CELESTINA BONCAN holds a PhD in History from the University of the Philippines Diliman.She is co-author of the book The Filipino Saga: History as Social Change. She received two international research scholarships, the first from the Fulbright Progr...More
CELESTINA BONCAN holds a PhD in History from the University of the Philippines Diliman.She is co-author of the book The Filipino Saga: History as Social Change. She received two international research scholarships, the first from the Fulbright Program of the U.S. State Department in 2002 which enabled her to do research on Philippine-American colonial relations at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. and the second from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2003 for which she conducted research at the Rockefeller Archive Center at Sleepy Hollow, New York on the public health initiatives of the Rockefeller Foundation in the Philippines from 1900 to 1930. In 2016 she received the One U.P. Professorial Chair for Social Science in Teaching and in Research. In 2008, she received the U.P. Manila Centennial Faculty Award. In 2007, she was the Outstanding Faculty for Extension Service of the University of the Philippines Manila. In 2006 and in 2003 she was the Outstanding Faculty for Teaching of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of the Philippines Manila. She is a member of the Pi Gamma Mu, the international honor society in the Social Sciences. She is a lifetime member and former president of the Philippine Historical Association, the honor and professional association of historians of the Philippines. She was former Chief of the Research, Publications and Heraldry Division of the National Historical Institute (now the National Historical Commission of the Philippines). From 2017-2019 she was the head of the National Committee for Historical Research of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Her research interests include social, economic and urban history of the Philippines from the 17th to the 19th centuries and education, public health and governance in the Philippines from 1900 to 1935. At present, she is a Professor of History at the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of the Philippines Manila.
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