ACADEMIC Preparation Ph.D. in Anthropology University of the Philippines DilimanJune 2007-June 2019Dissertation Project: The Everyday Political Economy of Gutom: Food Insecurity among Older Adults in an Informal Settlement in Manila Watch here my graduation for PhD in Anthropology. M.A. in Education major in Social SciencesPalawan State UniversityApril 2005- March 2007Master thesis title: Political Action Repertoire of... Continue Reading →

Brown University Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies Global Fellow Philippines Studies Group (International Advisory Board) Philippine Social Weather Stations (Fellow) Just Futures Collaborative (Steering Committee Member) MAXQDA Trainers Network  Association for Asian Studies (AAS) American Anthropological Association (AAA) Society of Medical Anthropology Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao, Inc (UGAT) Philippines Sociological Society UPFA Author’s Guild

AAS-SEAC Rising Voices of Southeast Asia (2018)Association for Asian Studies LDC Grant (2017)Philippine Studies Group Graduate Student Paper Travel Award (March 2016)Philippine Commission for Higher Education International Travel Award (March 2016)Brown International Advanced Research Institute Scholarship (June 2014)UP University Scholar (Merit-based)/ March 2010UP College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Scholar (Merit-based) Award/ October 2008PSU Academic... Continue Reading →

I had a fantastic time in Singapore attending the Humanitarian Futures Forum hosted by RSIS | S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in collaboration with the Singapore Ministry of Defense and the Changi Regional HADR Coordination Centre (RHCC). Very honored to be invited to participate in this multi-stakeholder dialogue as a panel reactor. So many... Continue Reading →

  Disaster Archipelago: 
Locating Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines 
Lexington Books (2019)
Editor and Contributor Images of the devastation wreaked by typhoons, flooding, earthquakes and drought in the Philippines circulate globally as an important part of disaster discourses. This collection seeks to move beyond these simplistic representations of calamity by bringing together a group of Filipino... Continue Reading →

Understanding Culture, Society and Politics DIWA Publishing (2015) Globalization has allowed for an increase in human interaction across borders which do not only entail the overlapping of cultural norms but also the exchange of values and traditions. Cross-cultural miscues are often the result of these exchanges. This book equips its reader with conceptual tools honed... Continue Reading →

Discipline and Ideas in the Social Sciences DIWA Publishing (2016)    Human society and the landscapes where we create our intersections have been in constant change due to the various contexts that shape our activities. The Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences is your comprehensive guide in the pursuit of making sense of this constant... Continue Reading →

Chapter in Halo-Halo Ecologies The “Undocumented” Foodscape: Food (In)security, Disaster, and the shifting ecologies in an urban informal settlement in Manila. Maria Carinnes Alejandria, PhD The concept of foodscape has been used to define the social systems that determine the processes of creating and accessing foods.  Key to this frame is an exploration of the... Continue Reading →