Teaching

[Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, 2021] (introduced this course)

Animals, as the American naturalist Henry Beston (1888-1968) put it poetically, are “other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” This course examines the changing interactions of nonhuman animals and humans from the eighteenth century to the present times. By exploring the ways these relations developed, the course looks into the various socio-economic and cultural positions involving animals: in agriculture, transportation, food, industrialization, warfare, medicine, experimentation, and sports and entertainment. Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach to these themes, the course will investigate animals within varying scales across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

[Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, 2023] (as lecturer)

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s most diverse and multifaceted regions. Bounded by India to the west, China to the east, and Australasia to the south, and some of the world’s largest oceans and most contested waterways, it has long been a region in flux. This course aims to introduce students to the Southeast Asian world and its past, from the early modern period through to the end of the twentieth century. Specifically, this course will focus on both mainland and maritime Southeast Asia, examining countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar, amongst others, and their historical antecedents. Similarly, it will focus on the region’s transnational connections, stepping beyond orthodox national boundaries. The course charts the rise and fall of local polities and Western empires, the transnational and transregional movement of peoples, commodities and ideas, and the evolving impact of Southeast Asia’s geographies, economies and environments. Students will be introduced to areas of Southeast Asia that are seldom studied and will be challenged to investigate issues of historical significance, contemporary relevance and continuing social and cultural interest. This course will encourage students to question how Southeast Asia shaped—and was shaped by—the world around it, and how it has in turn impacted key issues in our contemporary society. Students will be introduced to basic themes in historiography and will be encouraged to evaluate source materials and historical literature for bias and significance. Finally, this course will demonstrate why Southeast Asia is such an important region worthy of historical investigation.

[Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, 2022-present] (introduced this course)

According to food historian Penny van Esterick, food and drink often carry “the traces of their colonized pasts” due to the shared experience of colonized regions in East, South, and Southeast Asia. Such interactions between cultures within the colonial era resulted in the adoption of particular eating and drinking practices, recipes, and manners. This course explores the cultural world of food and drink in colonial Asia (since 1500). By investigating the economic, political, and cultural interactions of food and drink cultures within the colonial and imperial context, the course examines the transformations and contestations as seen in the development of plantation economies, trading networks, migration, foodways, national identities, food technologies, sanitation, nutrition, and environments. Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the course will investigate the historical processes in which colonialism and globalization have informed food and drink cultures in Asia.

[Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, 2023] (Designed this course)

The course examines the development of Philippine society from the precolonial beginnings and the onset of Spanish colonization (mid-1500s) to the second EDSA People Power Revolution in 2002.  By situating the Philippines within the connections and movements of Asia and the trans-Pacific world, this course investigates Philippine culture and society as a product of internal and external contexts, contestations, and transformations. Significant topics include: colonization, ilustrado nationalism, modernization and urbanization, reform and resistance, migrant diaspora, neocolonialism, and conjugal dictatorship. The course also seeks to compare and contrast the Philippines with the development of colonial Hong Kong to demonstrate similarities and differences of colonial rule, the connections between them, and the trajectories of these relationships.

[Department of History, The University of Hong Kong, 2022-present] (as lecturer)

All courses offered by the History Department aim at providing students with a range of learning opportunities which encourage the acquisition of both knowledge and skills through their interactions with teachers and fellow students, and also through their own personal research. HIST 4015 examines the development of History as a distinct intellectual discipline in the Western tradition from the eighteenth century to the present day. Its focus will be both the theoretical/philosophical aspects of the discipline and the more practical problems faced by historians and those who read historical works. The focus of the course is largely on the Western historical tradition, but some references will be made to Asian traditions in the writing of history.

[Health Sciences Program, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University, 2022-2023] (as lecturer and thesis supervisor)

The Scholarly Work Series engage undergraduate students to conduct research on the health sector and to appreciate the importance of research in health and sustainable development. The series entail the application of acquired knowledge, skills, and values from various disciplines, such as epidemiology, social sciences, economics, communication, informatics, and management, in the study of health. Encompassing four semesters, the Scholarly Work Series allow students to fully develop and implement research on chosen health-related topics under the mentorship of faculty advisers.

[Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, 2012 – 2017] (as instructor and lecturer)

As Hi 165 traces the development of the Philippines from the pre-Spanish period to the Revolution of 1896-97, Hi 166 concentrates on the challenges that the Philippines faced in its efforts to establish an independent democratic republic. The course discusses the forging of a national identity and government in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the entry of the United States and the Philippine-American War, the experience under American colonial rule, preparation for eventual independence, the exigencies of war and occupation under Japan, and the struggles of the young republic. The course closes with the declaration of martial law in 1972, when the nation’s experiment with Western-style democracy came to a temporary end.

[Department of History and Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, Ateneo de Manila University, 2016] (introduced this course)

This course explores the ways history is presented in interactive digital games and simulations. The course presents selected historical computer games paired with written historical scholarship that allow the discussion of fundamental themes, approaches, arguments, and issues that arise with digital games. It also offers an opportunity for the students to experience history as a simulated experience through the assessment of game-makers’ presentations of history.

[Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, 2017] (as instructor)

Analysis of basic concepts, employed in historical interpretation, their implication to philosophy proper and theology, and a study of some of the major philosophers of history. This course also examines historiography as a craft in the presentation of historical research. It explores historiographic concerns in three ways: the actual history of the writing of history, the theories and philosophies associated in the writing of history, and the practice of current and experimental forms of historical writing. Through workshops in historical writing, the course offers opportunities to students to be immersed in the art and craft of historiography for a wide array of uses.

“The Cantonese Congregation in French Indochina.”

Chan Ka Wai Percy

Department of History, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong

“The Passive Defence of the Autonomy of Food and Hygiene in Kowloon Walled City: 1945-1994.”

Lai Man Chung Anson

Department of History, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong

“The Modern Hong Kong Women: Through the Lens of Mrs Lisa Fong and Chinese Food.”

Mak Charmaine

Department of History, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong

“From City Beautiful to the Healthy Cities: Narratives of Disability, and Persons with Visual Impairments in the Built Environment of Baguio City since 1904.”

Ma. Daniella Louise Aoanan, Sheanne Izabel Cabantac, Bianca Isabel Hidalgo, John Paulo Mendoza, Dean Ellis Ong, Rachel Margaret Paguia, and JC Glenn Berdin.

Health Sciences Program, School of Sciences and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University

* Recipient of the Ateneo ASCEND Awards for Best Senior Group Research