Faculty & Staff

Mary Bernadette Conde, Ph.D. candidate

Ph.D. candidate, Co-Chair of GenEd, Assistant Professor

Non-departmental General Education Faculty

Division of Arts, Humanities and Communication

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Mary Bernadette Conde is the Co-chair of the non-degree General Education program, an Assistant Professor, and the Director of the First-Year Seminar and Second-Year Seminar programs at the American University of Central Asia. She is a Ph.D. candidate in History from University of the Philippines (2000) and the University of Bremen (2002, Germany); and holds a Master of Arts in History (magna cum laude) (1998) and a Bachelor of Secondary Education in Social Studies (1990) from the University of the Philippines (Philippines).

Mary joined AUCA in 2004 as a part-time instructor in the American Studies department. She served as the Chair of the American Studies department (2006-2010), a Director of the First Year Seminar and Academic Orientation programs (2010-2012), a project member (2006-2009), and a project leader and coordinator (2009-2012) of the Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant at AUCA. Since 2004, she has been simultaneously working as an Assistant and Acting Associate Professor at the American Studies and General Education programs (2004-2014). She served as the Principal Investigator and Project Director of AUCA for the OSUN Collaborative Project (2022-2023) with Arizona State University and Al-Quds Bard College.

Mary served as a member of the Academic Senate (2010-2011), the chair of the Curriculum Development Committee (2010-2011), a member of the Faculty Research and Promotions Committee (2007-2010), and a member of the General Education and Liberal Arts Committee (a subcommittee of Strategic Planning Committee) (2009-2010) at AUCA. Currently, she is the Chair of the Faculty Senate.

Research Fellowship at Shinawatra (Metharath) University, Thailand, January 2024 - January 2027
Research Scholarship for Doctoral Dissertation, Research, and Study (June 2000-September 2002) German Academic Exchange Studies or Deutscher Academischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Exchange Study and Research for Doctoral Dissertation
Masters Thesis Research Fellowship, 1996-1998, given by the Philippine Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Research and Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, University of the Philippines, Quezon City
Undergraduate Full (Merit) Scholarship, 1985 – 1990, State Scholarship Program, University of the Philippines, Quezon City

19th- 20th Century Southeast Asian Regional Politics & History (ASEAN)
Central Asian & Southeast Asian Regional History, Politics & Education
Colonial Photography
Ethno-Photography and Historiography
Visual or image-based Research
Women Representations in Colonial Photography

Freedom and Responsibility, foreword and ed., An International Student Conference Proceedings on Freedom and Responsibility. [Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Project for AUCA] Kyrgyzstan: Triada Print, August 2012.
"Developing Central Asian Humanities." AUCA Magazine, Spring 2010. p. 13.
Ethno-photographie im kolonialen Kontext (Ethno-Photography in Colonial Context). Hamburg Verlag, Germany, 2005.
Buhay at Kaisipan ni Wenceslao Vinzons, 1910-1942, Life and Ideas of Wenceslao Vinzons. Office of the Research Coordination, U.P. Diliman 2000.
The 1998 Philippine Elections. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Philippines, 1999.
The Economic and Cultural Repercussions of American Imperialism, 1901-1913. A History of the Philippines. Center for Filipino Language, U.P. Diliman, 1999.
History and Consciousness. Limbagang Pangkasaysayan: Quezon City: Philippines, 1998. Neil Martial Santillan as Co-editor.
A Chronology of the History of Philippine Nationalism. Editor. A History 116 (Philippine Nationalism course), 1990. A Monograph.
"Tanglaw ng Kasaysayan", Ang Limang Pananaw sa Kasaysayan. (Historical Guide: Five Historiographical Perspectives in History). Contributor and Editor. (A Monograph on a Seminar in Historiography. 1995.
Legion De Veteranos Y Hijos De La Revolucion: A Glimpse on the History of KKK. A monograph published by Legion De Veteranos Y Hijos De La Revolucion, Inc. Bulaklakan, Lipa City, Batangas. February, 1997.

Conference papers:

(Re)Framing Knowledge-and-Skill-Building Production and Strategies Through Networked Education and Research in Central Asia (CESS, University of Pittsburgh, 2023)
Teaching during Covid Times: Experiences from, within, and about Central Asia-Musings and Meditations as if Zoom Pedagogy Matters (CESS, 2021)

English Composition for Liberal Arts I & II (Fall/Spring)
First Year Seminar: English for Liberal Arts I & II (Fall/Spring)
Second Year Seminar: From History to Hollywood: Topics in Films (Fall/Spring)
Second Year Seminar: Understanding and Writing About Cinema (Fall)