Vicente
Rafael: Areas of Graduate Study
This field is constructed with an emphasis on island Southeast Asia and
the Philippines from 1521 to the present.
Asian American socio-cultural histories, with an emphasis on Filipino
Americans and Filipino overseas workers
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.
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