University of Hawai’i at Manoa

FEDERICO V. MAGDALENA, Ph.D.
    Faculty Specialist, UHM Center for Philippine Studies
    Lecturer, University of Hawaii at Manoa and Honolulu Community College
    Tel: (808) 845-9410 or (808) 956-6086
    Fax: (808) 956-2682
    Email: fm@hawaii.edu

Dr. Magdalena is with the Center for Philippine Studies as Faculty Specialist and concurrently serves as Lecturer at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa (UHM). He was an Adjunct Faculty at Chaminade University of Honolulu.

He received his academic training in Sociology (Ph.D. Sociology, University of Hawai'i-Manoa; MA Sociology, University of the Philippines) and was trained in community development for his undergraduate degree (BS Comm. Dev., Mindanao State University, Cum Laude). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at George Washington University, Alumni-in-Residence Fellow at the East-West Center, and Research Fellow at Singapore’s Institute for Southeast Asian Studies. He has taught for over 25 years at Mindanao State University, Marawi City, half of that time was devoted to serving as Director of Research. He also served as Lecturer/Adjunct Faculty in the sociology/anthropology graduate programs of the University of the Philippines in Diliman and Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa where he taught courses in Asian Studies and sociology.

Among the courses he has taught are: Islam in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, Mindanao peoples, Philippine Studies, and “standard” sociology courses (race and ethnicity, social theory, research methods, social statistics, including social conflict/peace studies, etc.). During 1996-2000 he was with the graduate faculty of the Program on Peace Studies and Development run under a consortium of four Philippine universities (Mindanao State University, Xavier University, and Notre Dame University.

While serving in the faculty of Mindanao State University, he received research grants from and worked as consultant to various organizations, such as the World Bank (planning for child health), Asian Development Bank (irrigation), UNICEF (children and mothers’ care), Toyota Foundation (Islamic schools in Mindanao, Ethnohistory of Muslim Mindanao), Sumitomo Foundation (Japanese in Davao, Philippines), and national agencies (NIA, DSWD, NSTA, DOH) in the Philippines, among others.

Among his publications are: "Mindanao," and "Moro Province," in The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine American Wars: A Political and Military History, Spencer C. Tucker (ed.). (California: ABC-CLIO Pub. 2009); . “Filipino Soldier’s Heroism during World War II and their Continuing Quest for Justice and Equity,” World War II, Filipino American Veterans of Hawaii. Leonor A. Briscoe (ed.), Honolulu: Filipino Community Center, 2006. (co-author with Dean T. Alegado); The Battle of Bayang and Other Essays on Moroland (Mindanao State University, 2002); Survey of Indigenous People’s Access to and Utilization of Early Childhood Services in Region XII-B, Mindanao. (Manila: World Bank and Dept. of Social Welfare and Development, 2001); “The Chinese in Moroland,” Mindanao Journal, 24 (MSU, 2001); “Linking the Moro Struggle and the Philippine Revolution,” Dansalan Quarterly, (Dansalan College, 2001): 48-53; Islamic Education in the Philippines: Trends, Patterns and Prospects (MSU, 2000); “Philippine Politics and the Moro Question,” CSSH Graduate Research Journal, (MSU, 1999, from a paper presented to the international conference on “State of Philippine Studies,” James Cook University, Townsville, Australia, July 8-11, 1998); The Peace Process in Mindanao: Problems and Prospects," Southeast Asian Affairs 1997 (Singapore: ISEAS, 1997); “Population Growth and Changing Ecosystems in Mindanao,” Sojourn, Vol. 11 (Singapore: ISEAS, 1996); "Moros and Americans in the Philippines," Philippine Studies 43 (Ateneo de Manila University, 1996); Ethnicity, Identity and Conflict: The Case of the Philippine Moros (Singapore: ISEAS, 1995); Introduction to Computer Applications (MSU, 1994); "Lake Lanao Operations, Moro Province, The Philippines," “Moro Cotta,” “Robert Bullard,” and “Battle of Bayang” in The War of 1898 and U.S. Interventions, edited by Benjamin R. Beede (New York: Garland Publishing, 1994); and "Colonization and the Moro-Indio Conflict in Mindanao, Philippines," Studies in Third World Societies, Vol. 48 (College of William & Mary, Virginia, USA,1992).

He can be reached at the Center for Philippine Studies, Moore Hall 415, School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1890 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, or by sending him an email at this address: < fm@hawaii.edu>