The Contributors
Abhik Gupta is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Assam University, Silchar, India. His research interests are freshwater ecology, pollution, environmental policy, and ethics in which he has published about 200 journal articles and book chapters. He has also presented papers in over one hundred seminars and conferences in India and fourteen other countries. He was the recipient of the Water Voice Messenger Award from the World Water Council;
Fellow of National Institute of Ecology in India; Erasmus Mundus Senior Scholarship; and Erasmus Mundus India NAMASTE Academic Staff Grant at the Netherlands and Spain. He was the principal investigator of international academic and action projects, and has delivered guest lectures at universities in Australia, Spain, USA, the Netherlands, Japan, and India. He has also successfully supervised over twenty-five doctoral dissertations.
Felice Prudente Sta. Maria is an internationally awarded author of non-fiction, an advocate of cultural action as civic action, and, by avocation, a food historian specializing in the
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Spanish and American colonial periods of the Philippines.
She was a Commissioner for Cultural Heritage at National Commission for Culture and Arts, and for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines. <[email protected]>
William Holden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. His research interests include the Philippines, the meteorological hazards of anthropogenic climate change, the efficacy of mining as a development strategy, insurgency/counterinsurgency warfare, state terrorism, and the roles played by Liberation Theology and Maoism as counter hegemonic discourses in the twenty-first century. <[email protected]>
Kathleen Nadeau is a professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. She recently published the second edition of The History of The Philippines in April 2020. In addition to this, her list of published works include ABC-CLIO’s Women and Violence: Global Lives in Focus, Pop Culture in Asia and Oceania, Women’s Roles in Asia, Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife, Greenwood’s The History of the Philippines, and Praeger’s Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution; as well as, Ecological Liberation Theology: Faith-Based Approaches to Poverty and Climate Change in the Philippines with Springer Press, and Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life, Lexington Books. <[email protected]>
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Miwako Hosoda is a Professor and Vice-President of Seisa University, Japan. She received her MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Tokyo. After working as a research fellow for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, she studied at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, and the Harvard School of Public Health. She has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Japan Foundation of Cancer Research. She was elected President of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association and President of RN (Sociology of Health) East Asia Sociological Association. In 2010 she was elected to the Board of ISA RC15 (Sociology of Health) and in 2018 to the position of President. Presently, Professor Hosoda conducts research on the sociology of healthcare and ethics. <[email protected]>
Mabi David is a published writer, food activist, and teacher of fermentation. She co-edited Makisawsaw (Makati:
Gantala Press, 2019), a collection of ideas and recipes.
Bernardita Azurin-Quimpo is a writer, psychologist, and farmer. She earned her AB in English-Journalism from St.
Paul University of Manila and her MA in Counseling Psychology from the Ateneo de Manila University. She went back to school in midlife to take up psychology after editing and publishing a farm magazine (Farming Today) for over fifteen years and a four-year stint with the Technology and Livelihood Resource Center (TLRC) as Print Publications
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Manager. She is an independent consultant and has worked with educational nonprofits running scholarship programs.
She is now semi-retired and spends her time developing a forest garden in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato.
Michael Charleston “Xiao” Chua is an Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the History Department, De La Salle University and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Broadcast Communication, University of the Philippines.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (2005) and Masters of History (2010) from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He is also a PhD Anthropology candidate from the same university. Along with these appellations, he is the co- author of the monograph Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo and writes a Saturday column for the Manila Times. Taking to the stage of broadcast media, he has become one of the most active historians in the Philippine media: He was an original bottom liner in “The Bottom Line with Boy Abunda,” a historical consultant for Lourd de Veyra’s “History with Lourd,” the television series “Ilustrado,” and “Katipunan.”
Lastly, he is the creator of “Xiao Time,” a television segment that is now an Abante Sunday column.
