PhD in Indigenous Studies-UP Baguio

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𝗨𝗣 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗦: 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽!

The UP Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) invites graduate-offering units to integrate their long-term research, creative work, and innovation programs into the Collective Mentorship Program (CMP) ecosystem.

𝐒𝐈𝐊𝐇𝐀𝐘-𝐁𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐍: 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Inspired by José Rizal’s 1889 vision and the solidarity of the Young Women of Malolos, the CMP bridges individual empowerment with collective intellectual action. By fostering communities of researchers and artists who learn in unity, we translate shared effort into the national transformation and social progress envisioned by Rizal.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧? Foster academic freedom through capability building and elevate your unit's reach by expanding institutional collaborations, widening graduate co-mentorship networks, and deepening community co-creation for maximum public service impact.

Join us in building a future-ready research, creative work, and innovation ecosystem designed for meaningful collaboration with community, alumni, industry, government, and international partners.

𝐎𝐕𝐏𝐑𝐈 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: July 10, 2026 (Check your respective colleges for early internal deadlines)

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲: Inquire with your Constituent University’s Graduate Units or Research Office (OVCRE/D) today!

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APPLY TO JOIN the next cohort of Ph.D in for the 1st Semester, AY 2026-2027. The application requirements can be accessed thru gpo.upb.edu.ph/forms-fees

For inquiries, please email [email protected].
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The Indigenous Studies Program announces the oral defense of Mr. Angelo H. Galarde for his dissertation "Religious Conversion in Native Schemata and Assertions of Indigeneity in Baguio-Benguet, 1965-2005" on May 26, 2026, 2:00 PM at the College of Social Sciences Audio Visual Room.

PhD in Indigenous Studies-UP Baguio
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The Indigenous Studies Program is now accepting applicants for the 1st Semester, AY 2026-2027!

The deadline of application is on July 3, 2026. Forms can be downloaded here: gpo.upb.edu.ph/forms-fees

For inquiries, please contact us via our email address: [email protected]

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Join the next cohort of our Ph.D Indigenous Studies program, https://css.upb.edu.ph/graduate-programs/phd-indigenous-studies/

APPLICATIONS due June 30, 2025.

Congratulations Dr. JUAN EMMANUEL FERNANDEZ for winning Cornell's 2024 Sharp Prize History. Dr. Fernandez is Senior Lecturer of the Ph.D Indigenous Studies Program, and full-time Faculty of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. https://history.wisc.edu/people/fernandez-juan/

We are delighted to award the 2024 Sharp Prize to Juan Fernandez’s Becoming Anthropologists/Becoming Natives: S*x, Gender, and the Ethnographic Encounter in the American Colonial Philippines. Becoming Anthropologists/Becoming Natives is a brilliant, lucid dissertation that illuminates how the performance of gender and ideas of masculinity were crucial in colonial ethnographic encounters in early twentieth century Philippine highlands. This impressive interdisciplinary thesis engages with the fields of anthropology, history, history of science, Southeast Asian studies, feminist studies, trans and q***r studies. It also stands on unimpeachably solid empirical foundations, with source materials written in Tagalog, Spanish, and English and obtained from archives and libraries at Cornell, Michigan, Library of Congress, Chicago, and the Philippines. A true testament to the value and purpose of interdisciplinary scholarship, Juan’s exemplary dissertation conveys the importance of deep comparative knowledge of Southeast Asia. We anticipate that this dissertation will be widely read by scholars within and beyond Southeast Asian studies, and we also expect that its deft engagement with the history of anthropology will serve as a model for how other disciplines rethink their historical origins, in particular through the colonial encounter but also on through the contemporary era. We are pleased to award the Sharp Prize to such a compelling interdisciplinary dissertation, and to recognize Juan as a dedicated leader in the intellectual life of the Southeast Asia Program.

-- Tom Pepinsky and Juno Salazar Parreñas
This was first published in the Spring 2025 SEAP Bulletin