Topical Interests

POLITICAL/PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY: Cultural Minorities and the State; Politics of Identity; Anthropology and Colonialism; Indigenous Leadership and Customary Law; Political Organization; Anthropology in Counter-Insurgency and Warfare; Cultural Issues in Development and Humanitarianism; Environment and Ecology in (Southeast) Asia

AREA STUDIES: Southeast Asia; upland/tribal peoples in post-colonial contexts

ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION: Indigenous Religions; Conversion and Colonialism; Religion in Social Movements; Fundamentalisms; Radicalism and Violence; Anthropology of Christianity

METHOD AND THEORY: Fundamentals of Social Organization; Ethnohistory, Oral Traditions, and Archival Research; Decolonizing Methodologies; Modeling Interdisciplinary/Cross-Cultural Inquiry; Ethnographic Methods and Field Survival

 

Experience

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, Department of Southeast Asian Studies (2011 to present) [*core/required modules]

·         Graduate Level: Approaches to the Study of Southeast Asia (SE5151); Anthropological Approaches to Southeast Asia (SE5229); Politics of Environment (SE5294)•    Graduate Level: Approaches to the Study of Southeast Asia (SE5151*); Anthropological Approaches to Southeast Asia (SE5229); Politics of Environment (SE5294)

 

·         Undergraduate Level:  GEK1045 (Introduction to World Religions); Southeast Asia: A Changing Region (SE1101E, co-taught with Prof Irving Johnson, plus 5 tutors); Moro Peoples of the Philippines (SE2226); Country Studies: Island Southeast Asia (SE3219); Majorities and Minorities (SE4218); Special Topics Seminar in Indigenous Jurisprudence (SE4220); Research in Southeast Asian Religions (SE4226)

·         Notable Guest Lectures: “Upland minorities in Philippine national history” (1 hour, for HY5210 - Approaches to Modern Southeast Asian History taught by Barbara Watson Andaya, 2011); “Uplanders as a population category in Southeast Asia” (2 1/2 hours, for SE5151 taught by Prof. Chie Ikeya, 2011); Philippines  “Boot Camp” (2-hour country briefing for student service expedition), Builders Connect Programme, University Scholars Programme, May-June 2012, and May-June 2013; “Crash Course in Tagalog/Pilipino” (2-hour  lesson), for Southeast Asia Week, Southeast Asian Studies Student Society, 2012)

 

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA, Dept. of Anthropology and Dept. of Religious Studies (2009)

·         Graduate Level: Special Topics Seminar in Political and Legal Anthropology (ANTH 4003)

·         Undergraduate Level: Indigenous Religions (RS2100/ANTH 2100, plus 2 teaching assistants)

·         Guest Lecture: “Christianity in the Philippines”(2 hours, for Anthropology of Religion taught by Prof. Louanna Furbee, 2003)

 

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Department of Anthropology, 1995-1996

·         Graduate Teaching Assistant for Peoples of Southeast Asia, an upper-division undergraduate course taught by Prof. James Eder.

·         Graduate Teaching Assistant for Comparative Religion, introductory-level undergradate course taught by Prof. Lyle Steadman.

·         Guest Lectures: “Spanish Colonialism in the Philippines” (1998) and “Ethnic Groups of Mindanao” (1995) for Peoples of Southeast Asia course

 

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I AT MANOA, Department of Ethnic Studies (1994)

·         Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Social Movements, an upper-division seminar taught by Prof. Dean Alegado

·         Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Ethnic Studies, an introductory lecture course taught by Prof. Dean Alegado