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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)

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