Professor Rey Ileto
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Adjunct Professor, Centre for Asian Societies and Histories |
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Dr Rey Ileto [BA(Ateneo de Manila); MA, PhD(Cornell); Adjunct Professor and formerly Reader in the Center for Asian Societies and Histories] is a specialist in the history, politics and culture of the Philippines.
His publications include two prize-winning books: Filipinos and their Revolution: Event, Discourse, Historiography (Honolulu and Manila, 1999); and Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910 (Quezon City, 1979, 5th printing 1998). He also authored Knowing America's Colony: A Hundred Years after the Philippine War (Honolulu, Philippine Studies Program, 1999); Magindanao, 1860-1888: The Career of Datu Uto of Buayan (Ithaca, 1971); 'Religion and Anticolonial Movements in Southeast Asia' in N. Tarling (ed.), The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (Cambridge, 1992); and, (ed. With R.J. Sullivan) Discovering Australasia: Essays on Philippine-Australian Interactions (Townsville, 1993).
He is a member of the Philippine Studies Association of Australia; the Association of Asian Studies (U.S.); and the Asian Studies Association of Australia. In August 2001, he became Professor of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.
In 2003 Professor Ileto was honoured with the award of the Academic Prize Laureate 2003 Fukuoka (Asian Culture) Prize by the Fukuoka Prize Secretariat of Japan.