New faculty hire in South & Southeast Asian Studies conducts research on the Philippines

Lisandro Claudio has recently joined the UC Berkeley faculty as Assistant Professor of South & Southeast Asian Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne. He was on the faculty of De La Salle University in Manila prior to his move to Berkeley. His research focus is on modern history and political change in Southeast Asia, specifically in the Philippines. His publications include Taming People's Power: The EDSA Revolutions and their Contradictions (Ateneo De Manila University Press, 2014) and Liberalism and the Postcolony: Thinking the State in 20th-Century Philippines (National University of Singapore Press, 2017), which won the Association of Asian Studies George McT. Kahin Prize in 2019 for distinguished work beyond a scholar’s first book.