The Decolonial Studies Research Network (DSRN) intends to link scholars, researchers, practitioners, teachers, and students interested in decolonial studies. The DSRN was formed on February 11, 2020 through the initiative of the members of the Decolonial Studies Program of the University of the Philippines’ Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS-DSP) and with close collaboration with the Philippine International Studies Organization (PHISO). The UP CIDS Decolonial Studies Program was established on January 2019 through the initiative of Nassef Manabilang Adiong with the core members three months before its creation.
DSRN focuses on encouraging conversations about the forces of modernity and coloniality that continue to impact institutions in the Global South in ways that could hinder them from achieving their liberating potential. However, DSRN does not intend to limit itself to area studies and seeks to involve comparative cross-disciplinary analyses in various Global South regions, including critical engagements with Global North institutions. The network is open to scholars, students, and practitioners in any field of knowledge.
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THE DSRN TEAM
MARIE AUBREY VILLACERAN
Marie Aubrey Villaceran is an assistant professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines (UP). She is currently the Director of the UP Center for Women and Gender Studies and the Convenor of the Decolonial Studies Program at the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies. She holds a PhD in Sociology from La Trobe University. She writes and handles courses on creative nonfiction and does research on gender and migration.
FRANCES ANTOINETTE CRUZ
Frances Antoinette Cruz is an assistant professor at the Department of European Languages, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman. Her key research areas are soft power, middle power states, and migration in the Middle East. She is Co-convenor of the Decolonial Studies Program of the UP Center for Integrative and Development Studies and currently serves as the President of the Philippine International Studies Organization.
NASSEF MANABILANG ADIONG
Nassef Manabilang Adiong is the founder of Co-IRIS (International Relations and Islamic Studies Research Cohort), PHISO (Philippine International Studies Organization), DSRN (Decolonial Studies Research Network), and BRLN (Bangsamoro Research and Legal Network). He is presently the Director of the Bangsamoro Parliament’s Policy Research and Legal Services and a Professorial Lecturer at the UP Asian Center and Miriam College’s International Studies department. He researches policy issues relating to historical, religio-cultural, socio-political, economic, environmental, and security aspects of the Bangsamoro society and explores decolonial knowledge sources of the global south as well as interdisciplinary study between Islam and International Relations.
Research Fellows and Project Leaders
AILEEN O. SALONGA
Aileen O. Salonga is Professor at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She has a PhD in English Language Studies from the National University of Singapore and writes in the areas of language and gender, language and work, language and affect, and the politics of English/es.
GRACE M. SAqueton
Grace M. Saqueton is an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of English Studies at the Department of English and Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman. She finished both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in English Studies, major in English Language, from the same university. Her research interests include the politics of englishes, language and identity, multilingualism and language inequalities, language and gender, critical discourse analysis, and critical language pedagogy.
ARCHILL NIÑA FALLEr-Capistrano
Archill Niña Faller-Capistrano is an assistant professor of political science at the University of the Philippines Cebu and is currently the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Children’s Legal Bureau. Archill took her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of San Carlos and their Master of Arts in International Relations degree from Monash University. She is the current President of the Philippine International Studies Organization (PHISO).
Luis Emmanuel a. abesamis
Luis Emmanuel A. Abesamis is a Senior Lecturer of Behavioral Science at the University of the Philippines Manila. They earned their Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Science at UP Manila and their Master of Health Social Science at De La Salle University Manila. Their research interests include transgender studies, critical public health, community health, critical social psychology, and policy analysis.
DSRN Staff
ilene de jesus
Ilene de Jesus is Coordinator of the UP CIDS Decolonial Studies Program. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Community Development from the University of the Philippines Diliman and is presently pursuing their Master’s degree in Industrial Relations from the same institution.
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