Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

The Asian Center Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

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The Asian Center welcomes two new faculty members, Dr. Marina Fe B. Durano and Dr. Cecilia T. Medina, who were recently appointed Assistant Professor and will start teaching courses on Asian and Philippine Studies in August 2014. 

Prior to her appointment at the Asian Center, Dr. Durano was Assistant Professor at the UP School of Economics where she handled the courses on Macroeconomics, Development Economics, and Philippine Economic History. She finished her M.A. in Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and her Ph.D. in Economics at The University of Manchester. She held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2011, and was also an Executive Committee Member of the Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) from 2008 to 2012.

Photo: Dr. Marina Fe B. Durano. Courtesy of the UP School of Economics website. 

Next month, Dr. Durano will receive an “Outstanding Book Award” for co-authoring a book, “2012/2013 Philippine Human Development Report: Geography and Human Development” along with Dr. Toby Monsod and Dr. Emmanuel de Dios. The award will be given by the National Academy of Science and Technology at their Annual Scientific Meeting in July 2014. View her complete faculty profile here.

Also joining the Asian Center is Dr. Cecilia T. Medina who was Faculty Research Coordinator at St. Paul University in Quezon City. She finished her M.A. in Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and her Ph.D. in Sociology in Xavier University-Cagayan de Oro. 

Dr. Medina has extensively studied popular religiosity and indigenous peoples and cultures in the Philippines. Her published articles in journals include "Social and Environmental Factors in the Manobo Ancestral Domain Claim in Quezon, Bukidnon" (2011), "The Higaonon's Beliefs, Rituals and Leadership in Claiming Ancestral Domain" (2009), and "Popular Religiosity in the Philippines" (1999). She has also published research on the Manobos, on the children of overseas Filipino workers, and landlessness in a Pampanga village. 

You may view Dr. Medina's complete faculty profile here.