Adrian De Leon
PhD Program
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Adrian De Leon studies race, indigeneity, and industrial capitalism in the Philippines and its transpacific diasporas. After graduating with an Honours BA in English Literature at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Adrian began a direct-entry PhD program in the Department of History, under the supervision of Daniel Bender and Takashi Fujitani. His dissertation project, “In the Image of Industry: Northern Luzon and the Making of Filipino America” investigates how Spanish and American imperial practices of capitalist development in Luzon's agricultural lowlands and mountain ranges shaped notions of indigeneity, national belonging, and diasporic ethnicity between the 19th and early 20th centuries. A segment of this project, which details a labor history of ethnological visuality in Luzon’s Mountain Provinces, is forthcoming in Radical History Review (2018). Adrian De Leon studies race, indigeneity, and industrial capitalism in the Philippines and its transpacific diasporas. After graduating with an Honours BA in English Literature at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Adrian began a direct-entry PhD program in the Department of History, under the supervision of Daniel Bender and Takashi Fujitani. His dissertation project, “In the Image of Industry: Northern Luzon and the Making of Filipino America” investigates how Spanish and American imperial practices of capitalist development in Luzon's agricultural lowlands and mountain ranges shaped notions of indigeneity, national belonging, and diasporic ethnicity between the 19th and early 20th centuries. A segment of this project, which details a labor history of ethnological visuality in Luzon’s Mountain Provinces, is forthcoming in Radical History Review (2018).
Research Interest
History
