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VICENTE L. RAFAEL
Department of History
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3560
Tel: (206) 354 2628
vrafael@uw.edu
Education
1984. Ph.D, Cornell University. (History, Southeast Asia; Minor fields: European Intellectual
History; Anthropology)
1982. M.A., Cornell University. Southeast Asian History.
1977. B.A., Ateneo de Manila University. History and Philosophy.
Positions Held
Publications
Books:
2005. The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the
Spanish Philippines, Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. (co-published in Metro Manila:
Anvil Publishing, Inc.).
2000. White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, Durham: Duke University
Press; (co-published in Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.)
2017. “Power, Play and Pedagogy: Reading the Early De la Costa,” in Reading Horacio
de la Costa, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila Univ. Press.
2017. “Telling Times: Nick Joaquin, Storyteller,” Introduction to The Woman Who Had
Two Navels and Other Tales of the Gothic Baroque, stories by Nick Joaquin, New York:
Penguin Classics.
2016c. “Mutant Tongues: English and the Postcolonial Humanities,” CR (The New
Centennial Review), special issue on “Translation and the Global Humanities”, v. 16, no. 1,
2016, 93-114.
2016d. “The Babel of Books: Libraries In and Out of Walls,” CORMOSEA Bulletin,
Summer, v. 34, 21-29. Reprinted in PAARL Research Journal, v. 3, no. 1, 51-56, 2017.
2015b. “The War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English and Tagalog
Slang” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 74, No. 2 (May) 2015: 1–20.
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2014a. “Betraying Empire: Translation and the Ideology of Conquest,” Translation
Studies, 2014, 1-12.
2013. “Contracting Colonialism and the Long 1970s,” Philippine Studies: Historical and
Ethnographic Viewpoints, Volume 61, Number 4, December 2013, pp. 477-494.
2012b. (with Joshua Barker), “The Event of Otherness: An Interview with James T.
Siegel,” in Indonesia (Cornell University), no.93, April, 1-19.
2012c. “Radiant Hope, Dark Despair,” foreword to Susan and Nathan Gilbert Quimpo,
Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years, Metro Manila: Anvil Publlishing.
2012d. “Translation and the U.S. Empire: Counterinsurgency and the Resistance of
Language,” The Translator (UK), v.18, no.1 , 1-22.
2012e. “Translation, American English and the National Insecurities of Empire,” (Reprint
of 2009a), in Lawrence Venuti, ed., The Translation Studies Reader, 3rd edition, New York:
Routledge Press.
2011. “Awake in America: Poetry and the Ghost of Democracy,” in Journal of the
American Studies Association of the Philippines, v.1, no.1, December, 51-58.
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2009b. “La Vida Despues del Imperio: Soberania y Revolucion en las Filipinas
Espanoles,” in Maria Dolores Elizalde Perez-Grueso, ed., Reensar Filipinas: Politica, Identidad
y Religion en la construccion de la nacion Filipina, Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra, 181-206.
2008a. “Translating ‘Kalayaan’ on the Eve of the Filipino Revolution,” in a festschrift for
Prof. Soledad Reyes, Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
2008b. “Reorientations: Notes on the Study of the Philippines in the United States,” in
Philippine Studies, v.56, n.4, 475-492.
2008c. “Foreignness and Vengeance” (reprint of 2003b), in Benita Sampedro and Simon
Doubleday, eds., Border Interrogations: Crossing and Questioning Spanish Frontiers from the
Middle Ages to the Present, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 120-146.
2005a. “The Cell Phone and the Crowd” (reprint of 2003b), in Old Media, New Media: A
History and Theory Reader, edited by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan, New York:
Routledge.
2005b. “The Cell Phone and the Crowd” (reprint of 2003b), in Histories of the Future,
edited by Susan Harding and Daniel Rosenberg, Durham: Duke University Press.
2005c. “The Cell Phone and the Crowd” (reprint of 2003b), in Asia Unplugged: The
Wireless and Mobile Media Boom in the Asia-Pacific, edited by Madanmohan Rao and Lunita
Mendoza, New Delhi: Response Books/Sage Publications, pp.286-318.
2004. “Southeast Asian Studies in the Age of Asian America,” in Anthony Reid, editor,
Southeast Asian Studies for the Twenty first Century, Tempeh: Arizona State University
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2003b. “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in Recent Philippine
History,” Public Culture, v.15, no.3, Fall, 399-425.
1999a. “Regionalism, Area Studies and the Accidents of Agency,” American Historical
Review, October, v. 104, n.4, 1208-1220.
1999b. "Translation and Revenge: Castilian and the Origins of Nationalism in the
Philippines,” in Doris Sommer, ed., The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin
America, Durham: Duke University Press, 214-235.
1998. "Updates: Doubled Histories," in Steve Fagin, editor, Talkin' with Your Mouth
Full: Conversations with the Videos of Steve Fagin, Durham: Duke University Press, 247-53.
1997a. with Itty Abraham, "Introduction," special volume on Southeast Asian Diaspora,
Sojourn: A Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
Singapore), v.12, n.2, October, 1997, 145-52.
1997b. "'Your Grief Is Our Gossip': Overseas Filipinos and Other Spectral Presences," in
Public Culture, v.9, no.2, 267-91.
1995a. "Taglish, or the Phantom Power of the Lingua Franca," in Public Culture, Fall,
v.8, no.1, 101-126.
1995b. "Colonial Domesticity: White Women and United States Rule in the Philippines,"
American Literature, December, v.67, n.4, 639-666.
1994a. "The Cultures of Area Studies in the United States," in Social Text, #41, 91-112.
1994b. "Of Mimicry and Marginality: Comments on Anna Tsing's `Cultural Borders'", in
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Cultural Anthropology , v.9, no.3, 298-301.
1993a. "White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the United States
Colonization of the Philippines" in The Cultures of United States Imperialism, edited by Amy
Kaplan and Donald Pease, Durham: Duke University Press, 185-210.
Revised version in a special issue on "Colonial Ethnographies," History and
Anthropology, v.8 parts 1-4, 265-298.
1990b. "Nationalism, Imagery, and the Filipino Intelligentsia of the Nineteenth Century,"
Critical Inquiry, v.16, n.3, Spring, 591-611.
1990c. "Patronage and Pornography: Ideology and Spectatorship in the Early Marcos
Years," Comparative Studies in Society and History, v.32, n.2, April, 282-304.
Reprinted in Text/Politics in Island Southeast Asia, edited by D.M. Roskies, Athens:
Ohio University Press, 1993, 49-81.
1986a. "God and Grammar: The Politics of Translation in the Spanish Colonization of the
Philippines," in Notebooks in Cultural Analysis, edited by Nathalia King and Norman F. Cantor,
Durham: Duke University Press, 97-130.
1986b. "Salvaging the Past Under the Marcos Regime," Pilipinas, Spring, no.6, 67-73.
1986c. "Fishing, Underwear, and Hunchbacks: Humor and Politics in the Philippines,
1886 and 1983," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, v.18, n.3, 2-8.
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Reprinted in ARCHIPEL, #35 ( Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales,
Paris), 1988, 195-204.
1984. "Language, Authority and Gender in Rizal's Noli", Review of Indonesian and
Malaysian Affairs (RIMA), published by the University of Sydney and the Royal Institute for
Linguistics and Anthropology, The Netherlands), v.18, n.9, Winter, 110-140.
1979. "Pace and Mood of a Philippine Era," Philippine Studies, v.27, 432-438.
Book Reviews.
2012. Review of Rick Baldoz, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in
Filipino America, 1898-1946, in American Historical Review, Feb., 218-219.
2011. Review of Neferti Tadiar, Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience
and the Making of Globalization, Philippine Studies, 59, no.1, 141-151.
1999. Review of Greg Bankoff, Crime, Society and the State in Nineteenth Century
Philippines. In Philippine Studies, First Quarter, v. 42, 129-32.
1999. Review of Glenn May, Inventing a Hero. In American Historical Review, October,
1304-1306.
1993. Review of Benedict J. Kerkvliet and Resil Mojares, eds., From Marcos to Aquino:
Local Perspectives on Political Transition in the Philippines. In Journal of Southeast Asian
Studies , v.24, n.2, 441-443.
1992. Review of Jane Atkinson and Shelley Errington, eds., Power and Difference:
Gender in Island Southeast Asia. In Ethnohistory, v. 39, n.4, 554-555.
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1991. Review of Renato Rosaldo, Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis.
In Contemporary Pacific, v.3, n.2, 469-72.
1989. Review of Rene Javellana, ed., Casaysayan nang Pasion mahal ni Jesucristong
Panginoon Natin na Sucat Ipagalab nang Puso Nang Sinumang Babasa. In Journal of Southeast
East Asian Studies, v. 20, no.2, 303-304.
1988. Review of The February Revolution and Other Reflections, Miguel Bernad;
Onward Christian Soldiers! Protestants in the Philippine Revolution, Richard L. Shwenk;
Philippine Revolution 1986: Model of Nonviolent Change, Douglas J. Elwood. In Journal of
Asian Studies, v.47, n.2, 411-413.
1987. Review of Cesar Adib Majul, The Contemporary Muslim Movement in the
Philippines. In Journal of Church and State, 545-47.
1986. Review of Alfred McCoy and Ed. J. De Jesus, eds., Philippine Social History:
Global Trade and Local Transformations. In Journal of Asian Studies, v.45, n.3, 655-68.
Journalism:
2017, “Lola’s Resistant Dignity: Reading “My Family’s Slave” in the Context of
Philippine History,” The Atlantic, May 31,
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/lola-
unconquered/527964/?utm_source=fbb
2017. “We’re Still Talking about “My Family’s Slave,” Code Switch, National Public
Radio, http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=528810319%3A529784507
2017. “My Family’s Slave: A UW Professor Weighs In,” Crosscut, May 18, 2017,
crosscut.com/2017/05/my-familys-slave-can-alex-tizon-be-forgiven-for-his-sins
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2017. “DeLima’s Arrest: Justice as Revenge,” in Rappler, Feb. 26,
http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/162573-leila-de-lima-arrest-justice-as-revenge-duterte-
supporters
2016. “Comparing Extra-Judicial Killings in the Philippines and the US,” Rappler, July
17, http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/139862-comparing-extrajudicial-killings-
philippines-united-states
2016. “Comparing Digong with P-Noy;” Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 28,
http://opinion.inquirer.net/94944/contrasting-digong-with-p-noy#art_disc
2016. “What was EDSA?” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Feb. 25, 2016,
http://opinion.inquirer.net/93174/what-was-edsa
2015. “The Dream of Benevolent Dictatorship,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Nov. 15,
2015, http://opinion.inquirer.net/90424/the-dream-of-benevolent-dictatorship
2015. “Finding No Respite from the Traffic Jams and Crowds,” Rappler, Aug. 7, 2015
http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/101783-traffic-crowds-metro-manila
2015. “How Revolutionary was the Revolution?” Rappler, May 28. 2015,
http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/94548-how-revolutionary-philippine-revolution
2015. “Filipino, the Language Which is Not One,” Rappler, Aug. 21, 2015,
http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/103304-filipino-language-not-one
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2015. “Ama ng Bayan” and the Crisis of Infantile Citizenship,” Philippine Daily Inquirer,
Feb. 12, 2015, http://opinion.inquirer.net/82507/ama-ng-bayan-and-the-crisis-of-infantile-
citizenship
2015. “The Irony of Free Speech,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Jan. 12, 2015,
http://opinion.inquirer.net/81639/the-irony-of-free-speech
2014. “Bonifacio for Today,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec. 31, 2014,
http://opinion.inquirer.net/81358/bonifacio-for-the-present
2014. “Manang Letty’s Farm,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sept. 12, 2014,
http://opinion.inquirer.net/78360/manang-lettys-farm
2014. “Photography on Mother’s Day,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 15, 2014,
http://opinion.inquirer.net/74508/photography-on-mothers-day
2014. “Servants, or the Secret of Middle Class Life,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 5,
http://opinion.inquirer.net/73278/servants-or-the-secret-of-middle-class-life
2013: “Trayvon Martin and Edward Snowden,” History News Network (George Mason
University), http://hnn.us/articles/trayvon-martin-and-edward-snowden and the Philippine Daily
Inquirer, http://opinion.inquirer.net/57455/intersecting-lives-martin-and-snowden
2012, “The Pastoral and the Liberal: Reflections on the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill,”
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Dec. 17, A17. http://opinion.inquirer.net/42909/the-pastoral-and-the-
liberal-reflections-on-the-rh-bill
1991b. "U.S. Bases a Flashpoint in the Struggle to Control the Philippines," (op-ed
piece), San Diego Union, September 19.
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2017. Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas para sa Kritisimo sa Ingles (Balagtas Award for
Criticism in English), UMPIL (Union of Writers in the Philippines).
2017. Visiting Professor, Nida School of Translation Studies, Misano Adriatico, Italy.
2014. Visiting Professor, De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University, Manila,
Philippines.
2013. Visiting Faculty, Nida School of Translation Studies, Misano Adriatico, Italy.
2011. Distinguished Professor, Nida School of Translation Studies, Misano Adriatico, Italy.
2007. Grant Goodman Prize, Philippine Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies (This is a
lifetime achievement award in Philippine Studies).
2006. Invited to be a Resident Fellow, Center for the Study of Advanced Behavioral
Sciences, Stanford.
2003. Fellowship, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto Univ., Japan. (declined).
2000. Winner, National Book Award for History, Manila Critics’ Circle, Philippines (for
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History).
1998. The Andrews Visiting Chair in Asian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
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1997. Residential Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy.
1997. Visiting Research Fellowship, Humanities Research Institute, Univ. of California, Irvine.
1994. Visiting Fellow. Program for Cultural Studies, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1989. National Book Award for History, Manila Critics' Circle, Manila, Philippines (for
Contracting Colonialism.)
1988. Grantee, USIA Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs Exchange Program.
1984. Lauriston Sharp Prize for Outstanding Dissertation, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell
University.
1982-83. Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Social Science Research Council/Ford Foundation and
ACLS.
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1981. Western Societies Program Summer Research Fellowship, Cornell University.
2017. “The Translative Power of English in the U.S. and Southeast Asia,” Nida Institute
of Translation Studies, Misano Adriatico, Italy
2017. “Revolution, Religion and Radio: A Filipino Jesuit in the American Colonial
Philippines,” invited talk, Dept. of History and Asian Studies Center, Univ. of Notre Dame
2016. “Notes on the History of Elections in the Philippines,” forum on Election Fever:
Global and Historical Perspectives from 2016, Dept. of History, Univ. of Washington.
2016: “Mutant Tongues: Englishes and the Postcolonial Humanities in Singapore, the
Philippines, Thailand and the United States,” invited lecture at: Kyoto Univ., Southeast Asian
Studies Center; GRIPS, Tokyo; as a keynote address at 7th Asian Translation Traditions
Conference, 26th-29th September 2016 at Monash University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; invited
talk at Rutgers University, Comparative Literature Dept.; invited paper, Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok, Thailand.
2016. “Telling Times: Nick Joaquin, Storyteller,” at the English Dept., De La Salle Univ.,
Manila, Sept. 22.
2016. “Translating Digong,” roundtable at the Univ. of the Philippines Mindanao, Davao
City, Sept. 18.
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2015. “Motherless Tongues: The Aporia of Translation,” invited paper at the Asia
Theories International Symposium, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, TAIWAN;
invited speaker, Center for Asian Studies and Dept. of Linguistics, University of South Carolina;
invited paper, Kritika Kultura symposium, Ateneo de Manila University.
2015. “How Revolutionary was the Philippine Revolution,” invited paper, Kritika
Kultura symposium, Ateneo de Manila University.
2015. “Translation and War,” invited paper at the conference on “Translation and
Interpreting,” Institute Superieur des Sciences Humanities de Tunis, Tunisia.
2014. “The Humanities and the Politics of Language: Some Examples from Singapore,
the Philippines and the United States,” as invited speaker, Nanyang Technical University, School
of Humanities; invited speaker at a forum for Kritika Kultura, Ateneo de Manila University.
2014. “American English, Colonial Education and the Insurgency of Language,” invited
paper at a Conference on Translation and the Global Humanities, Univ. of Louisville.
2014. “Colonial Contractions: The Making of Las Islas Filipinas, 1565-1898,” at the
conference “Transpacific Engagements: Visual Culture and Global Exchange, 1768-1869” at the
Ayala Museum, Metro Manila, Philippines, sponsored by the Getty Museum, Los Angeles and
the Kuntshistorisches Insitut, Florenz.
2013. “Amidst Three Empires: The Philippines Under Spain, United States and Japan,
1565-1946,” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, Oct. 23, 2013.
2012-14. “The War of Translation: Colonial Education, American English and Tagalog
Slang, 1920s-1970s,” at the Ateneo de Manila University; at the University of Michigan; at De
La Salle University, as an invited speaker; at the Nida Institute of Translation Studies, Misano,
Italy, May 2013; as an invited speaker, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; at the Southeast Asian
Studies Center, Univ. of California, Berkeley.
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Counterinsurgency, New York University; Ateneo de Manila University, keynote at Translation
and Globalization conference; at conference on translation, Doha, Qatar; invited paper Williams
College; invited paper, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene.
2006. “Translating Freedom on the Eve of the Philippine Revolution,” given as an invited
talk at: the Simpson Humanities Center, Univ. of Washington; and at the Ateneo de Manila
University, Manila; The Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley; the
International Cultural Studies Program, Univ. of Hawai’i at Manoa.
2006. “The Philippines under Spanish Colonial Rule,” as invited paper for a conference
at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
2006. “The Risks of Translation: Christianity, Theater and the Origins of Nationalism in
the Spanish Philippines,” at a conference, “Religion and Postcolonial Criticism,” Princeton
University; and at the conference, “Comparative Literature in the World Today,” Columbia
University.
2005. “Awake in America: Notes on the Specter of Democracy,” as invited paper at the
American Studies Association of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas, Manila.
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2005. “Translation and the Formation of the Filipino Nation,” invited paper at a
conference on “The Philippines and Japan Under the US Shadow,” sponsored by the Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo University, Japan.
2004-2005. “Castilian, or the Colonial Uncanny: Translation and Vernacular Plays in the
19th century Philippines,” as a featured speaker at the University of Milan, Bicoca, Dept. of
Anthropology and Ethnology; as the keynote address in the conference “Translation and the
Production of Knowledge in Southeast Asia,” Cornell University Southeast Asian Studies
Program; as a featured paper in the lecture series “Critical Knowledge After Neo-Liberalism,” at
the Center for History, Society and Culture, Univ. of California, Davis; at the International
Conference on Philippine Studies, University of Leiden, the Netherlands; at a colloquium on
“Language and Power,” Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Washington; as an invited speaker at
the Third World Studies Program, Univ. of the Philippines; at a conference on “Language
Communities or Cultural Empires? The Impact of European Languages in the Former Colonial
Territories,” Univ. of California, Berkeley
2004-2005. “Conspiracy and Secrecy in the Revolution of 1896,” as the featured paper in
the lecture series “Signs of Crisis” sponsored by the Asia Center and the Peabody Museum,
Harvard University; at a conference “Words in Motion” sponsored by the Social Science
Research Council, in Fes, Morocco.
2001-02: “Generation Text: The Cell Phone and the Crowd in Recent Philippine
History,” at a conference on “White Mythology: Universality and Postcolonial Particularities,”
the University at Buffalo; as an invited speaker for the Cultural Studies Program, George Mason
University; at a conference, “Practicing Catholicism,” Holy Cross College; at the
Asian/Pacific/American research cluster group, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; at the Ateneo de
Manila University, Philippines; and as the Somers Lecture, Georgia State University, 2003.
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Scholarship in Asian Studies at UC Berkeley.
1998-99. “The Undead: Photography, Imperialism and the U.S. Colonization of the
Philippines, 1899-1920s”, at Stanford University; Columbia Universtiy; University of Hawai’i at
Manoa; University of Wisconsin-Madison; at conferences on 1898 held at University of Iowa;
Dartmouth College; Princeton University; and at a conference on the Treaty of Paris, London
School of Economics; at the Center for Latin American Studies, Univ. Of Michigan; Southeast
Asia Program, Cornell University; New York University.
1996. "Overseas Filipinos and other Spectral Presences in the Nation-State," at the
Sawyer Seminar, Univ. of Michigan, International Institute; at the Institute for the Global Study
of Culture, Power and History, Johns Hopkins University; at a Conference on Cultural
Studies/Asian Studies, McGill University, Montreal; and the Annual Conference of the
Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu.
1995. "Mimetic Subjects: Engendring Race at the Edge of Empire," at the Univ. of
California, Berkeley; and the Latin American Studies Program, Yale University.
1994. "Diaspora and Asian Studies in the United States," at a Roundtable on Asian
Diaspora, Association for Asian Studies, Boston.
1994. "Colonial Articulations: Mexico and the Philippines, 1521-1821," at the Mexican
Museum, San Francisco.
1994. "Taglish, or the Phantom Lingua Franca in the Contemporary Philippines," at the
Asian/Anthropology Dept. Series, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; at the Southeast Asia
Program, Cornell University; at the Dept. of Anthropology, Univ. of Washington, Seattle; at the
Dept. of Filipino Literature, Ateneo de Manila Univ.
1993-94. "The Cultures of Area Studies in the United States", in a Conference, "Beyond
Orientalism", UC Santa Cruz; at a conference, "Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific", East-
West Center, Program for Cultural Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii; at the Center for South and
Southeast Asian Studies, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; at the Center for Cultural Studies, Univ.
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of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana.
1993-94. "Mimesis and Domesticity: White Women and United States Rule in the
Philippines," Association for Asian Studies, National Conference, Boston, MA; at the
Departments of Anthropology of the following: London School of Economics and Political
Science; University of Washington, Seattle; University of California, Santa Cruz and San Diego;
Humanities Research Institute, UC Irvine; at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell.
1992-93. "White Love: Discipline, Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S.
Colonization of the Philippines" at the following conferences: "Colonial Ethnographies", at
Center for Asian Studies at Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam; "The Cultures of US
Imperialism", Dartmouth College; "Global Economies, Local Ethnicities," at Stanford
University; at faculty colloquia at the following: Yale University; University of Pennsylvania;
University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of Michigan; Ateneo de Manila University;
University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine; Pitzer College; and at the
National Meeting, Society for Cultural Anthropology, Austin Texas, 1992.
1991. "Endangered Languages: The Problems and Perils of Southeast Asian Language
Instruction in the U.S.," (Discussant), national convention, Association for Asian Studies, New
Orleans.
1990. "Collaboration and Rumor in the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines," at the
University of Washington, Seattle; at the History and Anthropology Workshop, University of
Pennsylvania; and at a conference, "Japan and the World", Univ. of California, San Diego.
1989. "Death and the Ideology of Submission in Early Tagalog Colonial Society," at a
conference, "Southeast Asia in the 15th to the 18th Century", Lisbon, Portugal. Sponsored by the
Social Science Research Council.
1985. "Tomas Pinpin and the Shock of Castilian", at the National Conference,
Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia.
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1984. "Contracting Christianity in Early Tagalog Colonial Society," at the Southeast Asia
Summer Institute, University of Michigan.
Teaching
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Hist 655: Colonialism and its Discontents.
Hist 650: Seminar on Island Southeast Asia.
2012. Member, George M. Kahin Prize Committee, Association for Asian Studies.
2011-present. Member, Advisory Board, Tusaaji: A Translation Review, journal of the Research
Group in Translation and Transcultural Contact at Glendon College, York University.
2009-Present. Members, editorial board, Southeast Asian Research (published by the School of
Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
2005 –present. Series editor, “Empire, Nation, Diaspora,” for Ateneo de Manila University Press,
Manila, Philippines.
2004-Present, Member, editorial board, Philippine Studies (published by the Ateneo de Manila
Univ. Press)
2003-2009. Member, Advisory Board, Project for Critical Asian Studies, UW.
2003-Present, co-editor of the series “Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies” published
by the Univ. of Washington Press.
1995-1998. Member, Harry Benda Prize Committee, Association for Asian Studies.
1992-1996. Member, Joint Committee on Southeast Asia, Social Science Research Council.
1993. Co-Chair, Translation Committee, Southeast Asia, Association for Asian Studies.
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2017. Member, Sawyer Seminar Selection Committee (funded by the Mellon Foundation) on
“Racial Capitalism”.
2016. Member, “Troubling Translations” Research Cluster, Simpson Humanities Center, UW.
2015. Member, Search Committee for Chair of American Ethnic Studies, UW.
2014. Chair, Committee to recruit Clara Altman (joint appointee with Law, Society and Justice
Program, UW)
2014. Organizer, “Empire is in the Heart: A Conference on Carlos Bulosan,” sponsored by the
Bridges Labor Center, the Dept. of History, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Univ. of
Washington, Nov. 14, 2014.
2008. Chair, search committee for assistant professor position in the field US in the World
(aborted).
2008. Organized visit and talk by Prof. George Lipsitz, UC Santa Barbara at the Simpson
Humanities Center.
2007. Organized visit and talk by Sheila Coronel, Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
(co-sponsored by the Communication Dept., Southest Asian Studies Center, the Institute of
Transnational Studies, and the Simpson Center).
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2006: Organized two talks: one by Michael Hardt, Professor of Comparative Literature and
Social Theory, Duke University (co-sponsored by the Simpson Center); another by Walden
Bello, Professor of Political Science, Univ. of the Philippines (co-sponsored by the Bridges
Labor Center).
2005 to present: Faculty Affiliate, Center for Multicultural Education, College of Education,
Univ. of Washington.
2005-06. Co-organizer, Roundtable on “The Work of Area Studies in the Age of Pre-emptive
War,” sponsored by the Critical Asian Studies Project and the Simpson Center.
2004-2007. Member, Standing Faculty Committee, Harry Bridges Labor Center, University of
Washington.
2004. Organized the conference, “Laboring for Justice: The KDP (Union of Democratic
Filipinos) in Seattle,” sponsored by the Bridges Labor Center and the Southeast Asian Studies
Center, UW, Feb. 2004.
2003. Organized the conference, “Colonialism, Nationalism and Globalization: The Philippine
Case”, sponsored by the Southeast Asian Studies Center, the Jackson School, the History
Department and the American Ethnic Studies Dept.
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Brief bio:
Vicente L. Rafael is the Giovanni and Anne Costigan Professor of History and Southeast Asian
Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. He received his BA from Ateneo de Manila
University and his MA and PhD from Cornell University.
Rafael is the author of several books and articles on the history and cultural politics of the
Philippines, including “Contracting Colonialism,” “White Love and Other Events in Filipino
Histories,” “The Promise of the Foreign,” and most recently, “Motherless Tongues: The
Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation,” all published by Duke University Press in
the US and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.
He has also written the Introduction to a collection of Nick Joaquin's stories, "The Woman Who
Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic" recently published by Penguin Classics. He is
a regular contributor to various newspapers and journals, including Rappler, The Philippine
Daily Inquirer, Dissent, and Social Text and Public Culture.
Rafael has received a number of awards from various institutions, including the Mellon
Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Science Research Council
(New York), and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has received several
fellowships from various universities including Princeton, Stanford, University of Michigan,
University of California-Irvine, University of Washington, the Nida Institute of Translation
Studies (Italy), East-West Center in the University of Hawaii, Kyoto University, the University
of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila and De La Salle, among other places. He continues to do
research on the Philippines and Southeast Asia, as well as the US.
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