Geronimo Cristobal

Tag: Professors

  • Vicente Rafael, Historian, 70

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    Vicente L. Rafael (February 16, 1956 – February 21, 2026) was a pioneering historian of the Philippines whose work transformed the study of colonialism and political power. A longtime professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Rafael reshaped Philippine historiography by demonstrating how empire operates through language and the fraught…

  • Professor Salamanca and the prospect of American Studies in the Philippines

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    One of the articles I unearthed while researching for my literature review last semester was Professor Bonifacio Salamanca’s article on the attempt to institute a Department of American Studies at the University of the Philippines. Salamanca received his Ph.D. in American Studies in the early 1950s from Yale University where he was a scholar of…