Panelists: Cesi Cruz (UCLA), Marco Garrido (University of Chicago), Ambeth Ocampo (Ateneo de Manila University and the University of Michigan. Moderated by Deirdre de la Cruz (University of Michigan).

Cesi Cruz is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Cruz works on topics at the intersection of political science and economics, with a focus on how information and social networks affect electoral incentives and economic outcomes.

Marco Garrido is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago. Professor Garrido's research focuses on democracy, corruption, urbanization, segregation, social inequality, populism, and social transformations in the Global South and Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Singapore.

Ambeth R. Ocampo is a public historian whose research covers the 19th-century Philippines—its art, culture, and the people who figure in the birth of the nation. Professor and former chairman of the Department of History at the Ateneo de Manila University, Professor Ocampo writes “Looking Back,” the longest-running editorial page column on history for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Professor Ocampo is H.V. Dela Costa Professor in History and the Humanities at the Ateneo de Manila University and visiting professor of Southeast Asian studies at the University of Michigan.

Deirdre De La Cruz is an associate professor of Southeast Asian studies and history at the University of Michigan. Professor De La Cruz is a historian and cultural anthropologist of the Philippines with an interest in the transformation of religious sensibilities, beliefs, and phenomena in modernity.

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