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Vitae of Dr Rene D Somera 1999 SEAMEO-Jasper Fellowship Awardee |
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Male | |
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Filipino | |
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7 January 1956 | |
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Married, with two children | |
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Block 2, Lot 10 Quezon St. Malacanang Village, Paranaque Metro Manila, Philippines Tel: (63-2) 821-5607 |
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Behavioural Sciences Department De La Salle University 2401 Taft Avenue Manila, Philippines Tel/Fax: (63-2) 524-46-11 to 26, loc. 550 |
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Regional Winner and Awardee, SEAMEO-Jasper Fellowship Award for Best Research Study, "Older Persons and their Caregivers: Stroke as a Critical Life Event in the Filipino Family", awarded by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO); the SEAMEO-Jasper Award, an annual research competition, comes from an endowment fund contributed by the Government of Canada to SEAMEO on the occasion of SEAMEO’s silver anniversary. Reward package includes a lecture tour to Canada (one month) and selected SEAMEO countries (20 days). | |
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Miguel Febres Cordero Research Awardeet, De La Salle University- Manila; winning work is BORDERED AGING: Ethnography of Daily Life in a Filipino Home for the Aged (De La Salle University Press, 1997); the Miguel Febres Cordero Award is an annual recognition given by the University to faculty members as incentive for quality research output. Reward package includes a monthly stipend equivalent to a professorial chair, $1000 support for an international conference, $100 membership subsidy for membership in a national or international organization, URCO (Univ Research Coordination Office) support for two research projects. | |
| Education | ||
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PhD Anthropology (Sociocultural), Dept of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA | |
| Dissertation title: Invisible Kin: Everyday Experience of Aging in a Manila Home for the Aged | ||
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Certificate in Gerontology, Cognate in Aging Program, Graduate School, Michigan State University | |
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MA Anthropology, Dept of Anthropology, Michigan State University | |
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Completed doctoral enrichment program in Anthropology, Dept of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, (under the auspices of a Fullbright-Hayes scholarship) | |
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Completed academic coursework for PhD in Philippine Studies (Anthropology, Sociology, Literature as cognate areas), University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines | |
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MA Philippine Studies (interdisciplinary program; Anthropology, Sociology and Literature as 3 areas), University of the Philippines | |
| Thesis title: The Socio-Anthropological Dynamics of Ilocano Immigrant Experience in Hawaii, USA | ||
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AB Communication Arts (Writing), University of the Philippines at Los Ba?os, College, Laguna, Philippines | |
| Academic and Research Interests | ||
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| Working Experience | ||
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Chairperson, Behavioural Sciences Dept, College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines | |
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Associate Professor, Behavioural Sciences Dept, College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines | |
| Undergraduate courses taught: Introduction to Sociology (INTROSO), Introductory Anthropology (ANTHROP), Theories in Anthropology (HISTSO2), Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines (ANTHRO2), Communication and Culture (CULTCOM), Religion and Culture (SEMSOAN) | ||
| Graduate courses taught: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health Care (XSOCUHE), Philippine Society and Culture (XPHISOC), Introduction to Health Social Science II (XHSOSC2), Religious Anthropology (XRELIAN), Institutions in Health Development (XINHEDE) | ||
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Research Associate, Social Development Research Centre, College of Liberal Arts, De La Salle University | |
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Adjunct Asst. Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston, Victoria, Houston, Texas, USA | |
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Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychology, Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia, USA | |
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Instructor, Dept of Anthropology, Michigan State University | |
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Research Assistant, Dept of Family and Child Ecology, Michigan State University | |
| (collaborator in a retirement research project, with a focus on pre-retirement programming; developed a research proposal, from library research to field data-gathering to report writing; funded by Michigan State University Foundation) | ||
| Consultancy Experience | ||
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Consultant/Writer, Philippine Plan of Action for Older Persons, 1999-2004, Initial draft prepared for DSWD’s Programs and Special Projects Bureau, Batasan Hills, Quezon City | |
| (consolidated data materials from published researches, line agencies’ reports, UN sources, and multi-sectoral discussion highlights in several writeshops conducted by DSWD for this purpose) | ||
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Consultant, The Continuing Education of the Elderly, Congressional Oversight Committee on Education (COCED), ISMED Bldg., UP Diliman | |
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Consultant, Associate Dean’s Office, College of Arts and Sciences, Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA | |
| (developed a proposal for a Cultural Studies program; designed anthropology courses for new curriculum: Ethnographic Research, Cross-cultural Psychology, Introduction to Cultural Studies) | ||
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Consultant, Golden Acres (Home for the Aged and Infirm), Bago Bantay, Quezon City | |
| (gerontological consultant in the following areas: social services, adult educational programs, elderly fitness, cultural activities; I was also a graduate student doing doctoral dissertation research at this time) | ||
| Research Experience (On-going and Completed) | ||
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Principal Investigator, Older Persons and their Caregivers: Stroke as a Critical Life Event in the Filipino Family; funded by the Essential National Health Research Program (ENHR), Dept of Health; grant amount: Php 798,589.00 | |
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Principal Investigator, University Research Coordination Office (URCO) grant, De La Salle University, Successful Aging: Indicators and Prospects for a Pre-retirement Planning Program in the Academe, grant amount: Php 19,800.00 | |
| Project Director, Senior Citizens’ Data Project, Phase 1, data encoding and processing project, subcontracted by the Dept of Social Welfare and Development, Bureau of Disabled Persons’ Welfare (BDPW) to Aging Studies program, SDRC, grant amount: P 87,000 (Phase II forthcoming) | ||
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Project Director & Newsletter Editor, Support for Newsletter Advocacy for Federation of Senior Citizens Associations of the Philippines (FSCAP) supported by CDF of former Senator Edgardo Angara, principal author of Senior Citizens’ Act or RA 7432; a newsletter devoted to the needs and concerns of members of the Federation of Senior Citizens’ Associations of the Philippines (FSCAP), grant amount: Php 1,000,000 (ongoing) | |
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Philippine Social Sciences Council (PSSC) doctoral dissertation grant, Discretionary Research Awards Program, On Being and Becoming Old in the Philippines, grant amount: Php 10,000. (This research later became the basis for my doctoral dissertation in Anthropology) | |
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Research Associate, Pre-retirement Planning in a Changing Context, Michigan State University (MSU) Foundation, Barbara Ames (Principal Investigator), Institute for Family and Child Study, College of Human Ecology, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA | |
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Research Assistant and Interviewer, Supportive Ecosystems for Older Persons their Families, AARP ANDRUS Foundation, Barbara Ames (Principal Investigator), Institute for Family and Child Study, College of Human Ecology, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA | |
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Data Encoder, Children’s Attitudes Towards Sex in Television (CAST Project) Bradley Greenberg (Principal Investigator), Dept of Telecommunication, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA | |
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Data Encoder and FGD Facilitator, Violence in Television, Bella Moody (Principal Investigator), Dept of Telecommunication, MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA | |
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Principal Investigator, Between Two Worlds: The Socio-Anthropological Dynamics of Ilocano Immigrant Life in Hawaii, USA, Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC) Discretionary Research Grant, UP Diliman, College of Arts and Sciences, (This research later became the basis of my masteral thesis in Philippine Studies at UP. This study, through a travel grant from the Philippine Studies program of the University of Hawaii (enabling me to present a paper at the Second International Philippine Studies Conference in Honolulu in June 1981), allowed me to stay for three weeks in Hawaii to gather interview data among Ilocano oldtimers residing in plantation.) | |
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Research Assistant and Interviewer, Life among the Remontados, Paz Eulalia-Saplala (Principal Investigator), Dept of Humanities, College of Sciences and Humanities, University of the Philippines at Los Banos | |
| Conference/Colloquium Papers | ||
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Pilot-Testing a Carer’s Primer: Some Lessons on Carer Taxonomy and Contexts, paper presented at Aged Care: Great Expectations, Geriaction Conference, Duxton Hotel, Melbourne, Australia | |
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Carers who Need Caring: Elder-to-Elder Caregiving in the Filipino Family Context, paper presented at Women's Health, A Nation's Gain: A Special Focus on the Older Women of Asia, Westin Hotel, Singapore | |
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Stroke Research, ENHR 8th Anniversary Celebration, Isulong: Tuklas Pang-kalusugan, Dept of Health (DOH) Convention Hall, San Lazaro | |
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Full Circle: Coming of Age in Older Person Research, Inaugural Professorial Lecture, Chair of Health Social Science, College of Liberal Arts, Ariston Estrada Seminar Room, De La Salle University | |
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Older Persons and their Caregivers: Stroke as a Critical Life Event in the Filipino Family, ENHR Research Dissemination forum, Ariston Estrada Seminar Room, De La Salle University | |
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The Filipino People: An Ethnic Blend of East and West, a Power Point presentation during the Elderhostel Philippines Program, Ariston Estrada Seminar Room, De La Salle University | |
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Ethnographic Research: Trends in Qualitative Research, lecture delivered during the Thesis/Dissertation Advising Course, organized by the Asian Social Institute, Leon Guinto, Manila | |
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Youth and Older Persons, lecture delivered during the Layman’s Forum, organized by the Health Care Program for Older Persons (HCPOP), Dept of Health (DOH) Convention Hall | |
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Older Persons in a Changing Philippine Society, Resource Speaker and Discussant, Elderly Technical Lecture Series, organized by the Dept of Social Welfare and Development, DSWD Auditorium, Batasan Hills, Quezon City | |
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FSCAP Profile: Preliminary report of the DSWD Survey on the Filipino Elderly, a Power Point presentation during the Second National Elderly Congress of the Federation of Senior Citizens’ Associations of the Philippines or FSCAP, organized by the Dept of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Midtown Hotel, Manila | |
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Filipino Elderly Concerns: Of Disabilities, Drugs and Drives, paper read at the 5th Regional Conference of the Psychological Association of the Philippines, Central Luzon State University, Munoz, Nueva Ecija | |
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Unburdenings or Aged Talk: Life Stories of Indigent Elderly Filipinos paper read at the International Multidisciplinary Conference on Knowledge and Discourse, session on Ethnographic Perspectives, University of Hong Kong | |
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Institutional Ideology and Linguistic Ageism: Language, Context and Rights in a Home for the Aged, paper read at the International Conference on Language Rights, Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
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Resource speaker, Clients and Carers in a Home for the Aged: An Anthropologist’s Immersion and Assessment of Institutional Climate, Workshop/forum on Linkages for the Health of the Elderly Program, organized by Non-Communicable Disease Division, Dept of Health, held at Manila Manor Hotel | |
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Resource speaker, The Twilight of our Lives: Face to Face with the Elderly in Golden Acres and our Own Aging, talk before De La Salle University’s non-teaching staff, in preparation for the latter’s outreach activity in Golden Acres, LS219 | |
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Seminar speaker, Aging as Emic Experience and The Elderly as Role Models, Cultural Studies Seminar, De La Salle University | |
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Kinsfolk Invisible: Issues of Aging in the Philippines, Lecture delivered at Ariston Estrada Conference Room, De La Salle University, (First lecture in the seminar series, Emerging Health Issues at the Threshold of the 21st Century; sponsored by the MA Health Social Science graduate program, Dept of Behavioural Sciences, DLSU) | |
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Of Managers and Wards: Network Repair, Kin Denial and Social Work in a Manila Institution, paper read at the Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS) annual meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA | |
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Invisible Kin: Filipino Aging in a Bureaucratic Arena, Poster presentation, shown during the 92nd AAA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, USA | |
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Ethical Dilemmas in Ethnographic Research, Working Session on Ethics in Ethnography, 90th AAA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA | |
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Symbol in Sequence: Ritual Dynamics in Mount Banahaw, Philippines, paper read at the 1987 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA | |
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The Pilgrimage Motif in Religious Ritual, paper read at the Colloquium in Anthropology, Dept of Anthropology, Michigan State University | |
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Dynamics and Aesthetics of a Religious Ritual: The Case of the Mystic City of God, paper read at The Culture and Society Workshop, Fall 1985, University of Chicago | |
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Home is Where the Bride Is, paper read at the First Philippine Studies Conference, Philippine Social Science Centre (PSSC), Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines | |
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Hawaii Ilocanos in GUMIL Prize Stories, paper read at the Second International Philippine Studies Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii | |
| Publications | ||
| Book | ||
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Bordered Aging: Ethnography of Daily Life in a Filipino Home for the Aged (2nd edition). Manila: De La Salle University Press. 297 pp. (This book was nominated as a finalist for a National Book Award as the best social science book published in the Philippines in 1997) |
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Invisible Kin: Filipino Aging in a Bureaucratic Context (1st edition). In Book Series: Issues in Anthropology, Focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America, Mario D. Zamora, ed. New Delhi, India: Reliance Publishing House. 252 pp. | |
| Journal Articles | ||
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"Language, Context and Elderly Rights," BOLD: Journal of the International Institute on Ageing (INIA), United Nations-Malta, November issue, vol. 8, No. 1 | |
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"Directions for Filipino Social Gerontology: Anthropological Perspectives and Prospects," BOLD: Journal of the International Institute on Ageing (INIA), United Nations-Malta, August issue, vol. 6, No. 4 | |
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"Aging in an Evolutionary Perspective: The Verticality of the Cultural Inheritance System, Kaya-Tao, Journal of the Behavioural Sciences Dept, De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila. | |
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"Gyera Noon, Kudeta Ngayon," (Of Wars and Coups) Agelink Philippines, Vol II, 11-12, November-December. | |
| "Iba’t ibang Mukha ng Pagtanda," (The Various Faces of Ageing), Agelink Philippines, Vol III, March-April. | ||
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Review article, "Theatre in Society, Society in Theatre" (Resil Mojares),in PILIPINAS (A Journal of Philippine Studies), published by the Philippine Studies Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 12, Spring issue. | |
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Pamumuwesto of Mount Banahaw," Philippine Studies 34 (4th Quarter): 436-451. | |
| "Marriage and the Ilocano Oldtimer," Philippine Studies 34 (2nd Quarter): 181-199. | ||
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Review Article, "Salimbibig: Philippine Vernacular Literature," (Joseph Galdon, SJ, ed.), in Philippine Studies 33 (4th Quarter): 258 | |
| Membership in Professional Organization | ||
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Member, Pi Gamma Mu, International Honour Society in Social Science | |
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Founding Member, World Megalithic Association, convened in Seoul Korea | |
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Member, Philippine Sociological Society | |
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Member, American Anthropological Association (AAA); Cultural Anthropology | |
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Member, Ugnayang Pang-agham Tao (UGAT or Philippine Anthropological Society) | |
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Member, Philippine Health Social Science Association (PHSSA), | |
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Member, Phi Beta Delta, Honour Society for International Scholars, Michigan State University | |
| Training Programmes/Assemblies Attended | ||
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Participant and Founding Member, First International Assembly and Symposium, World Megalithic Association, Hotel Lotte, Seoul, Korea; travel sponsored by Korean Dolmen & Menhir Association | |
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Fellow, Session 357, "The Challenges of an Aging Society," Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria; awarded full travel and tuition benefits by the Salzburg Seminar Committee | |
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Philippine delegate, "International Short-term Course on Income Security for the Elderly in Developing Countries," awarded full scholarship by International Institute on Ageing (INIA), United Nations-Malta | |
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Participant, "Regional Short-term Course on Demographic Aspects of Population Ageing," organized by the International Institute on Ageing (INIA), Malta, and the University of the Philippines’ Population Institute (UPPI), Great Eastern Hotel, Quezon City | |
