GLENN ANTHONY MAY
Professor of History
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
541-346-4320
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EDUCATION
Ph. D. 1975Yale University
M. Phil.1971Yale University
B.A.1966Yale University (Magna Cum Laude; PBK)
EMPLOYMENT
1989-Professor of History, University of Oregon
1985-89Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon
1983-85Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon
1980-83Research Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU
1979-80Fulbright Lecturer, University of the Philippines
1975-79Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Southeast Asian History
Mexican American History
History of U.S. Foreign Relations
PUBLICATIONS—BOOKS (Refereed)
A Past Updated: Further Essays on Philippine History and Historiography (Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 2013), viii + 248 pp.
Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2011), x + 326 pp.
*Finalist, Oregon Book Awards, General Nonfiction, 2012
Inventing a Hero: The Posthumous Re-Creation of Andres Bonifacio (Madison: University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1996), xii + 200 pp. (Philippine ed., Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1997).
*Finalist, Philippine National Book Awards, History, 1997
Battle for Batangas: A Philippine Province at War (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1991), xxiii + 382 pp. (Philippine ed., Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1993).
A Past Recovered: Essays on Philippine History and Historiography (Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1987), x + 257 pp.
Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims, Execution and Impact of American Colonial Policy, 1900-1913 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980), xxvii + 268 pp. (Philippine ed., Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 1984).
PUBLICATIONS—ARTICLES, CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (Refereed)
“A Boy from San Nicolas: The Early Years and Trans-Pacific Journey of Larry Dulay Itliong,” in Glenn Anthony May, A Past Updated: Further Essays on Philippine History and Historiography (Quezon City: New Day Publishers, 2013), 131-49.
“The Business of Education in the Colonial Philippines, 1909-1930," in Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano, eds., Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), 151-62.
"Warfare by Pulong: Bonifacio, Aguinaldo, and the Philippine Revolution Against Spain," Philippine Studies 55 (Fourth Quarter 2007): 449-77.
“The Making of a Myth: John Leddy Phelan and the ‘Hispanization’ of Land Tenure in the Philippines,” Philippine Studies 52 (Third Quarter 2004): 275-308.
“Civilian Flight during the Philippine Revolution of 1896,” in Florentino Rodao and Felice Noelle Rodriguez, eds., Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: The Philippine Revolution of 1896 (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2001), 125-41.
“Why the Filipinos Fired High: Popular Participation in the Philippine Revolution and Philippine-American War,” Biblion: The Bulletin of the New York Public Library 7 (Spring 1999): 87-106.
“Was the Philippine-American War a ‘Total War’?” in Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering, and Stig Förster, eds., Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871-1914 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 437-57.
“Father Frank Lynch and the Shaping of Philippine Social Science,” Itinerario 22 (1998): 99-121.
“The Unfathomable Other: Historical Studies of U.S.-Philippine Relations,” in Warren I. Cohen, ed., Pacific Passage: The Study of American-East Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 279-312.
“Agoncillo’s Bonifacio: The Revolt of the Masses Reconsidered,” Pilipinas 17 (Fall 1991): 51-67.
“Civic Ritual and Political Reality: Municipal Elections in the Late Nineteenth Century Philippines,” in Ruby R. Paredes, ed., Philippine Colonial Democracy (New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1988), 13-40.
“150,000 Missing Filipinos: A Demographic Crisis in Batangas, 1987-1903,” Annales de Démographie Historique (1985): 215-43.
“Private Presher and Sergeant Vergara: The Underside of the Philippine-American War,” in Peter W. Stanley, ed., Reappraising an Empire: New Perspectives on Philippine-American History (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), 35-57.
“Resistance and Collaboration in the Philippine-American War,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 15 (March 1984): 69-90.
“Why the United States Won the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902,” Pacific Historical Review 52 (Nov. 1983): 353-77.
“A Past Revisited, A Past Distorted,” Diliman Review 31 (March-April 1983): 69-79.
“The ‘Zones’ of Batangas,” Philippine Studies 29 (First Quarter 1981): 89-103.
“Filipino Resistance to American Occupation: Batangas, 1899-1902,” Pacific Historical Review 48 (Nov. 1979): 531-56.
“Social Engineering in the Philippines: The Aims and Execution of American Educational Policy, 1900-1913,” Philippine Studies 24 (Third Quarter 1976): 1-49.
PUBLICATIONS—ARTICLES, CHAPTERS IN BOOKS (Un-refereed)
“War and Disease in the Battle for Batangas,” in Dennis Merrill and Thomas Paterson, eds., Major Problems in American Foreign Relations, Volume 1: To 1920, 5th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 393-401.
“A Reply to Guerrero and Villegas,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 19 and May 26, 1997.
Contributions on “Emilio Aguinaldo,” “Benigno and Corazon Aquino,” “Ferdinand Marcos,” and “The Philippines,” in Thomas G. Paterson and Bruce W. Jentleson, eds., The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations, 4 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
“Vanishing Archives: Historical Manuscripts Disappearing from Philippine Institutions,” Far Eastern Economic Review (Jan. 27, 1994), 34-35.
“The Special Relationship on Trial,” Bulletin of the American Historical Collection 13 (July 1985): 84-98.
“The State of Philippine-American Studies,” Bulletin of the American Historical Collection 10 (Oct. 1982): 11-31.
“An American Colonial War,” Hemisphere 26 (May-June 1982): 354-59.
“Filipino Revolutionaries in the Making: The Old School Tie in Late Nineteenth-Century Batangas,” Bulletin of the American Historical Collection 9 (July 1981): 53-64.
PUBLICATIONS—OTHER
Book reviews and review essays in: American Historical Review; Australasian Journal of American Studies; Australian Outlook; Bulletin of the American Historical Collection; Diplomatic History; Far Eastern Economic Review; Fort Worth Star-Telegram; IIAS Newsletter; Journal of American-East Asian Relations; Journal of American History; Journal of Asian Studies; Oregon Historical Quarterly;Pacific Affairs; Pacific Historical Review; Pilipinas.
Articles about historical and current developments in Southeast Asia and the United States in: Asia Sentinel; Christian Science Monitor; Eugene Register-Guard; Far Eastern Economic Review;Oregonian; Statesman Journal; YaleGlobal Online.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
The Road from San Nicolas, a book about the Filipino farmworkers who launched the Delano Grape Strike of 1965.
Calaca: Daily life in a Philippine village in the 19th century.
LANGUAGES: Tagalog/Filipino (advanced level); French (advanced level); Spanish (advanced level); Mandarin (intermediate level); German (intermediate level).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE (selected)
University of Oregon:
Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, 2004-07
Friends of the Library Committee, 1999-2004
Graduate Council, 1992-95
Director, Southeast Asian Studies, 1992-94, 1987-89
Organizer, Southeast Asian Studies Conference, Oct. 1988
Co-Director, Southeast Asian Studies, 1985-87
Australian National University:
Organizer, Conference on Disease and Death in Southeast Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983
Faculty Board, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (selected)
Refereed articles for 26 scholarly journals
Refereed books for 18 presses
Fulbright National Screening Panel for Southeast Asia, 2007-08
Associate Director (and co-founder), Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies, 1992-94, 1987-89
Board of Directors, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, 1987-89
Advisory Committee, U.S.-Indochina Reconciliation Project, 1987-89
Editor, Pilipinas, 1987-96
Executive Committee, Philippine Studies Group, Association for Asian Studies, 1985-93 (Executive Secretary, 1991-93)
Nominating Committee, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 1985-87 (Chair, 1985-86)
Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review, 1984-86
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (selected)
Oregon State University and UO, Sept. 2011
Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, June 2011; Dec. 2010; Oct. 2010
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Jan. 2011
International Conference on Philippine Studies, Quezon City, Philippines, July 2008
Portland State University, March 2008
Conference on “Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State,” Madison, WI, Nov. 2006
Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asia, Quezon City, Oct. 2006; Singapore, Oct. 1986
Forum on the History of Philippine Democratic Institutions, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, July 2006 (featured speaker)
International Conference on Philippine Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands, June 2004
University of Washington, March 2003, Feb. 1993; March 1988; May 1987
Lecture Series entitled “At Century’s Turn: 1898 and the Legacy of Empire,” University of Wisconsin, Madison, Nov. 1998 (featured speaker)
Conference on the American Experience in Asia, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Wassenaar), Oct. 1998
EUROSEAS Conference, Hamburg, Germany, Sept. 1998
Conference on Popular Participation in the Spanish-American War, CUNY, March 1998 (featured speaker)
Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Estudios del Pacífico, Valladolid, Spain, Nov. 1997 (featured speaker)
Ateneo de Manila University (Quezon City), Jan. 1997
University of Santo Tomas (Quezon City), Convocation Address, Jan. 1997
Far Eastern University (Manila), Jan. 1997; July 1996
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Nov. 1995
Association for Asian Studies Convention, Washington, D.C., April 1995; Los Angeles, March 1993; Philadelphia, March 1985
“Anticipating Total War” Conference, Augsburg, Germany, July 1994
Conference on American-East Asian Relations, Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., April 1994
University of the Philippines, Diliman, Nov. 1993; June 1988
Yale University, Oct. 1985; Dec. 1981
National University of Singapore, July 1983
Conference on Disease and Death in Southeast Asian History, Australian National University, May 1983
National Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne, May 1982
University of the Philippines, Manila, May 1980
Luce Workshop on Philippine-American History, Harvard University, Aug. 1978
American Historical Association Convention, Atlanta, Dec. 1975
AWARDS AND GRANTS (selected)
Finalist, Oregon Book Awards, General Nonfiction, 2012 (for Sonny Montes)
Endeavour Fellowship, Department of History, University of Oregon, 2011-12, 2006-07
Visiting Professorship, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2010-2011
University of Oregon Summer Faculty Award, 2010, 2003, 1994, 1988, 1984
International Institute for Asian Studies Senior Fellowship, Leiden, 2004
Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship, 2003-04, 1994-95
International Institute for Asian Studies Senior Fellowship, Amsterdam, 1997
Finalist, Philippine National Book Awards (for Inventing a Hero), 1997
Oregon Committee for the Humanities Research Grant, 1990
Social Science Research Council Grant, 1989-90
Department of Education National Resource Center Grant (co-principal investigator), $470,000, 1988-91
Ford Foundation Grants (co-principal investigator), $500,000, 1988-91; $50,000, 1987
Professor of the Month (teaching award), University of Oregon, April 1985; Nov. 1983
Louis Knott Koontz Prize, 1984 (awarded for the “most deserving article” appearing in the Pacific Historical Review)
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Research Fellowship, 1980-83
Fulbright Lectureship, Philippines, 1979-80
University of Texas at Arlington Summer Faculty Awards, 1976-78
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1976
Concilium on International Studies, Yale University, Research Grants, 1972-73
Carnegie Teaching Fellowship, Yale University, 1966-67
Phi Beta Kappa, 1966
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