Faculty and Staff
Augusto Espiritu
Assistant Professor of History
| Position | 2000 to present |
Assistant Professor, History Department and Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| Education | UCLA History, Ph.D. 2000 |
(Fulbright Scholar, Manila, Philippines, 1995-96)
UCLA Asian American Studies, M. A. 1992
Publications
| Books | Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals. |
| Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 336 pp. | |
| Articles | “The Dual Revolution: Filipino Americans, Filipino Migrants, and the Politics of Transnationalism.” Journal of American History (under consideration) |
| “ ‘To carry water on both shoulders’: Carlos P. Romulo, American Empire, and the Meaning of Bandung.” Radical History Review, forthcoming in Special Issue on “New Imperialisms,” no.95 (Spring 2006). | |
| “Beyond Eve and Mary: Filipino American Intellectual Heroes and the Transnational Performance of Gender and Reciprocity.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, vol. 12, no. 3 (Winter 2003): 361-386. | |
| “Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History.” After the Imperial Turn: Thinking Through the Nation, Post-Colonialism, ed. Antoinette Burton (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 186-195. | |
| “The ‘Pre-History’ of an ‘Asian-American’ Writer: N. V. M. Gonzalez’ Allegory of Decolonization.” Amerasia Journal, Special Issue, Centennial Commemoration, Essays into American Empire, vol. 24, no. 3 (Winter 1999): 126-142. | |
| “Filipino Americans: History, Myth, and Promise.” Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity, Revised and Expanded Edition, ed. John D. Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005), 117-148. | |
| Reprints | “The ‘Pre-history of an Asian-American Writer: N.V.M. Gonzalez’ Allegory of Decolonization.” Reprinted in Alternative Legacies: Rediscovering Early Asian American Literature, ed. Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, forthcoming). |
Awards and Fellowships
University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002
Ford Foundation, December 2002
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, “Resistance and Empire” Reading Group, 2003-2006
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Amy Ling Grant, 2003
Recent Talks
“Five Faces of Exile.” Philippine Studies Symposium, sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Philippine Studies Group, and the Philippine Studies Graduate Student Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, December 3, 2005.
“Japan and Japanese Americans in the Filipino Imagination.” The Philippines and Japan under U.S. Shadow, Japan Society for Philippine Studies, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan November 12-13, 2005.
“Exile Politics: Filipino American Intellectual Experiences.”
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Oct. 12, 2005
“Whither the Nation? The Post-Colonial Visions of Jose Rizal and Bienvenido Santos.” International Conference on Philippine Studies, Leiden-Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 16-19, 2004.
“Under the Stars or a Mushroom Cloud: The Bamboo Dancers and N. V. M. Gonzalez’ Literary Humanism.” International Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore, August 2003.
“Philippine-American Studies: Bridging the Agenda Gap,” Ford Foundation and Philippine Social Sciences Council, Metro Manila, Philippines, December 19-23, 2002.