Vicente L. Rafael

Professor

Contact Information

vrafael@uw.edu

(206) 543-5699

SMI 116A

Office Hours:

By appointment

Fields of Interest

Asian American Comparative Colonialisms Empire and Colonialism Historiography Nationalism Philippine and Filipino American Race and Ethnicity Southeast Asia United States

Biography

Ph.D. Cornell University, 1984

M.A. Cornell University, 1982

BA, Ateneo de Manila University, 1977

Trained in Southeast Asian history, European intellectual history and anthropology, my research interests include areas such as language and power, the politics of translation, Comparative Colonialisms and nationalism, the social history of media and mediation, critical theory and anthropology, empire, race and gender. Much of my writing has been on the colonial and post-colonial Philippines and the United States.

Research

Selected Research

Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations

Courses Taught

Summer 2017 A-term

HSTCMP 205 A: Filipino Histories

Spring 2017

HSTCMP 485 A: Comparative Colonialism

Winter 2017

Autumn 2016

Summer 2016 A-term

HSTCMP 205 A: Filipino Histories

Spring 2016

HSTCMP 485 A: Comparative Colonialism

Winter 2016

Autumn 2015

Graduate Study Areas

Divisions

Asia: Pre-History to Present Comparative History: Comparative Colonialisms Comparative History: Comparative Ethnicity and Nationalism Comparative History: Historiography United States

Division: Asia--Pre-History to the Present

This field is constructed with an emphasis on island Southeast Asia and the Philippines from 1521 to the present.

Division: United States History

Asian American socio-cultural histories, with an emphasis on Filipino Americans and Filipino overseas workers

Division: Comparative History (Historiography, Comparative Ethnicity & Nationalism, and Comparative Colonialisms)*

A field in Comparative Historiography will include Nationalist and postcolonial conceptions of history, deconstruction, critical theory especially as these relate to the politics of translation, religion, and media technologies. A field in Comparative Colonialisms will carry a focus on United States and Spanish imperialism in Asia and the Pacific. The field in Comparative Nationalism and Ethnicity focuses on the historical and technological conditions for the rise of nationhood, as well as the role of mass media, translation and the languages of power in nationalist discourses.

*Students may not offer a field in the Comparative History division as a first field.

Resources & Related Links

Vicente Rafael's publications at Duke University Press

Vicente Rafael's other publications on Academia.edu

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