PhD in Indigenous Studies-UP Baguio

Join the next cohort of our Ph.D Indigenous Studies program, https://css.upb.edu.ph/graduate-programs/phd-indigenous-studies/

APPLICATIONS due June 30, 2025.

Congratulations Dr. JUAN EMMANUEL FERNANDEZ for winning Cornell's 2024 Sharp Prize History. Dr. Fernandez is Senior Lecturer of the Ph.D Indigenous Studies Program, and full-time Faculty of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. https://history.wisc.edu/people/fernandez-juan/

We are delighted to award the 2024 Sharp Prize to Juan Fernandez’s Becoming Anthropologists/Becoming Natives: S*x, Gender, and the Ethnographic Encounter in the American Colonial Philippines. Becoming Anthropologists/Becoming Natives is a brilliant, lucid dissertation that illuminates how the performance of gender and ideas of masculinity were crucial in colonial ethnographic encounters in early twentieth century Philippine highlands. This impressive interdisciplinary thesis engages with the fields of anthropology, history, history of science, Southeast Asian studies, feminist studies, trans and q***r studies. It also stands on unimpeachably solid empirical foundations, with source materials written in Tagalog, Spanish, and English and obtained from archives and libraries at Cornell, Michigan, Library of Congress, Chicago, and the Philippines. A true testament to the value and purpose of interdisciplinary scholarship, Juan’s exemplary dissertation conveys the importance of deep comparative knowledge of Southeast Asia. We anticipate that this dissertation will be widely read by scholars within and beyond Southeast Asian studies, and we also expect that its deft engagement with the history of anthropology will serve as a model for how other disciplines rethink their historical origins, in particular through the colonial encounter but also on through the contemporary era. We are pleased to award the Sharp Prize to such a compelling interdisciplinary dissertation, and to recognize Juan as a dedicated leader in the intellectual life of the Southeast Asia Program.

-- Tom Pepinsky and Juno Salazar Parreñas
This was first published in the Spring 2025 SEAP Bulletin

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Ph.D Indigenous Studies
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Here are the application deadlines of each of our graduate programs for the 1st Semester, A.Y. 2025-2026.

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HAPPENING TOMORROW! March 12, Tuesday 12NN. With our Graduate Students.

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The Cordillera Studies Center is pleased to invite everyone to a HYBRID format lecture by our CSC Research Affiliate, Dr. Kim Esther Knibbe of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, on 11 March 2025 (Tuesday), 12:00nn to 1:30pm, at the CSS AVR, UP Baguio. You may also attend via Zoom by registering below:

https://bit.ly/KnibbeCSCLec
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Here is more information about Dr. Knibbe’s talk and research project:

ABSTRACT

Globally, the current moment is characterized by an intensification of a decades long polarisation around sexual and reproductive health and rights. This talk outlines how we might develop an anthropological and comparative lens, theorizing from the ground up rather than from the top down. This approach proposes to look at pregnancy and motherhood as processes in which relationalities and agency take shape. Describing some preliminary results from ongoing research, Dr. Knibbe will discuss why the Cordillera is an especially interesting place to look at these processes.

This lecture is part of the CSC’s celebration of Women’s Month 2025. See you there!

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. The Cordillera Studies Center is pleased to invite everyone to a HYBRID format lecture by our CSC Research Affiliate, Dr. Kim Esther Knibbe of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, on 11 March 2025 (Tuesday), 12:00nn to 1:30pm, at the CSS AVR, UP Baguio. You may also attend via Zoom by registering below:

https://bit.ly/KnibbeCSCLec
https://bit.ly/KnibbeCSCLec
https://bit.ly/KnibbeCSCLec

Here is more information about Dr. Knibbe’s talk and research project:

ABSTRACT

Globally, the current moment is characterized by an intensification of a decades long polarisation around sexual and reproductive health and rights. This talk outlines how we might develop an anthropological and comparative lens, theorizing from the ground up rather than from the top down. This approach proposes to look at pregnancy and motherhood as processes in which relationalities and agency take shape. Describing some preliminary results from ongoing research, Dr. Knibbe will discuss why the Cordillera is an especially interesting place to look at these processes.

This lecture is part of the CSC’s celebration of Women’s Month 2025. See you there!

FREE ACCESS in celebration of August 9 IP day, https://thecordillerareview.upb.edu.ph/archives/journal-of-philippine-culture-and-society-volume-iii-number-1-2/

The Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, is one in the celebration of the 2024 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples today, 9 August 2024.

Today's suggested read: The Cordillera Review Volume 3, featuring back-to-back issues on the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997. Available on open access through our website at https://thecordillerareview.upb.edu.ph/

AUGUST 9, 2024 via https://www.ohchr.org/en/indigenous-peoples/e-learning-tool-rights-indigenous-peoples

Indigenous Peoples have sought recognition of their identities, their way of life and their right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources for years. Yet, throughout history, their rights have been violated. Indigenous Peoples today, are arguably among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable groups of people in the world. The international community now recognizes that special measures are required to protect their rights and maintain their distinct cultures and way of life.

August 9 commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, chosen in recognition of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations held in Geneva in 1982.

𝟓𝟐 𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐞𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚-𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬! 🥳

Ang buong listahan at access link ay matatagpuan sa link na ito: https://mainlib.upd.edu.ph/filipiniana-ebsco-ebooks/.

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The Faculty, Visiting Professors & Lecturers of UP Baguio's Indigenous Studies Program.

"In our analysis, in our advocacy, we have to somehow make space for complexity, for agency, for contradiction rather than see [the complexity of Indigeneity] as a problem that has to be explained away. But that should be the starting point, arguably, for our engagements and our analysis rather than a roadblock to either researching with or doing advocacy with Indigenous peoples."

This was how Visiting Professor Noah Theriault ended his lecture, "Navigating the Dilemmas of Indigeneity,” last Friday, July 12, 2024. In proposing what can be done to better understand Indigeneity in the Philippines, he argued for a pluralized appreciation of Indigeneities, an engagement of Indigeneity as an analytic rather than as an identity, and an embrace of a both/and thinking that resists an either/or approach.

Prof. Theriault’s well-attended public lecture officially closed the College of Social Sciences SSREI Training on Doing Research with Indigenous Communities.

CSS would like to thank the Zoom attendees and in-person participants who joined the event.