DIRECTOR
Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu
Dr. Saloma-Akpedonu, Associate Professor of Sociology and concurrently Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, obtained her doctorate in Sociology (2002) from Universitaet Bielefeld in Germany, her M.A. in Population Science (1994) from Peking University in the People's Republic of China, and her B.A. in Sociology (1991) from the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her professional responsibilities include being President of the Philippine Sociological Society and Secretary of the Board of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Science and Technology of the International Sociological Association. She was awarded the 2007 National Academy of Science and Technology "Outstanding Young Scientist" in the field of Sociology. She is the author of "Possible Worlds in Impossible Spaces: Globality, Gender, Knowledge and Information Technology in the Philippines (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006). She is the Project Director of IPC 297 (Preserving and Protecting Philippine Heritage Architecture) and IPC 298 (Understanding Social Change).
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR RESEARCH
Ma. Elizabeth Macapagal
Dr. Macapagal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of
Ateneo de Manila University. She received her M.A. in Social Psychology from the
Claremont Graduate University and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Ateneo de
Manila University. She has published books and articles on general psychology, people
power, peace and political psychology, and gender socialization. She was former chair of
the Ateneo Psychology Department and a former member of the Board of Directors of the
Psychological Association of the Philippines.
RESEARCH SCIENTIST
Dr. Mary Racelis
Dr. Racelis (formerly Hollnsteiner) is former IPC Director, as well as Senior Professorial
Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University. She has published extensively in the areas of poverty and well-being, urbanization, community
organizing and people's empowerment, civil society, gender, children and youth, education, and socio-cultural change. Her close interaction with community based NGOs and People's Organizations over many years and her service on several local and international NGO boards has given her the informal title of "activist social scientist." In 1975, De La Salle University awarded her a Doctorate in the Social Sciences, honoris causa, while the Ateneo de Manila University conferred on her the doctorate in humanities, honoris causa, in 2003. In 2004, the Consuelo Foundation gave her the Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Erik Akpedonu
Cynthia C. Veneracion
Fernando Nakpil-Zialcita
Dr. Zialcita has an M.A. in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Hawaii. He is Full Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University and heads the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at the same. Though from Manila, much of his field research took place among farming communites in the Ilocos, Northern Luzon. Lately, however, he has shifted his focus to street research because of his interest in urban heritage and regeneration. Indeed he is active in groups advocating the preservation of built heritage. Though interested in the Hispanic World, he has also explored the world of Southeast Asia. He thus writes on the interface between the Southeast Asian and the Hispanic worlds in domains of Filipino culture such as traditional architecture, cookery and popular Christianity. He is the Project Director of IPC 297 (Preserving and Protecting Philippine Heritage Architecture).
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Ma. Nenita Adan
Lorraine Mangaser
Ria Rivera
OFFICE ASSISTANT
Joanna Blancaflor