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Letter from the Chair

Augusto F Espiritu

Associate Professor of History
Department Head, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies
HISTORY; Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Affiliated Faculty of Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies

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Office Hours

Spring 2011: Wednesday, 1:30pm - 3:00pm, 431 Gregory Hall

Areas of Specialization

Asian American Intellectuals, Transnationalism, post-Colonialism, Race and Gender, 1898 and American Empire

Biography

After 12 years of private Catholic education in the Philippines and the United States, I went to public higher education at UCLA and received all my advance degrees, including the doctorate in history, at this fabulous institution. I came to Illinois ten years ago to join the history department full time while also being among the first faculty to constitute the Asian American Studies program. I currently also have an affiliation with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Publications

Books

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Book Contributions


  • Espiritu, Augusto. "The Japanese in the Filipino American Imagination." The Philippines and Japan under U.S. Shadow. . Ed. Yoshiko Nagano and Kiichi Fujiwara. Singapore: NUS Press, 2010.

  • Espiritu, Augusto. "Journeys of Discovery and Difference: Transnational Politics and the Union of Democratic Filipinos." Transnational Political Behavior and Asian Americans. . Ed. Pei-te Lien and Christian Collett. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.

Journal Articles

  • Espiritu, Augusto. "Transnationalism and Filipino American Historiography." Journal of Asian American Studies 11.2 (2008): 171-185.
  • "'To Carry Water on Both Shoulders': Carlos P. Romulo, American Empire, and the Meaning of Bandung." Radical History Review (2006): 173-190.