University of Hawai’i at Manoa
FEDERICO V. MAGDALENA, Ph.D.
Assistant Specialist, UHM Center for Philippine Studies
Affiliate Faculty/Lecturer, UHM Institute for Peace & Department of Sociology
Tel: (808) 956-6086
Fax: (808) 956-2682
Email: fm@hawaii.eduFederico V. Magdalena is with the Center for Philippine Studies as Faculty Specialist and concurrently serves as Affiliate Faculty/Lecturer at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa (UHM) Department of Sociology and Institute for Peace. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at Chaminade University of Honolulu.
He received his academic training in Sociology (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Hawai'i-Manoa; MA Sociology, University of the Philippines) and was trained in community development for his undergraduate degree (BS Comm. Dev., Mindanao State University, Cum Laude). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at George Washington University, Alumni-in-Residence Fellow at the East-West Center, and Research Fellow at Singapore’s Institute for Southeast Asian Studies. He has taught in the Philippines for many years. He also served as Lecturer/Adjunct Faculty in the sociology/anthropology graduate programs of the University of the Philippines in Diliman and Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines, and as Visiting Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Among the courses he has taught are: Islam in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, Mindanao, Philippine Studies, and “standard” sociology courses (race and ethnicity, social conflict/peace studies, social theory, research methods, social statistics, etc.).
He has received research grants from and worked as consultant to various organizations, such as the World Bank (planning for child health), Asian Development Bank (irrigation), UNICEF (children and mothers’ care), Toyota Foundation (Islamic schools in Mindanao, Ethnohistory of Muslim Mindanao), Sumitomo Foundation (Japanese in Davao, Philippines), and national agencies (NIA, DSWD, NSTA, DOH) in the Philippines, among others.
He has lectured on topics about Mindanao, Islam and ethnicity in the Philippines. Recently, he participated in a roundtable discussion on the Filipino Diaspora during the 3rd Global Filipino Networking Convention in Cebu, Philippines on Jan. 20-22, 2005. In November 2003, he gave a lecture at the University of Hawai'i on “Islam and the Politics of Identity: Lessons from the Philippines and Southeast Asia.” He had lectured on a similar topic at California State University, Dominguez Hills (October 2003). He also read papers in various international conferences in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Italy and Yugoslavia, among others.
His interests include web designing and HTML programming. He is the website administrator of the UHM Center for Philippine Studies.
Among his recent publications are: The Battle of Bayang and Other Essays on Moroland (Mindanao State University, 2002); Survey of Indigenous People’s Access to and Utilization of Early Childhood Services in Region XII-B, Mindanao. (Manila: World Bank and Dept. of Social Welfare and Development, 2001); “The Chinese in Moroland,” Mindanao Journal, 24 (MSU, 2001); “Linking the Moro Struggle and the Philippine Revolution,” Dansalan Quarterly, (Dansalan College, 2001): 48-53; Islamic Education in the Philippines: Trends, Patterns and Prospects (MSU, 2000); “Philippine Politics and the Moro Question,” CSSH Graduate Research Journal, (MSU, 1999, from a paper presented to the international conference on “State of Philippine Studies,” James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, July 8-11, 1998); The Peace Process in Mindanao: Problems and Prospects," Southeast Asian Affairs 1997 (Singapore: ISEAS, 1997); “Population Growth and Changing Ecosystems in Mindanao,” Sojourn, Vol. 11 (Singapore: ISEAS, 1996); "Moros and Americans in the Philippines," Philippine Studies 43 (Ateneo, 1996); Ethnicity, Identity and Conflict: The Case of the Philippine Moros (Singapore: ISEAS, 1995); Introduction to Computer Applications (MSU, 1994); "Lake Lanao Operations, Moro Province, The Philippines," “Moro Cotta,” “Robert Bullard,” and “Battle of Bayang” in The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions, edited by Benjamin R. Beede (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994); and "Colonization and the Moro-Indio Conflict in Mindanao, Philippines," Studies in Third World Societies, Vol. 48 (College of William & Mary, Virginia, USA,1992).
He is now completing a paper on “Moros and the Philippine State: The Incorporation of Mindanao into the Philippines” for the Occasional Paper Series (forthcoming) of the UHM Center for Philippine Studies. He can be reached at the Center for Philippine Studies, Moore Hall 415, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, 1890 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, or by sending him an email at this address: fm@hawaii.edu
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