Manila Bay communities (especially Bulacan and Pampanga).
KERBY C. ALVAREZ is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests include Philippine environmental history, history of natural hazards and disasters in the Philippines, history of science (meteorology and seismology), and local history (history of Malabon). The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) awarded him the Young Historian’s Prize 2015.
ROWENA QUINTO-BAILON is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines. Her research works focus on the American colonial period, studies on the Anti-Imperialist league, and Philippine Historiography.
EMMANUEL JAYSON V. BOLATA is an instructor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He is a recipient of the 2019 Empowering Network for International Thai and ASEAN Studies (ENITAS) Scholarship, from the Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. His book on children’s literature and history, Hindi Lang Basta Bata: Mga Pananaliksik at Panunuri sa Kasaysayan at Panitikang Pambata, was recently published by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino- UP Diliman in 2020.
MARIA LUISA T. CAMAGAY is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research interests are history of women, urban history, and local history.
Grace Liza Y. Concepcion holds a PhD in History from UP Diliman. Her current research projects delves into the emergence and development of Philippine colonial society in the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly focusing on people’s mobilities, labor, and property. She is especially interested in the intertwined lives of colonial subjects arising from the interactions of the Iberian empires in Southeast Asia. More recently, she has developed an interest in the configuration of public memory in the Philippines, its historical development, and the discourses that shape it.
ROS A. COSTELO is an Assistant Professor in the UP Department of History. She specializes on the history of Spanish colonial public works in the Philippines, history of Spanish colonial engineering, history of urbanization and local history of Leyte.
MA LUISA DE LEON-BOLINAO is currently Professor and former Chair of the UP History Department. Her research interests are Philippine and Asian environmental and disaster history, and post-war Philippine history. She has co-authored several History textbooks for the primary and secondary levels, and has served as referee for various local and international journals. She likewise serves as a Content Evaluator of History textbooks for the country's Department of Education.
Larah Vinda Del Mundo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. She holds a BA in Social Sciences from the University of the Philippines Baguio and an MA in History from UP Diliman. Before joining the faculty, she served as a University Research Associate at the Third World Studies Center, a research unit within the same university.
MARIA SERENA I. DIOKNO is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. She specializes in the history of the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War, Philippine Historiography, and South East Asian Studies.
KRISTOFFER R. ESQUEJO is Assistant Professor 3 at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He was a recipient of NCCA Young Historian’s Prize (2011), CSSP Junior Faculty Writing Fellowship (2011), Aboitiz Foundation Research Grant on the Galleon Trade in Mexico (2011-2012), and UP Diliman Centennial Faculty Grant (2018). His interests include the local history and religious history.
JELY A. GALANG is an Associate Professor of History at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Diliman, Quezon City. His dissertation examines the lives and circumstances of working-class Chinese in the nineteenth-century Philippines, with particular emphasis on vagrants, unemployed and marginally-employed, as well as those unable to pay their taxes and had no documents of identification. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Young Historian’s Prize for his master’s thesis on Ilocano migration to Tarlac (1860-1935). The Prize was awarded by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
FRANCISCO JAYME PAOLO A. GUIANG is an Assistant Professor at the UP Department of History. He obtained his B.A. History degree (cum laude, 2012) and M.A. History degree (2018) from UP Diliman. Currently taking his PhD in History in the same university, his research interests focus on Marxism in historical scholarship, the history of activist and student movements in the Philippines, and nationalism in the Philippines.
RICARDO T. JOSE is a Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He is the country's foremost scholar on the Second World War in the Philippines and the Asia-Pacific. He specializes in military and diplomatic history, with focus on the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
DEDINA A. LAPAR is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research interests include Philippine economic history and Asian civilizations.
FRANCIS JUSTINE M. MALBAN is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. His research works include Philippine political and social history, with a focus on the history of mental health and mental health institutions in the Philippines.
KRISTYL N. OBISPADO is an Assistant professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. She specializes on 16th-18th century Philippines, history of the galleon trade, and Filipino migration to Mexico during the Spanish colonial period.
RUEL V. PAGUNSAN is an Associate Professor and current Chairperson of the Department of History, University of the Philippine Diliman, He specializes in Philippine environmental history, history of science, and diplomatic history.
MICAH JEIEL R. PEREZ is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. His research interests include the nineteenth-century Philippines, the history of Philippine sports, Martial Law studies, and Indo-Pacific defense and security.
MA. MERCEDES G. PLANTA is Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research works are on the history of medicine in the Philippines and Asia, history of science, and history of Southeast Asia.
KARL FRIEDRIK K. POBLADOR an Assistant Professor at UP History Department. He finished his bachelor’s degree in economics and his MA History degree at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He regularly writes articles, present papers and engages in research on the history of Philippine economic institutions, particularly transportation.
Dondy Pepito G. Ramos II is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of History. His research interests include local history of Pampanga, biographical studies, and Philippine social history.
LORENZ TIMOTHY BARCO RANERA is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He was previously a faculty member at the Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, University of the Philippines Manila. He has a degree in BS Computer Science (2019) and MA History (2023). His research focuses on Philippine legal history (particularly development of marriage laws and criminal laws) and natural language processing (particularly NLP applications to legal corpora). He is also interested in pursuing the use of advanced statistics, modeling, and NLP methods, in writing historical narratives and social science research.
Janet S. Reguindin-Estella is an Assistant Professor at the UP Department of History where she finished her degrees in BA, MA and PhD in History. Her research interests include local and environmental history (Zambales), life history and women's history. In 2012, she was awarded the National Young Historian's Prize by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). She is currently the Secretary of Asosasyon ng mga Dalubhasa, may Hilig at Interes sa Kasaysayan (ADHIKA) ng Pilipinas, Inc.
NEIL MARTIAL R. SANTILLAN is a Professor of History and former Chairperson of the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He specializes in contemporary Philippine History, film history, and history of Mindanao.
PATRICK JAMES B. SERRA is an Instructor at the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman,. His research interests are diplomatic history and culture and heritage studies.
Nicholas Sy is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Department of History. In 2017 he received his Master’s degree in History at the Ateneo de Manila University. For his MA thesis, Nicholas presented a quantitative challenge to the common notion that colonial era political elites primarily married within their own social circle.
Aaron F. Viernes is an Instructor at the UP Department of History. His research interests are local history, military history, cultural history, and sports history.
VICENTE C. VILLAN is a Professor at the UP Department of History, and a Faculty Fellow at the Asian Center, UP Diliman. He specializes in heritage studies and museology, discourse studies in the social sciences, Spanish Philippines, Visayan history and culture, history of the Philippine Revolution, and Philippine Martial History.
Rhodalyn C. Wani-Obias is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of the Philippines, Diliman where she graduated with degrees in BA Sociology and MA History. She is currently a PhD candidate in History at the same university with her research focus on exploring networks of propaganda between 19th century Philippines and Europe. Aside from 19th century Philippines and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, her research interests also include discourses on nationalism and identity, social history, and history of emotions.
