Visiting Research Associates Program
The IPC Visiting Research Associates (VRA) Program encourages and facilitates studies of Philippine cultures and societies by scholars (from the Philippines or abroad) who are not regular members of the IPC staff. The IPC welcomes VRAs who wish to do research in any discipline of the social sciences or humanities. Thus, it assists scholars whose major interests are anthropology, art, communication, economics, history, linguistics, music, political science, psychology, and sociology.
VRA appointments are generally granted to postdoctoral fellows, doctoral candidates, and other experienced scholars from the Philippines or abroad. Through the IPC, a non-Filipino scholar residing in a country other than the Philippines can apply for a special non-immigrant visa as defined in Section 47 (a)(2) of the Philippine Immigration Act of 1940. While being a VRA offers a formal link with the Institute, the affiliation does not include any salary or stipend; neither does it signify employment with the IPC.
The IPC VRA Lecture Series provides a venue for the VRAs to present the nature and findings of their research as well as their initial conclusions to an interested public.
To know more about the VRA Application Procedure, please click here.
| VRA No. | Name of VRA | Title of Project | Institution and Country | Affiliation Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 460 | Andrea Bobadilla | Examining the Socio-Economic and Gendered Structure of Canada’s Caregiver Program: A Qualitative Study of Filipino Women’s Health Experiences | Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, USA | 2017 |
| 459 | Philip Jan Cerepak | Social Attitudes toward the Urban Poor | Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA | 2017 to 2018 |
| 458 | Jorge Bayona | Inherited Destinies and phantom limbs: Empire, settler colonialism, and trauma in the Philippines and Peru, 1896-1928 | Department of History, University of Washington, USA | 2017 to 2018 |
| 457 | Allison Wells | Romantic and sexual relationships between American men and Filipinas during the period of American colonialism | University of Iowa, USA | 2017 |
| 456 | Amalia Ramirez Garayzar | Technical and Aesthetic Similarities Between Indigenous Textiles from Mexico and the Philippine Islands: Towards the Recognition of a Kinship | Universidad Intercultural Indegena de Michoacan, Mexico | 2017 |
| 455 | Shinji Miyagawa | Social Attitudes toward the Urban Poor | Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan | 2017 |
| 454 | Joy Sales | Creating a Transnational Anti-Martial Law Movement in the 1970s and 80s. | Northwestern University, USA | 2017 |
| 452 | Aslihan Saygili | States versus Stateless Nations: The Politics of Self-Determination in Emerging Democracies | Department of Political Science, Columbia University, USA | 2016 |
| 451 | Matthew Nicdao | Corporeal Technē of Empire in the Literary and Visual Cultures of 19th Century Spanish Colonial Philippines | New York University, USA | 2016 |
| 450 | Thomas Paul Gibson | Indigenous Rights and Religious Nationalism in the Philippines: Lessons for the ASEAN Economic Community | Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, USA | 2016 |
| 449 | Alyssa Paredes | Altering Asia’s Banana Republic? The Making of an “Alternative” Commodity Chain along the Pacific Rim | Yale University, USA | 2016 to 2018 |
| 448 | Marivic Lesho | Language Attitudes and Sociophonetic Variation in Philippine English and Filipino | Universitaet Bremen, Germany | 2016 |
| 447 | Stephanie T. Fajardo | GI-Filipina Relations and the Management of Intimacy in the Postwar Philippines | History Department, University of Michigan, USA | 2016 to 2017 |
| 446 | Atsuko Hayama | Capital Seizure in the Philippine Uplands from the Viewpoint of Lumber Distribution | Faculty of Economics, Kurume University, Japan | 2016 to 2017 |
| 445 | Carlos Isabel Gala | Education in the Press: 19th Century Philippine Newspaper Reporting on the Primary School System | Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain | 2016 |
| 444 | Bu Fan | Sustainability and Community Participation: The Dilemma of Eco-friendly Development Pattern of Palawan, Philippines | Peking University, China | 2015 |
| 443 | Mark Sanchez | Recapturing a Lost Democracy: Philippine Exile Politics and Opposition to Ferdinand Marcos, 1972-1986 | Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA | 2015 to 2016 |
| 442 | Karen Hansen | Reconfiguring the Self in the Shadow of Empire: Local Experiences of Lifestyle Migration on an island in the Philippines | Australian National University, Australia | 2016 to 2017 |
| 441 | Morgan Mouton | Powering up Urban Change | LATTS - Université Paris-Est, France | 2015 |
| 440 | Michael A. Rubin | Accountability in Rebel Regimes | Columbia University, USA | 2015 |
| 439 | Caroline Compton | “Scale and the Epistemology of Rights and Property in Post Disaster and Climate Adaptive Relocation | College of Law, Australian National University | 2015 to 2016 |
| 438 | Nicole Elizabeth del Rosario CuUnjieng | Pan-Asianism and the Philippine Revolution | Southeast Asian and International History, Yale University, USA | 2015 |
| 437 | Earl Perez Foust | Novel Beliefs: Politics of Belonging in the Philippine Rizalista Movement | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA | 2015 |
| 436 | Hiroyuki Yamamoto | The Contribution of Local Knowledge to Disaster Risk Management in the Philippines | Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan | 2015 to 2016 |
| 435 | Adele Webb | The colonial construction of Philippines’ democracy and its legacy in middle class imaginings of political freedom | University of Sydney, Australia | 2015 |