NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
Belinda A Aquino
holds a PhD (Political Science) from Cornell University, an MA (Political Science) from the University ofHawaii and a BA (English) from the University of the Philippines. An internationally recognized authority on Philippine affairs, she is a professor of political science and Asian studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa where she is also director of the Center for Philippine Studies. She was vice-president for public affairs at the University of the Philippines in 1989-1991 and a visiting professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1997-1998.She hails from San Fernando, La Union.
Harold Crouch
is a senior fellow of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He has taught at the University of Indone- sia, National University of Malaysia and the University of the Philippines.JoseY Dalisay Jr
holds a PhD in English (Creative Writing) from the Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and teaches English at the University of the Philip- pines, where he is an associate professor. He has published nine books of fiction, drama, and essays, five of which have won National Book Awards from the Manila Critics Circle. He has been a Fulbright-Hays, Hawthornden, and Cambridge Semi- nar fellow. In 197 3, he was arrested and imprisoned for subversion. In 1980, he wrote a full-length play (Pagsabog ng Liwanag) loosely based on the lives of the Lava broth- ers, which led to his being commissioned by the Lava family in 1996 for the biogra- phy - for publication later this year by Anvil Books. The essay published here is an excerpt from that biography.Edmund Terence Gomez
is a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Adminis- tration, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.Gary A Hawes
joined the Manila office of the Ford Foundation in July of 1995.His primary program responsibilities are work on local governance, civic participa- tion, and more recently, environmental protection. Before joining the Foundation, he taught comparative politics and the political economy of development at Ohio University and the University of Michigan. He is the author of articles on revolu- tionary movements, the comparative political economy of East Asia, and Southeast Asian political development. He has also written a book entitled The Philippine State and the Marcos Regime: The Politics of Export.
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