Assistant Professor in Political Science
Department of Economics and Political Science
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Auckland, 2022
M.A., Political Science, University of the Philippines, 2013
B.A., University of the Philippines, 2001

Publications

Mendoza, L.C.; Cruz, G.A.; Ciencia, A.N.; and Penalba, M.A. 2020. “Local Policy and Water Access in Baguio City, Philippines.” International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable
Development, Vol. 20, Issue 1 (January-March 2020), pp.1-13.

Ciencia, A.N.; Mendoza, L.C.; Cruz, G.A.; Penalba, M.A.; Calde, N.L.; M.R. and Cabalfin, M.R. 2017. “Water Security and Urban Resilience: The Case of Baguio City, Philippines,” pp.146-164. Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities: Governance for a more Resilient Urban Future, edited by Diane Archer, Sarah Colenbrander, David Dodman. Routledge

Mendoza, L.C.; Ciencia, A.N.; Cruz, G.; Penalba, M.; Calde, N.; and Cabalfin, M. 2016. “Engaging Communities in Addressing Water Security, Sanitation, and Urban Resilience Challenges in Baguio City,” A report submitted to the ICLEI-Southeast Asia Secretariat.

Ciencia, A.N.; Mendoza, L.C.; Cruz, G.; Calde, N.; Cabalfin, M.; and Penalba, M. 2015. “Towards Establishing Water Security and Urban Resilience in the City of Baguio,” Asian Cities Climate Resilience Working Paper Series, 27-2015.

Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

Ph.D., in Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 1987
M.A., in Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 1975
B.A., in Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 1971

Research Interests

Indigenous culture, Cordillera, ethnohistory

Publications

Prill-Brett, June. Tradition and Transformation: Studies on Cordillera Indigenous Culture. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 2015.

Prill-Brett, June. A Comparative Study of Agricultural Commercialization in Selected Highland Communities of the Cordillera-Ilocos Region. CSC Working Papers 24. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 1994.

Prill-Brett, June. Common Property Regimes among the Bontok of the Northern Philippine Highlands and State Policies. CSC Working Papers 21. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 1993.

Prill-Brett, June. Ibaloy Customary Law on Land Resources. CSC Working Papers 19. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 1992.

Prill-Brett, June. Baguio: A Multi-Ethnic City and the Development of the Ibaloy as an Ethnic Minority. CSC Working Papers 15. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 1990.

Prill-Brett, June. Indigenous Experience of Autonomy in the Cordillera. CSC Working Papers 10. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 1989.

Prill-Brett, June. The Bontok Chuno Feast in the Context of Modernization. CSC Working Papers 12. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 1989.

Prill-Brett, June. A Survey of Cordillera Indigenous Political Institutions. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio, 1987.

Prill-Brett, June. Coping Strategies in the Bontok Highland Agroecosystem: The Role of Ritual. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio,1987.

Prill-Brett, June. Pechen: The Bontok Peace Pact Institution. Baguio City: Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio,1987.

Visiting Professor (Sem 1, AY 2021-2022)
PhD Indigenous Studies
York University

Academic Background

Doctorate of Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1999
Master of Arts, University of Toronto, 1992
Cours de français, Université Laval, 1991
Bachelor of Arts Joint Honours, McGill University, 1990

Research Interests

Indigenous peoples in northern North America before 1900; Global Indigenous Histories; French colonialism in early North America; Metis and fur trade history; Anishinaabe history; oral history; ethnohistory; linguistic history and history of the book; cultural

Publications

2021: Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny, “Bannock Diplomacy: How Metis Women Fought Battles and Made Peace in North Dakota, 1850s-1870s” accepted to Ethnohistory. Forthcoming May 2021.

2019: Carolyn Podruchny, Jesse Thistle, and Elizabeth Jameson, “Women on the Margins of Imperial Plots: Farming on Borrowed Land” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada 29: 1 (158-81). 23 pp.

2019: Émilie Pigeon and Carolyn Podruchny, “The Mobile Village: Metis Women, Bison Brigades, and Social Order on the Nineteenth-Century Plains” Violence, Order, and Unrest: A History of British North America, 1749-1876, edited by Elizabeth Mancke, Scott See, Jerry Bannister, and Denis McKim, 236-63 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). 27 pp.

2018: Carolyn Podruchny, “Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood Among French-Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade” Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place, edited by Peter Gossage and Robert Rutherdale, 333-46 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).13 pp.

2017 : Carolyn Podruchny, « Le grand voyage de la tortue qui désirait voler. Motifs oraux, échanges culturels et histoires transfrontalières dans la traite des fourrures » Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada 27: 1 (231-62). 31 pp.

2016: Carolyn Podruchny, “Trickster Lessons in Early Canadian Indigenous Communities” Siberica 15:1 (Spring), 62-80. 18 pp.

2016: Carolyn Podruchny and Stacy Nation-Knapper, “Fur Trades” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, edited by Jon Butler, (Oxford University Press) http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/. 40 pp.

2016: Carolyn Podruchny and Jesse A. Thistle, “A Geography of Blood: Uncovering the Hidden Histories of Metis People in Canada” Spaces of Difference: Conflicts and Cohabitation, edited by Ursula Lehmkuhl, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, and Laurence McFalls, 61-79 (Münster and New York: Waxmann). 18 pp.

Instructor in Philosophy
Department of History and Philosophy
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

MA Philosophy Candidate, University of Santo Tomas
BA Philosophy, University of Santo Tomas, 2017

Research Interests

Critical theory, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Decolonial Philosophy, Social Philosophy

Academic Organizations

Women Doing Philosophy (WDP)

Extension Services

Article Reviewer, Talisik: An Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

Associate Editor, Talisik: An Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy (2013-2018)

Research and Publications

Basa, Venus Ae Kael, Mancenido-Bolanos, Marella, Gapo, Prince Airick and Miranda, Raphaella Elaine. “Cultivating Reasonableness Among Filipino Children” in Cultivating Reasonableness in Education. Edited by Marella Mancenido-Bolanos, Cathlyn Joy P. Alvarez-Abarejo, and Leander Penaso Marquez. Singapore: Springer, 2023. 285-300.

Miranda, Raphaella Elaine. Adorno Contra Transcendentalism: “A Critique of Husserl’s Notion of Objectivity”. Scientia: An International Journal of the Liberal Arts 9 (no. 2). 66-75.

Select Lectures and Engagements

Panelist, Beauvoir in Dialogue with Asia, The International Simone de Beauvoir Society via Zoom. March 2023.

“Preliminary Notes on Filipino Feminism from the Margins,” KAMALAYAN, Polytechnic University of the Philippines. June 2022.

“What is Critical Theory?,” Introductory Lecture Series: Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Concilium Philosophiae, University of Santo Tomas. March 2019.

Instructor in History
Department of History and Philosophy
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

M.A., History, University of the Philippines Baguio, ongoing
M.A., ASEAN Studies units, University of the Philippines Open University
B.A., Social Sciences (Major in History, Minor in Political Science), cum laude

Research Interests

Ethnohistory, Cultural History, Southern Cordillera, Southeast Asia
History 3: History of Philippine Ethnic Minorities
History 114: Cultural History of the Philippines
History 119: History of Ethnic Minorities in Southeast Asia

Academic Organizations

Member, ALIGUYON-UP Folklore Society

Extension Services

Adviser, Street to School – Cordillera (STS-C)

Publications

Reginaldo, João Paulo D, Gray, Jeraiah, Pototanon, Ruchie Mark, Ragay, Precious Maecah. 2022. Trails of Taste: Manila-Fujian Food Exchange in the Age of Galleons. Confucius Institute: Ateneo De Manila University. (in press)

Reginaldo, João Paulo D. 2021. Lingguwistikong Etnograpiya ng Filipinas (Iguwak). Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.

Reginaldo, Joao Paulo D. 2021. The Ethnohistory of the Karao of the Southern Cordillera, Northern Luzon, Philippines. The Cordillera Review: Journal of Philippine Culture and Society. Volume XI, Number 1-2 March 2021 – September 2021. ISSN (print) 2094-0262 | ISSN (online) 2799-001X.

Visiting Professor (Midyear, AY 2022-2023)
MA Social and Development Studies
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dr. Richard Chu, a faculty member of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of History, taught a mixed MA Social and Development Studies class this midyear term. The class was composed of students from the MA SDS and MA History (Ethnohistory and Local History) programs of the College of Social Sciences.

Professor of History
Department of History and Philosophy
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

Ph.D., History, University of the Philippines, 2005
M.A., Social and Development Studies, University of the Philippines, 1996
B.A., Social Sciences (History and Political Science), University of the Philippines, 1986

Publications

“Constructing the Boundaries of Places, Spaces and Identities in Abra (1823-1904)” Vol. VI, No. 1 March 2016. The Cordillera Review: Journal of Philippine Culture and Society. Baguio City: UP Baguio Cordillera Studies Center.

“History of Small-scale Mining in Fidelisan, Sagada, Mountain Province.” A Chapter of Main Report: Small-scale Mining in Sagada, Mountain Province: A Case Study. Completed in March 2015.

Associate Professor in Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

Ph.D., Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman
M.A., Master of Arts in Social and Development Studies, University of the Philippines Baguio
B.A., Social Sciences (Double Major in Anthropology and Psychology), University of the Philippines College Baguio

Research Interests

Child labor, street children, call center, indigenous corporate property, gender, psychological anthropology , ethnohistory

Extension Services

Resource speaker of the 5-day workshop of the CHED-BARMM Funded project titled, “Capacity Building for Bangsamoro History, Culture, and Tradition (ZamBaSulTa)” , July 26-30, 2021 (through zoom platform)

Speaker, (2019) Cordillera Studies Center Anniversary Lectures (CSC 39th year), June 25, 2019 (Presented paper” Comparative Study of Indigenous Corporate Property Systems Management of Resources of Upland and Lowland Cognitive Descent Groups of Northern Luzon”)

Resource speaker, An Indigenous Studies Program Plan Forum on “Ethnographic Methods: Changes through Time. Sponsored by The Program for Indigenous Cultures in coordination with Cordillera Studies Center and UP Baguio. July 31, 2019

Lecturer and trainer: Don Mariano Marcos State University “Continuing Professional Education” Training for Social Studies Teachers, Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University, through UPB-CSS SSREI, July 2-12, 2019 (national)

Lecturer and Trainer, “Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences and Philosophy” , 2018 UP-CSSP Extramural Training for Social Science Teachers.

Module Writer. GE Course: Self and Society 1, University of the Philippines system (2018)

Lecturer (2018). “Ethnography of a Call Center: Learnings, Realities, Struggles and Compromises”. Paper presented for the celebration of the CSS week, UP Baguio.

Guest Lecturer and Trainer, “Training on Historical and Anthropological Research on Traditional Industries in Pangasinan”. Center for Pangasinan Studies. Capitol Resort Hotel, Lingayen, Pangasinan. September 8-9, 2017.

Publications

Salinas-Ramos, TA (2016). “Doing Critical Psychology in Indigenous Groups: The Case of Africa, New Zealand, and Australia” in Mendoza, L. (ed.) Social Science Teaching, Research and Practice. Conference Papers, Vol. 1, College of Social Sciences and the Cordillera Studies Center.

Canilao, N, Diaz, MA, Florendo, N, Salinas-Ramos, TA. (2015). “Indigenous Psychologies and Critical-emancipatory psychology” in Parker, Ian (ed.).  Handbook of Critical Psychology. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.

Florendo, N, San Luis, MC, Salinas-Ramos, TA. (2011) “Critical Research in Philippine Community Psychology”. Annual Review of Critical Psychology: Critical Psychology in a Changing World: Building Bridges and Expanding the Dialogue.

Prill-Brett, J. and Salinas-Ramos, TA. With Follosco, A. (1998) Tuba Ethnohistory Cordillera Studies Center, UP College Baguio. . (Funding source: Municipal government of Tuba, Benguet).

Researches

Prill-Brett,J. and Salinas-Ramos, TA (2022) “Changes in Indigenous Corporate Property Systems and Management of Resources of Upland and Lowland Cognatic Descent Groups of Northern Luzon”. Funded by the Cordillera Studies Center, UP Baguio

Salinas-Ramos, TA. (2020). Physical to Virtual Departure: the (In)Visibility of OFWs in Call Center Work”.

Salinas-Ramos, TA. (2018). The Tampa/Irikan: An Indigenous Agricultural Agreement. A paper presented in the 1st International Conference on Pangasinan Studies. Lingayen, Pangasinan

Prill-Brett, J. and Salinas-Ramos, TA. (2018). A Comparative Study of Indigenous Corporate Property Systems and Management of Resources of Upland and Lowland Cognatic Descent Groups of Northern Luzon. A research grant from the Cordillera Studies Center, University of the Philippines Baguio.

Salinas-Ramos, TA. (2016). Telepresence as a Tactic for Parenting: Negotiating for Time and Space Among Call Center Agents in Baguio City. Dissertation. University of the Philippines Diliman.

J. Bangcawayan, Diaz, MA , Salinas-Ramos, TA, A Villalon. (2013) Violence Against Indigenous Girls, Adolescents and Youth: The Philippine Experience. A paper submitted to the Tebtebba Foundation.

Salinas-Ramos, TA. (2011) The Exploration of Human Universals in Identity Reconstruction After Loss of a Partner. A paper prepared for the 14th Biennial Conference of the Society for Theoretical Psychology- Doing Psychology Under New Conditions, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology
College of Social Sciences

Academic Background

D.Phil. Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, 2011
M.Phil., University of Oxford, 2008
M.A., University of the Philippines, 2002
B.A., University of the Philippines, 1995

Research Interests

Cordillera, indigenous peoples, tattoos, textiles

Publications

Salvador-Amores, A. (2020). Re-examining Igorot representation: issues of commodification and cultural appropriation. South East Asia Research, 1-17.

De Las, M. L. A. N., & Salvador-Amores, A. (2019). Enigmatic Geometric Tattoos of the Butbut of Kalinga, Philippines. The Mathematical Intelligencer, 41(1), 31-38.

Amores, A. S. (2018). Resignifying “Kinuttiyan'(ikat blanket) in the Philippine Cordillera: translocal connections and ritual use. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 47(1), 77-117.