Brandon J. Reilly teaches East Asian, Southeast Asian, US, and world history. He received his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from UCLA. He is a member of the Ethnic Studies Task Force, the Global Citizenship Committee, and previously the Curriculum Committee. He has served as faculty advisor to BURSA (Burmese Student Association), LINK (Liberty in North Korea), the Filipino Club, and the Small Gov Club. He publishes widely on the cultural history of the global Philippines and the Mariana Islands. He is currently the Treasurer of the Filipino Cultural School, a K-12 cultural educational organization in Southeast Los Angeles. More about him can be found on his personal website: brandonjreilly.com (opens in new window) . He lives in Artesia, CA with his partner and two sons.
The UCLA Center for Southeast Aian Studies completed a profile (opens in new window) about Prof. Reilly and his work. See also the recent interview he did for the television
show Your California Life
(opens in new window) for the occasion of Filipino American History Month, 2023.
Books
The Epochs of Epics in the Philippines: A Cultural History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First. Book manuscript in preparation.
Tinipong Tinig ng Kababaihan (An Anthology of Women’s Voices): Priestesses to Presidents, co-edited with Nenita Pambid Domingo. Forthcoming from the University of the Philippines Press.
Journal Articles
“The Self-Liberated Slave Periquillo Saves the Missionary Juan Pobre: Blackness, Indigeneity, and the Origins of the Black Pacific.” (opens in new window) Forthcoming in the Journal of Pacific History.
“Oceanic Activism: A Talanoa on Land, Love, and Resistance.” (opens in new window) Co-authored with Juliann Anesi, Alfred Peredo Flores, and Kēhaulani Vaughn. Okinawan Journal of Island Studies 4 (Mar. 2023): 156-62
- Timeline of Manuel's Life
(opens in new window) , 31: 86-89 - Manuel Unfinished, 1986-2003 (opens in new window) , 31(2023): 65-84
- Manuel and Marcos, the late 1960s-1986 (opens in new window) , 31: 44-64
- Manuel Seeds the Field and Attends the University of Chicago, 1955-1960s (opens in new window) , 31: 19-43
- Manuel Becomes an Anthropologist, 1945-55 (opens in new window) , 31: 1-18
- Manuel’s Early Career to Life during the Pacific War, 1927-45 (opens in new window) , 32 (2023): 90-110
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“E. Arsenio Manuel: His Early Life and Childhood, 1909-1927.”
(opens in new window) 29 (2021): 149-170.
“(Re)centering ‘Pacific Islanders’ in Trans-Pacific Studies: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Critique, and Reflections from the Diaspora.” (opens in new window) Co-authored with Juliann Anesi, Alfred P. Flores, Christen Sasaki, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Joyce Pualani Warren. Critical Ethnic Studies 7:2 (Spring 2021).
“Reproductive Anticolonialism: Placental Politics, Weaponised Wombs, and the Power of Abjection in the Early Spanish Mariana Islands.” (opens in new window) Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific 44 (Apr. 2020).
“Imaginable as Other: The Representation of Muslims in Zaide and Zaide's Philippine History and Government and Agoncillo's History of the Filipino People.” (opens in new window) Mindanao Forum 24:1 (2011): 43-67.
Book Chapters
“Introduction” and “The Voice of the Baylan: Recollecting the History of a Lost Philippine Feminine Repertoire.” Book chapters in Tinipong Tinig ng Kababaihan (above).
“Epics in the Early Spanish Philippines Revisited.” (opens in new window) In Nicole Revel, ed., Songs of Memory in Islands of Southeast Asia (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). Pp. 279-292.