Publications
Books
2025
Aligned Rivalries: The Sino-Soviet Split in the Periphery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, under contract.
2023
Association of Asian Studies
First Book Subvention Award (2021)
{Order from Cornell University Press}
{Order from Ateneo de Manila University Press}
The Drama of Dictatorship: Martial law and the Communist Parties of the Philippines. Ithaca: Cornell University Press / Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Journal Articles
2023
“A Region in Dispute: Racialized Anti-Communism and Manila’s Role in the Origins of Konfrontasi, 1961-63.” Modern Asian Studies, 1-23. {abstract}
2022
“A Deliberately Forgotten Battle: The Lapiang Manggagawa and the Manila Port Strike of 1963.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 53, no. 1-2, 226-251. {abstract}
2021
“Cadre as Informal Diplomats: Ferdinand Marcos and the Soviet Bloc, 1965-1974.” History and Anthropology, 1-17.{abstract}
Zhou, T. and Joseph Scalice. “Reinvented Revolutionaries: Indonesian and Filipino Communist Exiles in China.” Diplomatic History 45, no. 3, 643-655.{abstract}
“‘We Are Siding with Filipino Capitalists’: Nationalism and the Political Maturation of Jose Ma. Sison, 1959-61.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 36, no. 1, 1-39.{abstract}
“The Geopolitical Alignments of Diverging Social Interests: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, 1966-67.” Critical Asian Studies 53, no. 1, 45-70.{abstract}
2018
“A Planned and Coordinated Anarchy: The Barricades of 1971 and the ‘Diliman Commune.’” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 66, no. 4, 481-516.{abstract}
“Pamitinan and Tapusi: Using the Carpio Legend to Reconstruct Lower-Class Consciousness in the Late Spanish Philippines.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 49, no. 2, 250-276.{abstract}
“Reynaldo Ileto’s Pasyon and Revolution revisited, a critique.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 33, no. 1, 29-58.{abstract}
Book Chapters
2023
“Cadre as Informal Diplomats: Ferdinand Marcos and the Soviet Bloc, 1965-1974.” In Strongman’s Brokers: Old Diasporas and New Networks in the Age of Populism, edited by Serkan Yolacan, Ameem Lufti, and Nisha Mathew, London: Routledge.
2010
“Marxism and Philippine Theology.” In Marxism in the Philippines: Continuing Engagements, edited by Laura L. Samson and Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Manila: Anvil Publishing, 191-213.
Book Reviews
2024
“William Chapman, Inside the Philippine Revolution: The New People’s Army And Its Struggle for Power, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 39, no. 1, 216-220.
2021
“Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912, Columbia University Press, 2020.” Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 36, no. 2, 340-343.
Essays
2025
“One hundred twenty-six years since the launching of the Philippine American War: Trump, McKinley, and US imperialism in Asia.” World Socialist Web Site, 20 February.
2022
“A sideways imagining: Revisiting region in Southeast Asia.” LSE Southeast Asia Blog, 13 October.
Selected Newspaper Articles
2022
“Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines, dies aged 83.” World Socialist Web Site, 29 December.
“The election of Marcos in the Philippines and the death rattle of democracy.” World Socialist Web Site, 10 May.
“How Ferdinand Marcos’ 1965 election campaign turned Central Luzon into a war zone.” Rappler, 5 March.
“The enthusiasm of despair and the rise of Ferdinand Marcos Jr in the Philippines.” World Socialist Web Site, 26 February.
2021
“What are the real political lessons of the Diliman Commune?” Rappler, 5 February.
Poetry
2023
Honorable Mention
2023 Common Ground Annual Poetry Contest
“Overhearing your native tongue in a foreign land.” Common Ground, Summer.
“Tarlac.” The Banyan Review, Summer.
