People

Abejo, Raymund Arthur G.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Asian Studies, Area Studies, Korean Studies

Alfonso, Ian Christopher B.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Local history of Upper Manila Bay communities, Toponymy, Cultural heritage and management, Animal history

Alvarez, Kerby C.

Professor

Focus: Environmental History, History of Hazards and Disasters in the Philippines, Philippine Nationalism, Philippine Popular Culture, Local History of Malabon

Bailon, Rowena Q.

Professor (On Sabbatical)

Focus: American colonial period, Anti-Imperialist league, Philippine Historiography

Bolata, Emmanuel Jayson V.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Cultural history of science (astronomy and cosmology), Literary studies (particularly on Philippine folk epics, poetry, and children’s literature), Folklore studies, Local history of Marinduque, Philippines

Concepcion, Grace Liza Y.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Asian mobilities in the Philippines and Spanish empire, Land ownership, property, inheritance in the 17th-18th century

Costelo, Ros A.

Associate Professor (On Leave)

Focus: History of Spanish colonial public works in the Philippines, History of Spanish colonial engineering, History of urbanization, Local history of Leyte

De Leon-Bolinao, Ma. Luisa

Professor

Focus: Philippine and Asian environmental, Disaster history, Post-war Philippine history

Del Mundo, Larah Vinda

Assistant Professor

Focus: Marcos regime research, Urban history

Esquejo, Kristoffer R.

Professor

Focus: local history, religious history

Galang, Jely A.

Professor

Focus: Nineteenth century Philippines, Modern history of East Asia particularly China, History of Crime and Punishment

Guiang, Francisco Jayme Paolo A.

Assistant Professor

Focus: American colonial period and early decolonization, intellectual history and postcolonial decolonization, Philippine nationalist historiography, studies on the Martial Law period in the Philippines

Lapar, Dedina A.

Associate Professor

Focus: Philippine economic history, Asian civilizations

Malban, Francis Justine M.

Assistant Professor

Focus: History of medicine, History of mental health, American colonial period

Obispado, Kristyl N.

Associate Professor

Focus: 16th to the 19th centuries, labor history, transpacific trade, mobility, migration

Pagunsan, Ruel V.

Associate Professor

Focus: Environmental history, History of science, Diplomatic history

Perez, Micah Jeiel R.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Nineteenth-century Philippines, History of Philippine sports, Martial Law studies, Indo-Pacific defense and security

Planta, Ma. Mercedes G.

Professor

Focus: History of medicine in the Philippines and Asia, History of Science, History of Southeast Asia

Poblador, Karl Friedrik K.

Associate Professor

Focus: Economic History, Transport History, Political Economy , Institutional Histories, Corporate Histories

Ramos, Dondy Pepito G. II

Assistant Professor (Study Leave)

Focus: history of memory, memorialisation of early modern maritime empires (Spanish Empire and VOC), comparative history, maritime history, monuments, public commemorations, museum exhibitions

Ranera, Lorenz Timothy Barco

Assistant Professor

Focus: Legal History, Natural Language Processing, Computational History

Reguindin-Estella, Janet S.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Local history (Zambales), Environmental history, Life history, Women's history

Santillan, Neil Martial R.

Professor

Focus: Contemporary Philippine History, Film history, History of Mindanao

Serra, Patrick James B.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Diplomatic history of the Philippines, Cultural heritage studies, Cold War period

Sy, Nicholas Michael C.

Assistant Professor (Study Leave)

Focus: Early modern Spanish empire, Demographic history, History of conversion, Political elites, Historical biography, Digital humanities

Viernes, Aaron F.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Martial Law studies, Human rights, Sports history

Villan, Vicente C.

Professor

Focus: Heritage studies and museology, Discourse studies in the social sciences, Spanish Philippines, Visayan history and culture, History of the Philippine Revolution, Philippine Martial History.

Wani-Obias, Rhodalyn C.

Assistant Professor

Focus: Networks of propaganda between 19th century Philippines and Europe, Nationalism and identity, Social history, History of emotions