Professor Mina Roces

Professor Mina Roces

Professor

BA Hons Sydney University, MA PhD University of Michigan

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

A Phd graduate from The University of Michigan, Mina Roces is a Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Languages in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture. She is the author of five books: Women, Power and Kinship Politics in Post-War Philippines (Praeger 1998), Kinship Politics in Post-War Philippines: The Lopez Family, 1946-2000 (de la Salle University Press, 2001), Women’s Movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008 (University of Hawaii Press, 2012), The Filipino Migration...

E-mail
m.roces@unsw.edu.au
Location
359 Morven Brown

  • London Society of Antiquaries Janet Arnold Major Award for "A History of Colonialism, Dress and Luxury, 1850-2020", Sole Chief Investigator for 2021-2023
  • ARC Discovery Grant for "Buying Power: A History of Women as Consumers, 1902-2010", Sole Chief Investigator for 2017-2019
  • ARC Discovery Grant for "A History of Filipino Migration and Identity, 1906-2010", Sole Chief Investigator for 2012-2014
  • United States Studies Centre Grant for "The Filipino American Movement", 2010
  • ARC Discovery Grant for "A Recent History of Social Movements in the Philippines", Sole Chief Investigator for 2007-2009
  • Funded Fellowship, Center for East and Southeast Asia, University of Lund, Sweden, October-November 2014
  • Fully funded Fellowship, Southeast Asia Program, The University of Freiburg, Germany, June-July 2013
  • Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, University of Leiden, 2006 and 2010
  • Fully Funded Fellow, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2009

  • Winner of the NSW Premier's General History Prize in 2022 for The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021).
  • Winner of the Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence, 2013
  • Winner of the FASS Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award for 2012
  • Winner of the 2019 Grant Goodman Prize for scholarly excellence in Philippine history and historical studies given by the Association for Asian Studies USA (Roces was the first woman awarded in over 20 years)

 

  • Book Series Editor: Sussex Library of Asian Studies Series, Sussex Academic Press, 2006-present
  • Publications Officer for the Asian Studies Association of Australia, 2005-2014
  • Regional Editor for Southeast Asia, Asian Studies Review, 2009-2014
  • Executive Board, Philippines Project, ANU, 2016-2019
  • Editorial Board, Pacific Historical Review, 2016-2020

 

My Teaching

  • ARTS1210: Concepts of Asia
  • ARTS2212: Southeast Asia
  • ARTS904: Dressed to Kill: Dress and Identity in History
  • ARTS2909: Gender in South Asia and Southeast Asia

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