STEPHEN B. ACABADO
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
https://philippinearchaeoanth.ss.ucla.edu/
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Anthropology, 2010, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Research interests: Historical ecology, landscape archaeology, agricultural systems, settlement patterns, emergent complexity, indigenous peoples, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam, Micronesia
M.A. Anthropology, 2003, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Thesis: Land Use and Agricultural Intensification: A GIS-Based Analysis of the Landscape of Ifugao, Northern Philippines.
B.A. Anthropology, 1999, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Professor (2023-present), Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Chairperson (2022-present), Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los
Angeles
Director (2021-present), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los
Angeles
Director (2021-present), Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia, University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor (2019-2023), Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor (2013-2019), Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2010-2013), University of Guam, Mangilao, GU
Instructor (2009-2010), Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Visiting Lecturer (2003-2004), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila
University, Quezon City, Philippines
Instructor (1999-2001), University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
VISITING AND OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2024-Present Professorial Chair Holder, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila
2021-2023 Visiting Professorial Lecturer, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila
2022-present Visiting Professorial Lecturer, National Chenchi University, Taiwan
2019-present International Faculty Affiliate, Partido State University, Goa, Camarines Sur, Philippines
2012-present Research Fellow, Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, Inc.
2012-present National Museum of the Philippines Research Associate
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTMENTS
2021-2022 GRI & NEH Scholar Selection Committee Member, Getty Scholars Program, Getty
Research Institute
2021-present Member, Humans Editorial Board
2021-present Member, American Antiquity Editorial Board
2021-present Member, Saysay: Bicol Studies Journal Editorial Board
2020-present Member, Scientific Steering Committee, iHOPE (Integrated History--and Future--of the
People on Earth)
2018-present Member, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Engaged Grant
Program Advisory Board
2016-present Member, Philippine Quarterly and Culture Editorial Board
GRANTS
2025 University of Hawaii-Manoa Subaward Amendment, Cambodia Closure Initiative, $82,622.65
2024 Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference Grant, $20,000.00
2024 Mountain Spirits Exhibit at the Fowler, Henry Luce Foundation, $300,000.00
2024 University of Hawaii-Manoa Subaward, Cambodia Closure Initiative, $902,836.00
2024 Philippine Studies Grant, Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, $18,000.00
2024 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Sicily,
$168,752
2023 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Belgium,
$188,533
2023 Southeast Asian Studies Now, Convening of the LuceSEA Initiative Grantees, Henry Luce
Foundation, $248,500
2023 Indigenous Communities in the Western Pacific: Strengthening Collaborations and Networks,
Henry Luce Foundation, $200,000.
2023 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Laos,
$229,482
2022 US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, UCLA Center for Southeast
Asian Studies, 2022-2026, $1,040,000
2022 US Department of Education Title VI Foreign Language Area Studies fellowships, UCLA Center
for Southeast Asian Studies, 2022-2026, $1,264,000
2022 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Belgium,
$189,176
2021 Early Modern Period Transitions in Southeast Asia: Environmental Dynamics, Social Change,
and Globalization. Henry Luce Foundation, Southeast Asia Initiative, 2021-2027, $740,000
2021 Research Collaboration & Academic Exchange: a co-creation initiative between Partido State University and US-based institutions, Commission on Higher Education (Philippines), $100,000
2021 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development Overseas Science Research Center (TPILSC) Project ($300,000), with PI Min-Cheng Kou (renewed)
2021 UC Berkeley - UCLA Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies: National Research Center, US
Department of Education, $110,501
2020 Webinar Series on the Future of Anthropology, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research, $4,900
2020 Special Grant (Engaged Research Webinar Series), The Henry Luce Foundation, $3,000
2020 EU Marie Sklodovska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange 2020-2024 Grant: Probing
the Genetic Diversity and Demographic History of Ancient Seafarers in ISEA and Oceania, from
Archaic Hominins to the Dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian Language Family, €2,042,400.00,
with PI Philipp Endicott.
2019 European Research Council Grant: PANTROPOCENE: Finding a pre-industrial, pan-tropical
‘Anthropocene’, €1,499,375, with PI Patrick Roberts)
2019 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology: The Challenge and Opportunity for Indigenous
Areas under the National Spatial Planning Act: A Study on the Epistemology and Methodology
of Indigenous Planning, NT$1,043,000.00, with PI Da-Wei Kuan
2019 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development Overseas Science Research Center (TPILSC) Project, $300,000, with PI Min-Cheng Kou
2018 National Geographic Society-Committee for Research and Exploration, $49,713
2018 Whiting Foundation Mini-Grant for Public Engagement, $5000
2018 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST): Dynamic Spatial Governance in the
Mountain Social-ecological System: Case Study of the Tayal Communities in the Watershed of Shih-Men Reservoir, with PI Da-Wei Kuan, NT$893,000 (renewed)
2018 Faculty Research Grant, UCLA Academic Senate, $6980
2018 Ahmanson Field Research Grant, $3000
2017 Faculty Research Grant, UCLA Academic Senate, $7960
2016 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST): Dynamic Spatial Governance in the
Mountain Social-ecological System: Case Study of the Tayal Communities in the Watershed of Shih-Men Reservoir, with PI Da-Wei Kuan, NT$685,000
2015 National Science Foundation-Research Experience for Undergraduates, Ifugao
Archaeological Project (Award # 1460665; $159,123) (2015-2017)
2015 Hellman Fellowship: Highland Responses to Spanish Colonialism ($25,000).
2015 Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA Diversity and Faculty Development ($10,000).
2015 Faculty Research Grant, UCLA Faculty Senate ($10,000).
2013 National Museum of the Philippines, Grant to Study a National Cultural Treasure: Ifugao
Archaeological Project ($17,500) (2013-2015)
2012 National Geographic Society-Committee for Research and Exploration Grant. Ifugao
Archaeological Project ($21,000).
2011 National Parks Service. Cultural Landscape Inventory and Interim Treatment Plan for Asan and
Agat Invasion Beaches, Guam ($77,217).
2011 National Parks Service. Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments on Known Archeological
Sites at War in the Pacific National Historical Park (Guam) and American Memorial Park (Saipan) ($30,000.00).
2011 Archeological Site Condition Assessments and Cave Inventories at War in the Pacific
National Historical Park (Guam) and American Memorial Park (Saipan) ($44,000.00).
2011 GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant for San Remigio, Cebu Archaeological Project.
2009 American Council of Learned Societies/Henry Luce Foundation Early Career Seminar,
Tarrytown, New York.
2009 Graduate Student Organization Travel Award, University of Hawaii.
2007 Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation
Fellowship ($28,000)
2007 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant: Landscapes and Self-
Organizing Systems: The Archaeology of the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Northern Philippines
($15,000)
2007 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai‘i.
2005 Dai Ho Chun Travel Grant, University of Hawai‘i.
2005 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai‘i.
2004 Teaching Assistantship, University of Hawai‘i.
2002 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai‘i.
2001 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (ACC), ACC New York and ACC Philippines (2001-2006)
2001 East West Center Degree Fellowship, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
AWARDS AND FELOWSHIPS
2024 Best Book in the Social Sciences, National Book Awards, Philippines. Plural Entanglements:
Philippine Studies. Ateneo de Manila University Press.
2022 Astor Fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2013 Faculty Excellence in Research, University of Guam.
2013 Faculty Excellence in Service, University of Guam.
2012 Faculty Excellence in Research, University of Guam.
2009 Ligaya Fruto Award, Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii.
2004 John F. Embree Award for Southeast Asian Anthropology, CSEAS, University of Hawai‘i.
MUSUEM-RELATED WORK
2004 Deputy Director for Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
2003 Visiting Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
2012 Archaeology Consultant, Lopez Memorial Museum, Philippines.
2012 Archaeology Consultant, Tayabas City Museum, Tayabas City, Quezon, Philippines.
2004 Deputy Director for Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines.
2003 Exhibit Curator, Baray: Water in Khmer Arts and Life. Metropolitan Museum of
Manila. Manila Philippines.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Program Coordinator, Luce Asian Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2009-2010.
Anth 151 (Emerging Humanity) and Anth 152 (Cultural Anthropology) TA Coordinator, Department of
Anthropology, University of Hawai‘I, 2005-2007.
Coordinator, Ayta Studies Center, University of the Philippines Extension Program in Pampanga, Clark
Field Pampanga, 2001.
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
2015-present. Key Personnel, Center for Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Studies, Local Knowledges, and Sustainable Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
2011-present. Research Affiliate, Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, Inc. (SITMo)
2010-present. Research Associate, National Museum of the Philippines
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2024-present. Highland Ecology and Agricultural Systems in Morocco
2020-present. Taiwan Indigenous Landscape and History Project (Project co-director)
2016-present. Bicol Archaeological Project: Spanish Contact. Camarines Sur, Philippines (Project
Director)
2012 Tayabas Archaeological Project, Tayabas City, Quezon, Philippines (Project Director)
2012 Saipan Paleohabitat Studies (Project Manager)
2011 San Remigio, Cebu (Philippines) Archaeological Project (Project Director)
2007-present. Ifugao Archaeological Project, Ifugao, Philippines (Project Director)
2003 Lower Mekong Archaeological Project Reconnaissance Survey, Takeo Province, Southern
Cambodia (crew chief), Supervisor: M. Stark.
2002 Highlands Archaeology of Thailand, Tham Lod, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand (crew member), Supervisor: R. Shocoondej.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED PERIODICALS
Joshua M. Ackerman, Theodore Samore, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Tom R. Kupfer, Soyeon Choi, Wilson N. Merrell, Lene Aarøe, Toivo Aavik, Stephen Acabado, Grace Akello, Ilham N. Alfian, Laith Al-Shawaf, Marinés M. Alvarez, Jeanine Ammann, Gizem Arikan, Saiyeda A. Asha, Anibal M. Astobiza, Pat Barclay, Fiona Kate Barlow, Lisiane Bizarro, Paola Bressan, Andres Castellanos-Chacón, Bryan K.C. Choy, Achmad Chusairi (...) Iris Žeželj. 2025. I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020.
Acabado, S., J. Humiwat-Dulnuan, and M. Martin. 2025. The Ifugao Indigenous People’s Education
Center: Pioneering Community-led Heritage Conservation. Journal of Social Sciences and
Philosophy, 37: 1-25, DOI: 10.53106/1018189X202401101
Meyer-Lorey, R. and S. Acabado. 2024. Manifest Destiny in Southeast Asia: Archaeology of American
Colonial Industry in the Philippines, 1898-1987. American Antiquity
https://doi:10.1017/aaq.2024.24
Acabado, S., and M. Martin. 2024. Older Is Not Necessarily Better: Decolonizing Ifugao History through
the Archaeology of the Rice Terraces. Land 13(2):237. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13020237
Findley, D.M., S. Acabado, N. Amano, A.U. Kay, R. Hamilton, G. Barretto-Tesoro, G.
Bankoff, J. O. Kaplan, and P.R. Roberts. 2022. Land Use Change in a Pericolonial Society: Intensification and Diversification in Ifugao, Philippines Between 1570 and 1800 CE. Frontiers in Earth and Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.680926
Acabado, S. and M. Martin. 2021. Ifugao Indigenous History. Filipinas Journal of the Philippine Studies
Association, Inc. 2021: 26-46.
Madeleine Yakal, Mikhail Echávarri, Earl John Hernandez, Adam Lauer, Robin Meyer-Lorey, Chin-hsin Liu, Queeny Lapeña, Fr. Don Federico, Fr. Eric Bobis, Francisco A. Datar, Jared M. Koller, Thomas A.
Wake, Stephen Acabado. 2021. The Bicol Archaeological Project: Results of the Investigations in
Quipayo, Camaligan, and Bombon, Camarines Sur, 2016–2019. Saysay: The Journal of Bicol History 1(1): 1-37.
Ornob Alam, Rafal M Gutaker, Cheng-chieh Wu, Karen A Hicks, Kyle Bocinsky, Cristina Cobo Castillo, Stephen Acabado, Dorian Fuller, Jade A d’Alpoim Guedes, Yue-ie Hsing, Michael D Purugganan. 2021.
Genome analysis traces regional dispersal of rice in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Molecular Biology and Evolution, msab209, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab209
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Community-led
Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3):1-15, DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767383
Acabado, S.B., J.M. Koller, C-h. Liu, A. Lauer, A. Farahani, G. Barretto-Tesoro, J.A. Martin, and J.A. Peterson. 2019. The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: A Local Response to the Spanish Conquest. Journal of Field Archaeology 44(3): 195–214.
Acabado, S. 2018. Zones of Refuge: Resisting conquest in the northern Philippine highlands through
environmental practice. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 52:180-195, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.005
M. Horrocks, S.B. Acabado, and J.A. Peterson. 2018. Plant Microfossil Results from Old
Kiyyangan Village: Looking for the Introduction and Expansion of Wet-field Rice (Oryza sativa) Cultivation in the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Philippine Cordilleras. Asian Perspectives 58(1): 1-18.
Acabado, S.B., M. Sanders, J.A. Peterson, M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2018. The Ifugao Archaeological Project, 2012-2017. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2): 1-14.
Pagulayan, R.D. and S.B. Acabado. 2018. A Diachronic Investigation of Old Kiyyangan’s Cultural
Deposits: A Comparison of Different Stratigraphic Layers. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2): 15-32.
Meyer-Lorey, R. and S.B. Acabado. 2018. Economic Intensification in Old Kiyyangan: Global
Interaction and Intra-Regional Trade Revealed through Trade Ceramics. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2): 33-48.
Acabado, S.B., G. Barretto-Tesoro, and N. Amano. 2017. Agricultural intensification, status
differentiation, and pottery production in precapitalist Kiyyangan, Ifugao, Philippines. Archaeological Research in Asia, doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.10.004.
Lapeña, Q. and S.B. Acabado. 2017. Resistance through rituals: The role of Philippine “native pig” (Sus
scrofa) in Ifugao feasting and socio-political organization. Journal of Archaeological Science:
Reports 13: 583-294.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and F. Datar. 2017. Ifugao Archaeology: Collaborative and Indigenous
Archaeology in the Northern Philippines. Advances in Archaeological Practice 5(1): 1-11.
Acabado, S.B. 2017. The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the "Unconquered" to Spanish
Conquest and Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 21(1): 1-26.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2016. The Sacred and the Secular: Practical Applications of Water Rituals
in the Ifugao Agricultural System. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and –National Studies of Southeast Asia 4(2), 307-327.
Eusebio, M., J. Ceron, S.B. Acabado, and J. Krigbaum. 2015. Rice Pots or Not? Exploring Ancient
Ifugao Foodways through Organic Residue Analysis and Palaeobotany. National Museum
Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 11-20.
Martin, M. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Community Participation in the Ifugao Archaeological Project.
National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 39-45.
Lauer, A. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Infant Death and Burial Practices in Late Prehistoric Kiyyangan
Village, Kiangan, Ifugao. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 31-38.
Peterson, J.A. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Did the Little Ice Age contribute to the emergence of rice terrace
farming in Ifugao, Philippines? National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 1-10.
Ledesma, C., N. Amano, and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Faunal remains from the Old Kiyyangan Village.
National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 21-30.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2014. Rethinking History, Conserving Heritage: Archaeology
and Community Engagement in Ifugao, Philippines. The SAA Archaeological Record, Nov. 2014, 14(5): 12-17.
Acabado, S.B. 2013. Defining Ifugao Social Organization: “House”, Field, and Self-Organizing
Principles in the Northern Philippines. Asian Perspectives 52(2): 161-189.
Acabado, S.B. 2012. The Ifugao Agricultural Landscapes: Complementary Systems and the
Intensification Debate. Journal Of Southeast Asian Studies 43(3): 500-522.
Acabado, S.B. 2012. Taro Before Rice Terraces: Implications of Radiocarbon Determinations,
Ethnohistoric Reconstructions, and Ethnography in Dating the Ifugao Terraces. In Irrigated Taro (Colocassia Esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological and Historical Perspectives, M. Spriggs, D. Addison, And P.J. Matthews (Eds).Senri Ethnological Studies. Vol (N.D.). National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka.
Acabado, S.B. 2010. Landscapes and the Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces:
Establishing Antiquity and Social Organisation. Hukay: Journal for Archaeological Research in Asia and the Pacific, 15: 31-61.
Acabado, S.B. 2009. A Bayesian Approach to Dating Agricultural Terraces: A Case from
the Philippines. Antiquity 83(2009): 801-814.
CHAPTERS IN OTHER JOURNALS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Acabado, S.B. and Marlon Martin. 2025. Introduction: Philippine Indigeneity. In More Indigenous than We Admit: Rethinking Encounters, Histories, and the Politics of Indigeneity. S. Acabado and M. Martin (eds.), pp. xv-xxxi. Quezon City: Vibal Publlishers.
Acabado, S.B. 2025. When the native is not Indigenous: Beyond Colonial Definitions of Indigeneity. In More Indigenous than We Admit: Rethinking Encounters, Histories, and the Politics of Indigeneity. S. Acabado and M. Martin (eds.), pp. 5-25. Quezon City: Vibal Publlishers.
D. Docot, S. Acabado, and C Camposano. Philippine Studies beyond the Capital. 2023. In Philippine
Studies Plural Entanglement, S. Acabado, C. Camposano, and D. Docot (ed). Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press (Feb. 2023)
G. Barretto-Tesoro and S. Acabado (2023). Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in Chronology
Building: Rejecting the Three-Age System in Philippine Archaeology. In Philippine Studies: Plural Entanglements, S. Acabado, C. Camposano, and D. Docot (eds), pp. 29-56. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Acabado, S.B., A. Lauer, and M. Martin. 2021. Community Engagement and Cultural
Heritage in Southeast Asian Archaeology. In Handbook of Southeast Asian Archaeology, N.C. Kim and C. Higham (eds), pp. 874-896. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Acabado, S.B. and D-w. Kuan. 2021. Indigenous Peoples: Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific. In
Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment, edited by Stephen Acabado and Da-wei Kuan, pp. 1-15. Milton Park and New York, Routledge.
Salvador-Amores, A., M. Martin., and S.B. Acabado. 2021. Expressive Cultures: Empowering
Cordillera (Philippines) Weavers through Textile Revitalization. In Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment, edited by Stephen Acabado and Da-wei Kuan, pp. 72-89. Milton Park and New York: Routledge.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2021. Writing for the Public: Advancing a Meaningful Archaeological
Practice. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Insitute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 6-8.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2021. Archaeology and the Impermanence of Science. Backdirt: Annual
Review of the Cotsen Insitute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 88-9.
Acabado S.B. and D-w. Kuan. 2021. Landscape, Habitus and Identity: A Comparative
Study on the Agricultural Transition of Highland Indigenous Communities in Philippines and Taiwan. In Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond, edited by S. Shih and L. Tsai, pp. 139-161. Singapore: Springer.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Colonial Resistance through Political and Economic Consolidation:
The Short History of the Ifugao rice Terraces. In More Hispanic than we Admit 3: Quincentennial Edition, 1521-1820 Filipino and Spanish Interactions over Centuries, J. Mojaro (ed), pp. 407-422. Quezon City, Vibal.
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, E. Bobis, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the
Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 2). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(4): 33-37.
Acabado, S.B. 2020. Current Archaeological Practice in Southeast Asia: Collaboration,
Engagement, and Community Involvement in Field Research in Southeast Asia. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3), DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767370
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, M. Martin, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the
Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 1). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(3): 6-11.
Acabado, S. and E. Hsieh. 2020. East and Southeast Asia at the Age of Contact: Post-1500
Archaeology of Asia. In Handbook of Historical Archaeology, C. Orser, A. Zarankin, P. Funari, S. Lawrence, and J. Symonds (eds), pp. 698-711. New York, Routledge.
Acabado, S.B. and G. Barretto-Tesoro. 2020. Places, Landscapes, and Identity: Place Making in the
Colonial Period Philippines. In The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism (Amerind Studies in Archaeology), C. Beaule and J. Douglass (eds), pp. 200-221. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
M. Martin, S.B. Acabado, and R. Macapagal. 2019. Hongan di Pa'ge: The Sacredness and
Realism of Terraced Landscape in Ifugao Culture, Philippines. In Indigenous Perspectives on Living with Cultural Landscapes, J. Liljeblad and B. Verschuuren (eds.), pp. 167-179. London, Routledge.
Acabado, S. and M. Martin. 2018. The Ifugao Agroecological System: Bridging Culture and
Nature to Enhance Tropical Biodiversity. In Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Biodiversity: Integrating Natural and Cultural Diversity For Sustainability: A Global Perspective, N. Sanz (ed.), pp. 228-253. Mexico: UNESCO Mexico Office.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2015. Between pragmatism and cultural context: Continuity and change
in Ifugao wet-rice agriculture. In Water and heritage: Material, conceptual and spiritual connections. W. Willems and H. van Schaik (eds), pp. 275-297. Leiden: Sidestone Press Academic.
Acabado, S.B. 2015. Preface: The Ifugao Archaeological Project. National Museum Journal of Cultural
Heritage, 1(1): iii-v.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2015. Reports from the Field: The Ifugao Archaeological
Project. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2015: 54-61.
Acabado, S.B. 2006. Water is Sacred; Water is Power; Water is Life: Water in Khmer Civilization. In Baray: Water in Khmer Arts and Life, edited by V. Manalo. Manila: Metropolitan
Museum of Manila.
BOOKS
Acabado S.B., C. Camposano, and D. Docot. Philippine Studies: Plural Entaglements (editors) (2023).
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2022. Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines: Decolonizing Ifugao
History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Acabado S.B. and D-w. Kuan (editors). 2021. Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in
the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment. Milton Park and New York: Routledge.
Acabado, S.B., K.C. Cordero, and A. Camacho. 2020. The Bahay Kubo: A Filipino Children’s Song (A
Picture Book). Naga City, Philippines: KC Cordero Savage Mind Publishing House
Acabado, S.B. 2015. Antiquity, Archaeological Processes, and Highland Adaptation: The Ifugao Rice
Terraces. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
DISSERTATION
Acabado, S.B. 2010. The Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Antiquity and Social Organization. Phd Dissertation, University of Hawaii.
MA THESIS
Acabado, S.B. 2003. Landscapes and Agricultural Intensification: GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao Landscape, Northern Philippines. MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University
of Hawaii.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITOR
Acabado, S.B. (guest editor) 2020. Special Issue, Current Archaeological Practice in Southeast
Asia: Collaboration, Engagement, and Community Involvement in Field Research. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage Vol 7 (3)
Acabado, S.B. (guest editor). 2018. The Ifugao Archaeological Project: Student Papers. Philippine
Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2).
Acabado, S.B. (guest editor) 2015. Ifugao Archaeology Project. National Museum Journal of Cultural
Heritage 1(1).
BOOK REVIEW
2020 Heritage Movements in Asia: Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics and Identity, by Ali
Mozaffari and Tod Jones. New York and London: Berghahn Books, 2020. International Journal of Asian Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591420000571
2015 Pigs and Persons in the Philippines: Human-Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Ritual, by Remme, Jon Hendrik Ziegler. Anthropos 110.2015: 655-656.
2014 Ceramic Production and Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Philippines, A.D. 500 to
1600, by Lisa C. Niziolek. Dissertation Reviews 2014.
UNPUBLISHED
C. Calugay and S.B. Acabado. 2013. Archaeological Collection Catalog of the Lopez Memorial
Museum, Philippines.
PUBLIC-FACING PUBLICATIONS/PROJECTS
2025. S.B. Acabado. Not just a hangover cure. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-goto-filipino porridge-history-influences/, June 1, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. OFW: Love, wrapped and sent. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-story-overseas-filipinos-heritage-balikbayan-boxes/, May 18, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. A drunk history of the Philippines. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-drunk-history-philippines/, May 4, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. How Indonesian nutmeg built New York and reshaped the Philippines. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-indonesian-nutmeg-built-new-york-reshaped-philippines/, April 20, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. The stingray that time did not forget. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel kinunot-bicolano-dish-pagi-stingray-connection-past-present/, April 6, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. Filipinos came from Taiwan? We keep getting the Austronesian story wrong. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-filipinos-taiwan-origin-wrong-austronesian-story/, March 24, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. The truth about the Tasaday. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-truth-about-tasaday-indigenous-peoples/, Mar. 9, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. Put indigenous knowledge front and center in climate adaptation. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-opinion-put-indigenous-knowledge-front-center-climate-adaptation/, Feb. 16, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. Adobo, and why ‘authentic’ is overrated. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-adobo-why-authentic-overrated/, Feb. 10, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. The price of collecting without respect for culture. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-price-collecting-without-respect-culture/, January 28, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. How forest fires heal the land. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/, January 20, 2025
2024. S.B. Acabado. Hope from the past: Archaeology’s lessons for a sustainable future. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-hope-from-past-archaeology-lessons-sustainable-future/, December 29, 2024
2024. S.B. Acabado. How broken pots in the Philippines changed the way we study history. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-broken-pots-changed-way-study-philippine-history/, December 15, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, Piphal Heng, EJ Hernandez, and M. Quinto-Lising. It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”, Sapiens Magazine, https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/prehistory-deep-history-southeast-asia/, December 3, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Putting local voices at the center of academic research, Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-opinion-put-local-voices-at-the-center-academic-research/, December 1, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Retire those flawed theories on how people first arrived in the Philippines, Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-retire-flawed-stories-how-people-first-arrived-philippines/, November 17, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Rebuilding schools, other learning spaces after disasters. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-rebuilding-schools-other-learning-spaces-after-disasters/, November 3, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Past has some Good Lessons about Disaster Preparedness. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-past-good-lessons-disaster-preparedness/. October 24, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Indigenous Peoples Month Demands Real Action, not Just Symbolism. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/indigenous-peoples-month-demand-real-action-not-symbolism/. October 21, 2022.
2024. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and R. Rovillos. The Global Indigeneity Conference: Building Community Partnerships and Networks. Wenner-Gren Foundation Webnews, https://wennergren.org/article/the-global-indigeneity-conference-building-community-partnerships-and-networks. October 10, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Global Roots of Filipino Cuisine. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-global-roots-philippine-cuisine-dishes/, October 6, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Manilamen: Filipinos were in America before there was a USA. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-manilamen-filipinos-in-america-before-there-was-united-states/. September 28, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Anatomy of Spicy Laing. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-anatomy-spicy-laing/. September 15, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Ifugao’s Evolving Story as Birthplace of Philippine Anthropology. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-ifugao-evolving-story-birthplace-philippine-anthropology/. August 25, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. How to Truly Decolonize the Philippines’ Aducational System. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-truly-decolonize-education-system-philippines/. July 14, 2024
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Philippine Origins of Mezcal and Tequila Distillation. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-philippine-origins-mezcal-tequila-distillation-galleon-trade/. July 30, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. How to Truly Decolonize Philippine Education. Rappler time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-truly-decolonize-education-system-philippines/. July14, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Yamashita Treasure is a Myth, and Treasure Hunting is not Archaeology. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-yamashita-gold-myth-treasure-hunting-not-archeology/. June 16, 2024.
2024. Safeguarding the Ifugao Rice Terraces for future generations. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-safeguard-batad-ifugao-rice-terraces-future-generations/, May 26, 2024
2024. S.B. Acabado. Heritage for Whom? Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-heritage-for-whom/. May 5, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Was There a Philippine Kingdom named “Kalaga Putuan Crescent”? Rappler Time Travel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-was-there-philippine-kingdom-named-kalaga-putuan-crescent/. April 28, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Mentorship Matters. Rappler Time Travel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-mentorship-matters/. April 21, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Evolution and the Sneakiness of COVID. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-evolution-sneakiness-covid/. March 3, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. From the Apes to Adobo. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-from-apes-to-adobo-evolution/. February 1, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Return of Ancient Limestone Urns to the PH, the return of Dignity to Filipino Heritage. Rappler, https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-culture/return-ancient-cotabato-limestone-urns-dignity-filipino-heritage/, January 9, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. From Ancient Artifacts to Today’s Trash: Debunking Misconceptions about Archaeology. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-ancient-artifacts-trash-debunking-misconceptions-archaeology/, January 3, 2024.
2023. S.B. Acabado. There is more to Archaeology then Indiana Jones’ Pistol and Whip. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-more-archaeology-than-indiana-jones-pistol-whip/. December 11, 2023.
2023. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, G. Barretto-Tesoro, and E.J. Hernandez. Dispatching “Prehistory” for a more inclusive History. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-dispatching-prehistory-inclusive-history-indigenous-peoples/. Rappler, December 5, 2023.
2021. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and G. Lumauig. When the “Native” is not Indigenous. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-when-native-not-indigenous. Rappler October 13, 2021.
2021. S.B. Acabado. PH ‘Prehistory’: 500 Years of Indigenous Erasure. https://usa.inquirer.net/72363/ph-prehistory-500-years-of-indigenous-erasure. Philippine Daily Inquirer USA Edition, May 26, 2021.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Ifugao Myths Make Sense of the Archeological Finds https://usa.inquirer.net/61015/ifugao-myths-make-sense-of-archeological-finds. Philippine Daily Inquirer USA Edition, December 11, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. 2020. Saving Ifugao Weaving in the Philippines. SAPIENS. August 26, 2020. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ifugao-weaving/
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Monuments and the Power of Memory https://usa.inquirer.net/57041/monuments-and-the-power-of-memory. Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, July 20, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin [OPINION] The Ifugao, cowboys, and assimilation through education https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/266120-opinion-ifugao-cowboys-assimilation-through-education
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. [OPINION] Bakit walang forever? The impermanence of scientific knowledge https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/265274-opinion-impermanence-science-archeology. Rappler July 1, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] Bahay Kubo and the Making of the Filipino. https://www.rappler.com/voices/ispeak/opinion-bahay-kubo-making-filipino. Rappler June 26, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] An anthropologist on rethinking history to inspire the future. https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/264460-opinion-anthropologist-rethinking-history-inspire-future. Rappler June 22, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. A call for Philippine indigenous history, a call for inclusivity (https://usa.inquirer.net/55789/a-call-for-philippine-indigenous-history-a-call-for-inclusivity). Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, June 17, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and A. Burgos. The Old Kiyyangan Story: Oral Histories and
Archaeological Findings from the Old Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao, Philippines (An Animated Film) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwOHUnYr7w).
2019. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Demystifying the age of the Ifugao Rice Terraces to decolonize history (https://www.rappler.com/science-nature/society-culture/228067-demystifying-age-ifugao-rice-terraces). Rappler April 14, 2019.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Peterson, J., S.B. Acabado, and C. Ledesma. 2012. Archaeological Monitoring Report for Reconstruction
of Togcha and Talofofo Bridges on Route 4 along the East Coast of Guam. Prepared for Parsons Transportation Group and the Department of Public Works, Guam.
Acabado, S.B. 2012. Archaeological Documentation and Condition Assessment of Cultural Resources in
the American Memorial Park (AMME), CNMI and War of the Pacific (WAPA) units of the National Park Service.
Peterson, J., S.B. Acabado, and M. Carson. 2012. Protocol for Assessment of Vulnerability of Historic
Resources to Climate Change, War in the Pacific (WAPA), Guam, and American Memorial (AMME), CNMI units of the National Park Service.
Peterson, J., S.B. Acabado, and V. Cabrera. 2012. Archaeological Monitoring and Testing Investigations
for a Proposed New Construction at Ada Cliffside in Hagatna, Guam. Prepared for Ada Trust and Investment, Inc.
Peterson, J. and S.B. Acabado. 2012. Archaeological Monitoring in Support of Guam Territorial
Highway System Signage and Island Wide School Zone Signs Project. Prepared for Parsons Transportation Group (with John Peterson).
Acabado, S.B. 2012. The San Remigio Archaeological Project Excavations, San Remigio, Cebu,
Philippines. Submitted to the National Museum of the Philippines.
Acabado, S.B. 2007. Archaeology of the Banaue, Ifugao, Rice Terraces. Submitted to the National
Museum of the Philippines.
INVITED LECTURES
2025 Integrating Archaeology in Just Transition Through Indigenous Perspectives. Visiting
Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University,Disrupting, Decentering, and Defining: Locally-Grounded Models and Community-Engaged
Archaeology in Southeast Asia. Admiral David E. Jeremiah and Mrs. Connie Jeremiah Lecture
Series, University of Oregon, March 31, 2025.
2024 Integrating Archaeology in Just Transition Through Indigenous Perspectives. Visiting
Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, March 25, 2024.
2024 When “Prehistory” Doesn’t Cut It: Framing a More Inclusive Archaeology,
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2, 2024.
2023 The Integrative Power of Archaeology in Climate Research, Partido State University
(Philippines) Kuroshio Research Conference, Dec. 16, 2023.
2023 Bahay Kubo, the Quintessential Philippine Garden: Networks, Innovation, and
Foodways. Western Mindanao State University, Zamboanga, Philippines. July 21, 2023.
2023 On the edges of the Spanish Empire: the archaeology of resistance against conquest in the
northern highland Philippines. CSU-Fresno, April 12, 2023.
2022 The first decade of the Ifugao Archaeological Project (2012-2022): Findings and
Prospects. Ifugao State University, March 18, 2022.
2022 Indigenous Archaeology: Decolonizing Ifugao History. Chinese University of Hongkong,
March 4, 2022
2022 Demystifying Isolationist Models: Decolonizing History through Community Archaeology in the
Philippines, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, February 18, 2022.
2022 Colonialism without Colonization” the Dating of the Ifugao Rice Terraces. Polytechnic
University of the Philippines, February 17, 2022
2021 Indigeneity in the Philippines: When the native is not Indigenous. Northern Luzon and the
Cordillera in Regional Perspective: Identities, Interactions and Localizations, November 8-9, 2021, University of the Philippines-Baguio.
2021 Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Communities and Archaeological Practice in the
Philippines, School of Archaeology, Oxford University, November 1, 2021.
2021 Writing for the Public: Advancing a Meaningful Anthropological Practice. Bicol Foundation. For
Higher Education general Assembly, Partido State University, October 29, 2021.
2021 The Past is in the Present, The Present is in the Past: Demystifying Archaeological Practice.
Ugnayan at Talastasan: An Interdisciplinary Forum on the Social Sciences and Development. Polytechnic University of the Philippines. October 7, 2021.
2021 Older is not Necessarily Better: The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces. Pantopica Virtual
Seminar, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, September 1, 2021
2021 Keynote Address: Decolonizing History through Community Archaeology in the Philippines.
2021 Philippine Studies Association Conference, August 24, 2021.
2021 Conserving the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras: Community-led Initiatives and the
Ifugao Archaeological Project. The Cagayan Heritage Conversation Series, Cagayan Museum and
Heritage Conservation Center, August 9, 2021.
2021 Colonialism and Meta-Narratives in the Philippines: Decolonizing History through Community
Archaeology. Garrod Seminar, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge. May 26, 2021.
2021 Decolonizing History, Empowering the Future: Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines.
Festival Employee of Learning and Engagement, Simon Fraser University. May 19, 2021
2021 Isolationist Models and Colonialism: Rethinking Philippine History Narratives through
Ifugao Archaeology. Department of Anthropology, Tulane University. February 26, 2021.
2021 Food, Plants, and Transoceanic Trade: The Making of the Filipino Identity. Cornell Institute of
Archaeology and Material Studies, Cornell University. February 18, 2021.
2021 Indigenous Perspectives in Chronology Building: Rejecting the Three-Age System in Philippine
Archaeology. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Public Talk, February 5, 2021
2021 Food, Plants, and Transoceanic Trade: The Making of the Filipino Identity. Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Materials Studies, February 19, 2021
2020 Engaged Archaeology: Knowledge Co-Production in Ifugao, Philippines.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. 3, 2020.
2020 Collaboration and Involvement: Community-led Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines.
Pulong ng Bayan Community Program, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, Oct. 29, 2020
2020 Demystifying Philippine Historical Narratives. University of the Philippines Alumni Association
Greater Los Angeles, Oct. 31, 2020.
2020 Panel 1, Webinar Series: Engaged Research in the Asia Pacific, September 13, 2020.
2020 ICOMOS Philippines Webinar: When Communities Engage, July 7, 2020.
2020 SPAFA SESH Talks, Older is not Necessarily Better, the Dating of the Ifugao Rice
Terraces, July 8, 2020.
2020 Nayong Pilipino Foundation, Umpukan sa Nayon: “Telling a Heritage Story Part 2 –
Translating Heritage Stories in Philippine Archaeology,” June 5, 2020.
2020 Coopting Colonialism: The Archaeology of Philippine Indigenous History. College of
William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. February 25, 2020.
2019 Responses to Droughts and Warming in the Ifugao Highlands: The Resilient Ifugao
Agroecological System. Climate Change, Indigenous Resilience and Local Knowledge Systems: Cross-time and Cross-boundary Perspectives, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan. December 13-16, 2019.
2019 Landesque Capital or Cultural Perpetuation? Common Pool Resource in the midst of the Market Economy in Ifugao, Philippines. Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas-Austin, November 8, 2019.2018 Resisting Conquest through Environmental Practice: Indigenous Responses to Spanish
Colonialism. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 24, 2018.
2017 Keynote Address: Ifugao Archaeology: Linking Academic Discourse with Community Concerns.
Delivered at the Community Engagement, Research, and Student Training Workshop, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 14-15, 2017.
2017 On the Edges of the Spanish Empire: The Archaeology of Resisting Conquest in the Northern
Highland Philippines. September 14, 2017. Archaeology Around the World Lecture Series, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2017 Colonialism and Ethnogenesis: Rethinking Dominant Narratives about the Ifugao of the Northern Philippines. May 18, 2017. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
2016 Economic Intensification and Emergent Political Centralization: Rice Terracing as a Response to
Spanish Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. May 4, 2016. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
2016 The Ifugao after Spanish Conquest: Colonization and Identity Formation. A. Watson Armour III
Research Seminar Series, Field Museum, Chicago, IL. March 23, 2016.
2015 Recent Inception of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ecological Data. A
Symposium on the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Its Antiquity, Management, and Conservancy, National Museum of the Philippines, June 18, 2015.
2015 University Lecture: Highland responses to Spanish colonialism: Economic and political
transformations in Ifugao, Philippines. University of Wisconsin-Madison. September 25, 2015.
2015 Agroecology and risk minimization: The Complementary nature of Ifugao Agricultural System. International Austronesian Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. Council on Indigenous Peoples and National Taipei University of Education, October 29-30, 2015.
2014 Sacred and Social Water Management in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia: Lowland Khmers and
Upland Cordillerans. Water in Southeast Asia: Navigating Contradictions, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, June 26-27, 2014 (with Miriam Stark)
2013 The Deep History of Ifugao Material Culture: Artifacts from the Old Kiyyangan Village,
Kiangan, Ifugao. Philippine Indigenous Peoples Symposium, Museum Quai Branly, Paris, April 25-26,
2012 Mythology meets Archaeology: The Old Kiyyangan Village of Ifugao. University Press’s
Occasional Seminar, Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, Philippines, July 27, 2012.
2012 The Old Kiyyangan Village: Archaeology of an Early Ifugao Settlement. Binalot Talk
(Brown Bag Lecture Series), Archaeological Studies program-University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, July 25, 2012.
2012 Updates on the 2012 Field Season of the Ifugao Archaeological Project. National Museum
of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, July 2, 2012.
2012 Archaeological Investigations of Culture Process and Culture History in the Ifugao Rice
Terraces. National Museum of the Philippines, March 23, 2012.
2012 Archaeological Investigations in the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Northern Philippines:
Addressing Antiquity and the Intensification Process. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, January 29, 2012.
2011 The San Remigio, Cebu excavations. Occasional Anthropology Seminar, Center for
Philippine Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. November 2, 2011.
2009 Dating Construction and Use of the Ifugao Rice Terrace Systems, Center for Philippine
Studies Spring 2009 Colloquium Series, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2009.
2003 Land Use and Agricultural Intensification: A GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao
Landscape, Northern Philippines, Archaeological Studies Program Brown Bag Seminar, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Q.C., August 6, 2003.
2002 Marxist Perspectives in Philippine Archaeology. Archaeological Studies Program Brown
Bag Seminar, University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City. June 2002.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2024 Mobility in the Maritime World of Island Southeast Asia in the Early 2nd Millennium
CE, AAS-in-Asia, July 1-4, 2024.
2021 Stephen Acabado and Jared Koller. Expansion Modeling and Dating the Ifugao Agricultural
Terrace Systems Through Volumetric Analysis and Energetic Modeling. 2021 EuroSEAS Virtual Conference, September 9, 2021.
2021 Christopher Rodning and Stephen Acabado—Game Theory, Chaos Theory, and the
Archaeology of Indigenous Responses to Global Spanish Colonialisms, 86th SAA Annual Meeting (virtual), April 12-14, 2021.
2019 Stephen Acabado and Marlon Martin – Indigeneity and Empowerment: The Politics of
Ethnic Labeling in the Philippines, SAA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 10-14, 2019
2019 Jared Koller and Stephen Acabado—Expansion Modeling and Dating the Ifugao
Agricultural Terrace Systems Through Volumetric Analysis and Energetic Modeling, SAA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 10-14, 2019.
2018 Mikhail Echavarri and Stephen Acabado—Localizing the Narrative of Spanish
Colonization in the Philippines, SAA Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 2018, Washington, D.C.
2018 Jared Koller and Stephen Acabado—Under the Church Bell: Reducción and Control in
Spanish Philippines, SAA Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 2018, Washington, D.C.
2018 Stephen Acabado—Rice, Rituals, and Identity: Resistance and Maintenance of Ifugao
Agricultural Practice, Electronic Symposium, SAA Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 2018,
Washington, D.C.
2017 Landscapes of Resistance: Continuity and Change in the Ifugao Agrocultural System. American
Anthropological Association 116th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 28-December 3,
2017 Zones of Refuge: Resisting Conquest in the Northern Philippine Highlands through Agricultural
Practice. Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA, March 29-April 2, 2017.
2016 The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the “Unconquered” to Spanish Conquest and
Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. 2nd SPAFA International Conference in Southeast Asian Archaeology, May 31-June 2, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand
2016 Highland responses to Colonialism: Wet-Rice Cultivation and Political Consolidation in Ifugao,
Philippines. 2016 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 31-April 3, 2016.
2015 Post-AD 1600 Origins of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Highland Responses to Spanish
Colonial Aims in the Philippines. Society for American Archaeology 2015 Meetings, San Francisco, CA, April 15-19, 2015.
2015 Conserving the rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras: Community-led initiatives and the
Ifugao Archaeological Project. 2015 Anuual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies. Chicago, IL, March 36-29, 2015.
2014 Rice cultivation and Co-evolutionary Systems. 21st Biennial Conference of Pacific History
Association, Dec. 3-6, 2014.
2013 Lessons from the 2012 Field Season of the Ifugao Archaeological Project: A
Community-led Research Program. 78th SAA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, April 3-7, 2013.
2012 The Ifugao landscape: complementary relationship between swiddening and intensive rice
cultivation. 77th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Memphis, TN, April 18-22, 2012.
2011 How old is it? Resolving the antiquity of the Ifugao rice terraces. College of Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences Annual Conference, University of Guam.
2009 Taro before Rice Terraces: Implications of Radiocarbon Dates, Ethnohistoric
Reconstructions, and Ethnography in Dating the Ifugao Terraces, 19TH Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 20-December 5, 2009.
2006 Landscape and Social Organization: The Social Organization of the Ifugao, Northern
Luzon, Philippines, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 2006.
2006 The Ifugao Cultural Landscape: Distribution of Agricultural Fields, Indo-Pacific
Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 2006.
2005 A GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao Landscape: Implications for Archaeological Studies
of Agricultural Intensification, 2nd National Cordillera Studies Conference, University
of the Philippines Baguio, Baguio City, Philippines, Nov. 17-18, 2005.
2002 Preservation of the Rice Terraces: Problems and Concerns, Workshop on Southeast
Asian Preservation, Imin Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, April 2002.
2001 Standardization and Specialization: An Aid to Archaeological Reconstruction, UPEPSF
Faculty Conference, Subic Bay, May 2001.
SESSIONS/SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
2025 Collaborative and Integrative Climate Research in Southeast Asia, Villa Caceres Hotel,
Naga City, Philippines, March 1-3, 2025.
2024 Global Indigeneity Conference: Building Community Partnerships and Networks, Banaue Grand
View Hotel, Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines, August 22-25, 2024.
2024 Coastal and Island Ecologies, PEMSEA Conference, University of the Philippines-Visayas,
Miagao, Philippines, January 16-19, 2024.
2023 Indigenous Landscapes and Resource Management in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. PEMSEA Conference, National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, February 25-26. 2023.2023 Southeast Asia Now: Convening of the Luce Southeast Asia Initiative Grantees. UCLA Luskin
Conference Center, September 29-20, 2023.
SESSIONS/SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED (CONT.)
2022 Webinar Series Co-Convenor, Natural Resource Policy and Law. February 23-March 16, 2022,
https://dal.ucla.edu/engagedresearch/natural-resource-policy-culture-and-law/
2021 Webinar Series Convenor, Historicizing Disaster Response: Mt. Isarog and its Environs, Eight-
part Series, August 2-Sept. 27, 2021. https://dal.ucla.edu/earlymodernseasia/panels/
2020 Webinar Series Co-Convener: Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production, Policy Change, and Empowerment, Ten-part Series, September 13-November 18, 2020.
2019 WORKSHOP: Early Modern Period Transitions in Southeast Asia: Environmental Dynamics, Social Change, and Globalization. Department of Anthropology, UCLA, April 25-27, 2019 (with co-organizers M. Stark and P. Lape).
2019 WORKSHOP: Environment and Social Systems: Historical Ecology in a Dynamic World.
National Chengchi University, Taiwan, May 23-26, 2019 (with co-organizer Da-wei Kuan).
2016 Learning in the Field through the Ifugao Archaeological Project Field Schools: Community
Archaeology as a Paradigm, 2nd SEAMEO-SPAFA International Conference in Southeast Asian Archaeology, May 31-June 2, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand.
2016 Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Investigations in Southeast Asia: Archaeology, History, and
Colonialism. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. March 31-April 3, 2016. (with Peter Lape and John Miksic)
2015 A Symposium on the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Its Antiquity, Management, and Conservancy,
National Museum of the Philippines, June 18, 2015.
2015 Cross-cultural Encounters/Entanglements in Southeast Asia. 80th Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, April 6-10, 2016. San Francisco. “Landscape Archaeology in Southeast Asia”, 77th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, April 18-22, 2012
2009 Tremors of Change: Indigenous Peoples & Modernization, 8th International Graduate Student
Conference, East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2009 (Hungyu Ru, Kua-Hung Chen, and da-Wei Kuan, co-organizers)
2006 Trade, Social Interaction, and Political Economy in Southeast Asian Archaeology, Indo-
Pacific Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 19-26, 2006 (Cy Calugay and Wannasarn Noonsuk, co-organizers)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2022 Panelist, How to Build a Career and Life in Archaeology: Tips from the Hired and Hirers for
BIPOC Archaeologists, Wener Gren Foundaiton for Anthropological Research, February 17, 2022.
2019- Center for Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, and
Sustainability (Co-organizer)
2016- Heritage Curriculum Workshops for Elementary and High School Teachers in Ifugao, Philippines
(Co-Organizer)
2015- Community Ethnography Workshops for Local Stakeholders, Ifugao, Philippines (co-organizer)
2011 Luce Foundation Initiative on Southeast Asian Archaeology Assessment Workshop,
Bangkok, Thailand, December 13-16, 2011 (co-organizer).
2011 NASA Space Archaeology Workshop. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October
8-10, 2011.
2009 Discussant. Status of Southeast Asian Archaeology at the University of Hawaii. Society
for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Honolulu, HI. October 9, 2009.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
https://philippinearchaeoanth.ss.ucla.edu/
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Anthropology, 2010, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Research interests: Historical ecology, landscape archaeology, agricultural systems, settlement patterns, emergent complexity, indigenous peoples, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Guam, Micronesia
M.A. Anthropology, 2003, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Thesis: Land Use and Agricultural Intensification: A GIS-Based Analysis of the Landscape of Ifugao, Northern Philippines.
B.A. Anthropology, 1999, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Professor (2023-present), Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Chairperson (2022-present), Archaeology Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los
Angeles
Director (2021-present), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Los
Angeles
Director (2021-present), Program for Early Modern Southeast Asia, University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor (2019-2023), Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor (2013-2019), Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of Anthropology (2010-2013), University of Guam, Mangilao, GU
Instructor (2009-2010), Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Visiting Lecturer (2003-2004), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila
University, Quezon City, Philippines
Instructor (1999-2001), University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines
VISITING AND OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2024-Present Professorial Chair Holder, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila
2021-2023 Visiting Professorial Lecturer, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila
2022-present Visiting Professorial Lecturer, National Chenchi University, Taiwan
2019-present International Faculty Affiliate, Partido State University, Goa, Camarines Sur, Philippines
2012-present Research Fellow, Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, Inc.
2012-present National Museum of the Philippines Research Associate
EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTMENTS
2021-2022 GRI & NEH Scholar Selection Committee Member, Getty Scholars Program, Getty
Research Institute
2021-present Member, Humans Editorial Board
2021-present Member, American Antiquity Editorial Board
2021-present Member, Saysay: Bicol Studies Journal Editorial Board
2020-present Member, Scientific Steering Committee, iHOPE (Integrated History--and Future--of the
People on Earth)
2018-present Member, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Engaged Grant
Program Advisory Board
2016-present Member, Philippine Quarterly and Culture Editorial Board
GRANTS
2025 University of Hawaii-Manoa Subaward Amendment, Cambodia Closure Initiative, $82,622.65
2024 Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference Grant, $20,000.00
2024 Mountain Spirits Exhibit at the Fowler, Henry Luce Foundation, $300,000.00
2024 University of Hawaii-Manoa Subaward, Cambodia Closure Initiative, $902,836.00
2024 Philippine Studies Grant, Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles, $18,000.00
2024 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Sicily,
$168,752
2023 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Belgium,
$188,533
2023 Southeast Asian Studies Now, Convening of the LuceSEA Initiative Grantees, Henry Luce
Foundation, $248,500
2023 Indigenous Communities in the Western Pacific: Strengthening Collaborations and Networks,
Henry Luce Foundation, $200,000.
2023 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Laos,
$229,482
2022 US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, UCLA Center for Southeast
Asian Studies, 2022-2026, $1,040,000
2022 US Department of Education Title VI Foreign Language Area Studies fellowships, UCLA Center
for Southeast Asian Studies, 2022-2026, $1,264,000
2022 Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Henry Jackson Foundation, Recovery Effort in Belgium,
$189,176
2021 Early Modern Period Transitions in Southeast Asia: Environmental Dynamics, Social Change,
and Globalization. Henry Luce Foundation, Southeast Asia Initiative, 2021-2027, $740,000
2021 Research Collaboration & Academic Exchange: a co-creation initiative between Partido State University and US-based institutions, Commission on Higher Education (Philippines), $100,000
2021 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development Overseas Science Research Center (TPILSC) Project ($300,000), with PI Min-Cheng Kou (renewed)
2021 UC Berkeley - UCLA Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies: National Research Center, US
Department of Education, $110,501
2020 Webinar Series on the Future of Anthropology, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research, $4,900
2020 Special Grant (Engaged Research Webinar Series), The Henry Luce Foundation, $3,000
2020 EU Marie Sklodovska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange 2020-2024 Grant: Probing
the Genetic Diversity and Demographic History of Ancient Seafarers in ISEA and Oceania, from
Archaic Hominins to the Dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian Language Family, €2,042,400.00,
with PI Philipp Endicott.
2019 European Research Council Grant: PANTROPOCENE: Finding a pre-industrial, pan-tropical
‘Anthropocene’, €1,499,375, with PI Patrick Roberts)
2019 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology: The Challenge and Opportunity for Indigenous
Areas under the National Spatial Planning Act: A Study on the Epistemology and Methodology
of Indigenous Planning, NT$1,043,000.00, with PI Da-Wei Kuan
2019 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development Overseas Science Research Center (TPILSC) Project, $300,000, with PI Min-Cheng Kou
2018 National Geographic Society-Committee for Research and Exploration, $49,713
2018 Whiting Foundation Mini-Grant for Public Engagement, $5000
2018 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST): Dynamic Spatial Governance in the
Mountain Social-ecological System: Case Study of the Tayal Communities in the Watershed of Shih-Men Reservoir, with PI Da-Wei Kuan, NT$893,000 (renewed)
2018 Faculty Research Grant, UCLA Academic Senate, $6980
2018 Ahmanson Field Research Grant, $3000
2017 Faculty Research Grant, UCLA Academic Senate, $7960
2016 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST): Dynamic Spatial Governance in the
Mountain Social-ecological System: Case Study of the Tayal Communities in the Watershed of Shih-Men Reservoir, with PI Da-Wei Kuan, NT$685,000
2015 National Science Foundation-Research Experience for Undergraduates, Ifugao
Archaeological Project (Award # 1460665; $159,123) (2015-2017)
2015 Hellman Fellowship: Highland Responses to Spanish Colonialism ($25,000).
2015 Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA Diversity and Faculty Development ($10,000).
2015 Faculty Research Grant, UCLA Faculty Senate ($10,000).
2013 National Museum of the Philippines, Grant to Study a National Cultural Treasure: Ifugao
Archaeological Project ($17,500) (2013-2015)
2012 National Geographic Society-Committee for Research and Exploration Grant. Ifugao
Archaeological Project ($21,000).
2011 National Parks Service. Cultural Landscape Inventory and Interim Treatment Plan for Asan and
Agat Invasion Beaches, Guam ($77,217).
2011 National Parks Service. Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments on Known Archeological
Sites at War in the Pacific National Historical Park (Guam) and American Memorial Park (Saipan) ($30,000.00).
2011 Archeological Site Condition Assessments and Cave Inventories at War in the Pacific
National Historical Park (Guam) and American Memorial Park (Saipan) ($44,000.00).
2011 GeoEye Foundation Imagery Grant for San Remigio, Cebu Archaeological Project.
2009 American Council of Learned Societies/Henry Luce Foundation Early Career Seminar,
Tarrytown, New York.
2009 Graduate Student Organization Travel Award, University of Hawaii.
2007 Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation
Fellowship ($28,000)
2007 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant: Landscapes and Self-
Organizing Systems: The Archaeology of the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Northern Philippines
($15,000)
2007 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai‘i.
2005 Dai Ho Chun Travel Grant, University of Hawai‘i.
2005 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai‘i.
2004 Teaching Assistantship, University of Hawai‘i.
2002 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai‘i.
2001 Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (ACC), ACC New York and ACC Philippines (2001-2006)
2001 East West Center Degree Fellowship, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
AWARDS AND FELOWSHIPS
2024 Best Book in the Social Sciences, National Book Awards, Philippines. Plural Entanglements:
Philippine Studies. Ateneo de Manila University Press.
2022 Astor Fellowship, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2013 Faculty Excellence in Research, University of Guam.
2013 Faculty Excellence in Service, University of Guam.
2012 Faculty Excellence in Research, University of Guam.
2009 Ligaya Fruto Award, Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii.
2004 John F. Embree Award for Southeast Asian Anthropology, CSEAS, University of Hawai‘i.
MUSUEM-RELATED WORK
2004 Deputy Director for Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
2003 Visiting Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
2012 Archaeology Consultant, Lopez Memorial Museum, Philippines.
2012 Archaeology Consultant, Tayabas City Museum, Tayabas City, Quezon, Philippines.
2004 Deputy Director for Programs, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines.
2003 Exhibit Curator, Baray: Water in Khmer Arts and Life. Metropolitan Museum of
Manila. Manila Philippines.
OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Program Coordinator, Luce Asian Archaeology Program, Department of Anthropology, University of
Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2009-2010.
Anth 151 (Emerging Humanity) and Anth 152 (Cultural Anthropology) TA Coordinator, Department of
Anthropology, University of Hawai‘I, 2005-2007.
Coordinator, Ayta Studies Center, University of the Philippines Extension Program in Pampanga, Clark
Field Pampanga, 2001.
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
2015-present. Key Personnel, Center for Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Studies, Local Knowledges, and Sustainable Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
2011-present. Research Affiliate, Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, Inc. (SITMo)
2010-present. Research Associate, National Museum of the Philippines
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2024-present. Highland Ecology and Agricultural Systems in Morocco
2020-present. Taiwan Indigenous Landscape and History Project (Project co-director)
2016-present. Bicol Archaeological Project: Spanish Contact. Camarines Sur, Philippines (Project
Director)
2012 Tayabas Archaeological Project, Tayabas City, Quezon, Philippines (Project Director)
2012 Saipan Paleohabitat Studies (Project Manager)
2011 San Remigio, Cebu (Philippines) Archaeological Project (Project Director)
2007-present. Ifugao Archaeological Project, Ifugao, Philippines (Project Director)
2003 Lower Mekong Archaeological Project Reconnaissance Survey, Takeo Province, Southern
Cambodia (crew chief), Supervisor: M. Stark.
2002 Highlands Archaeology of Thailand, Tham Lod, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand (crew member), Supervisor: R. Shocoondej.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED PERIODICALS
Joshua M. Ackerman, Theodore Samore, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Tom R. Kupfer, Soyeon Choi, Wilson N. Merrell, Lene Aarøe, Toivo Aavik, Stephen Acabado, Grace Akello, Ilham N. Alfian, Laith Al-Shawaf, Marinés M. Alvarez, Jeanine Ammann, Gizem Arikan, Saiyeda A. Asha, Anibal M. Astobiza, Pat Barclay, Fiona Kate Barlow, Lisiane Bizarro, Paola Bressan, Andres Castellanos-Chacón, Bryan K.C. Choy, Achmad Chusairi (...) Iris Žeželj. 2025. I see sick people: Beliefs about sensory detection of infectious disease are largely consistent across cultures. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2025.04.020.
Acabado, S., J. Humiwat-Dulnuan, and M. Martin. 2025. The Ifugao Indigenous People’s Education
Center: Pioneering Community-led Heritage Conservation. Journal of Social Sciences and
Philosophy, 37: 1-25, DOI: 10.53106/1018189X202401101
Meyer-Lorey, R. and S. Acabado. 2024. Manifest Destiny in Southeast Asia: Archaeology of American
Colonial Industry in the Philippines, 1898-1987. American Antiquity
https://doi:10.1017/aaq.2024.24
Acabado, S., and M. Martin. 2024. Older Is Not Necessarily Better: Decolonizing Ifugao History through
the Archaeology of the Rice Terraces. Land 13(2):237. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13020237
Findley, D.M., S. Acabado, N. Amano, A.U. Kay, R. Hamilton, G. Barretto-Tesoro, G.
Bankoff, J. O. Kaplan, and P.R. Roberts. 2022. Land Use Change in a Pericolonial Society: Intensification and Diversification in Ifugao, Philippines Between 1570 and 1800 CE. Frontiers in Earth and Science, doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.680926
Acabado, S. and M. Martin. 2021. Ifugao Indigenous History. Filipinas Journal of the Philippine Studies
Association, Inc. 2021: 26-46.
Madeleine Yakal, Mikhail Echávarri, Earl John Hernandez, Adam Lauer, Robin Meyer-Lorey, Chin-hsin Liu, Queeny Lapeña, Fr. Don Federico, Fr. Eric Bobis, Francisco A. Datar, Jared M. Koller, Thomas A.
Wake, Stephen Acabado. 2021. The Bicol Archaeological Project: Results of the Investigations in
Quipayo, Camaligan, and Bombon, Camarines Sur, 2016–2019. Saysay: The Journal of Bicol History 1(1): 1-37.
Ornob Alam, Rafal M Gutaker, Cheng-chieh Wu, Karen A Hicks, Kyle Bocinsky, Cristina Cobo Castillo, Stephen Acabado, Dorian Fuller, Jade A d’Alpoim Guedes, Yue-ie Hsing, Michael D Purugganan. 2021.
Genome analysis traces regional dispersal of rice in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, Molecular Biology and Evolution, msab209, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab209
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Community-led
Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3):1-15, DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767383
Acabado, S.B., J.M. Koller, C-h. Liu, A. Lauer, A. Farahani, G. Barretto-Tesoro, J.A. Martin, and J.A. Peterson. 2019. The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: A Local Response to the Spanish Conquest. Journal of Field Archaeology 44(3): 195–214.
Acabado, S. 2018. Zones of Refuge: Resisting conquest in the northern Philippine highlands through
environmental practice. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 52:180-195, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.005
M. Horrocks, S.B. Acabado, and J.A. Peterson. 2018. Plant Microfossil Results from Old
Kiyyangan Village: Looking for the Introduction and Expansion of Wet-field Rice (Oryza sativa) Cultivation in the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Philippine Cordilleras. Asian Perspectives 58(1): 1-18.
Acabado, S.B., M. Sanders, J.A. Peterson, M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2018. The Ifugao Archaeological Project, 2012-2017. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2): 1-14.
Pagulayan, R.D. and S.B. Acabado. 2018. A Diachronic Investigation of Old Kiyyangan’s Cultural
Deposits: A Comparison of Different Stratigraphic Layers. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2): 15-32.
Meyer-Lorey, R. and S.B. Acabado. 2018. Economic Intensification in Old Kiyyangan: Global
Interaction and Intra-Regional Trade Revealed through Trade Ceramics. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2): 33-48.
Acabado, S.B., G. Barretto-Tesoro, and N. Amano. 2017. Agricultural intensification, status
differentiation, and pottery production in precapitalist Kiyyangan, Ifugao, Philippines. Archaeological Research in Asia, doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.10.004.
Lapeña, Q. and S.B. Acabado. 2017. Resistance through rituals: The role of Philippine “native pig” (Sus
scrofa) in Ifugao feasting and socio-political organization. Journal of Archaeological Science:
Reports 13: 583-294.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and F. Datar. 2017. Ifugao Archaeology: Collaborative and Indigenous
Archaeology in the Northern Philippines. Advances in Archaeological Practice 5(1): 1-11.
Acabado, S.B. 2017. The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the "Unconquered" to Spanish
Conquest and Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 21(1): 1-26.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2016. The Sacred and the Secular: Practical Applications of Water Rituals
in the Ifugao Agricultural System. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and –National Studies of Southeast Asia 4(2), 307-327.
Eusebio, M., J. Ceron, S.B. Acabado, and J. Krigbaum. 2015. Rice Pots or Not? Exploring Ancient
Ifugao Foodways through Organic Residue Analysis and Palaeobotany. National Museum
Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 11-20.
Martin, M. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Community Participation in the Ifugao Archaeological Project.
National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 39-45.
Lauer, A. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Infant Death and Burial Practices in Late Prehistoric Kiyyangan
Village, Kiangan, Ifugao. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 31-38.
Peterson, J.A. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Did the Little Ice Age contribute to the emergence of rice terrace
farming in Ifugao, Philippines? National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 1-10.
Ledesma, C., N. Amano, and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Faunal remains from the Old Kiyyangan Village.
National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage, 1(1): 21-30.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2014. Rethinking History, Conserving Heritage: Archaeology
and Community Engagement in Ifugao, Philippines. The SAA Archaeological Record, Nov. 2014, 14(5): 12-17.
Acabado, S.B. 2013. Defining Ifugao Social Organization: “House”, Field, and Self-Organizing
Principles in the Northern Philippines. Asian Perspectives 52(2): 161-189.
Acabado, S.B. 2012. The Ifugao Agricultural Landscapes: Complementary Systems and the
Intensification Debate. Journal Of Southeast Asian Studies 43(3): 500-522.
Acabado, S.B. 2012. Taro Before Rice Terraces: Implications of Radiocarbon Determinations,
Ethnohistoric Reconstructions, and Ethnography in Dating the Ifugao Terraces. In Irrigated Taro (Colocassia Esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological and Historical Perspectives, M. Spriggs, D. Addison, And P.J. Matthews (Eds).Senri Ethnological Studies. Vol (N.D.). National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka.
Acabado, S.B. 2010. Landscapes and the Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces:
Establishing Antiquity and Social Organisation. Hukay: Journal for Archaeological Research in Asia and the Pacific, 15: 31-61.
Acabado, S.B. 2009. A Bayesian Approach to Dating Agricultural Terraces: A Case from
the Philippines. Antiquity 83(2009): 801-814.
CHAPTERS IN OTHER JOURNALS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Acabado, S.B. and Marlon Martin. 2025. Introduction: Philippine Indigeneity. In More Indigenous than We Admit: Rethinking Encounters, Histories, and the Politics of Indigeneity. S. Acabado and M. Martin (eds.), pp. xv-xxxi. Quezon City: Vibal Publlishers.
Acabado, S.B. 2025. When the native is not Indigenous: Beyond Colonial Definitions of Indigeneity. In More Indigenous than We Admit: Rethinking Encounters, Histories, and the Politics of Indigeneity. S. Acabado and M. Martin (eds.), pp. 5-25. Quezon City: Vibal Publlishers.
D. Docot, S. Acabado, and C Camposano. Philippine Studies beyond the Capital. 2023. In Philippine
Studies Plural Entanglement, S. Acabado, C. Camposano, and D. Docot (ed). Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press (Feb. 2023)
G. Barretto-Tesoro and S. Acabado (2023). Incorporating Indigenous Perspectives in Chronology
Building: Rejecting the Three-Age System in Philippine Archaeology. In Philippine Studies: Plural Entanglements, S. Acabado, C. Camposano, and D. Docot (eds), pp. 29-56. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Acabado, S.B., A. Lauer, and M. Martin. 2021. Community Engagement and Cultural
Heritage in Southeast Asian Archaeology. In Handbook of Southeast Asian Archaeology, N.C. Kim and C. Higham (eds), pp. 874-896. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Acabado, S.B. and D-w. Kuan. 2021. Indigenous Peoples: Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific. In
Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment, edited by Stephen Acabado and Da-wei Kuan, pp. 1-15. Milton Park and New York, Routledge.
Salvador-Amores, A., M. Martin., and S.B. Acabado. 2021. Expressive Cultures: Empowering
Cordillera (Philippines) Weavers through Textile Revitalization. In Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment, edited by Stephen Acabado and Da-wei Kuan, pp. 72-89. Milton Park and New York: Routledge.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2021. Writing for the Public: Advancing a Meaningful Archaeological
Practice. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Insitute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 6-8.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2021. Archaeology and the Impermanence of Science. Backdirt: Annual
Review of the Cotsen Insitute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 88-9.
Acabado S.B. and D-w. Kuan. 2021. Landscape, Habitus and Identity: A Comparative
Study on the Agricultural Transition of Highland Indigenous Communities in Philippines and Taiwan. In Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond, edited by S. Shih and L. Tsai, pp. 139-161. Singapore: Springer.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Colonial Resistance through Political and Economic Consolidation:
The Short History of the Ifugao rice Terraces. In More Hispanic than we Admit 3: Quincentennial Edition, 1521-1820 Filipino and Spanish Interactions over Centuries, J. Mojaro (ed), pp. 407-422. Quezon City, Vibal.
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, E. Bobis, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the
Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 2). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(4): 33-37.
Acabado, S.B. 2020. Current Archaeological Practice in Southeast Asia: Collaboration,
Engagement, and Community Involvement in Field Research in Southeast Asia. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3), DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767370
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, M. Martin, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the
Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 1). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(3): 6-11.
Acabado, S. and E. Hsieh. 2020. East and Southeast Asia at the Age of Contact: Post-1500
Archaeology of Asia. In Handbook of Historical Archaeology, C. Orser, A. Zarankin, P. Funari, S. Lawrence, and J. Symonds (eds), pp. 698-711. New York, Routledge.
Acabado, S.B. and G. Barretto-Tesoro. 2020. Places, Landscapes, and Identity: Place Making in the
Colonial Period Philippines. In The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism (Amerind Studies in Archaeology), C. Beaule and J. Douglass (eds), pp. 200-221. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
M. Martin, S.B. Acabado, and R. Macapagal. 2019. Hongan di Pa'ge: The Sacredness and
Realism of Terraced Landscape in Ifugao Culture, Philippines. In Indigenous Perspectives on Living with Cultural Landscapes, J. Liljeblad and B. Verschuuren (eds.), pp. 167-179. London, Routledge.
Acabado, S. and M. Martin. 2018. The Ifugao Agroecological System: Bridging Culture and
Nature to Enhance Tropical Biodiversity. In Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Biodiversity: Integrating Natural and Cultural Diversity For Sustainability: A Global Perspective, N. Sanz (ed.), pp. 228-253. Mexico: UNESCO Mexico Office.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2015. Between pragmatism and cultural context: Continuity and change
in Ifugao wet-rice agriculture. In Water and heritage: Material, conceptual and spiritual connections. W. Willems and H. van Schaik (eds), pp. 275-297. Leiden: Sidestone Press Academic.
Acabado, S.B. 2015. Preface: The Ifugao Archaeological Project. National Museum Journal of Cultural
Heritage, 1(1): iii-v.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2015. Reports from the Field: The Ifugao Archaeological
Project. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2015: 54-61.
Acabado, S.B. 2006. Water is Sacred; Water is Power; Water is Life: Water in Khmer Civilization. In Baray: Water in Khmer Arts and Life, edited by V. Manalo. Manila: Metropolitan
Museum of Manila.
BOOKS
Acabado S.B., C. Camposano, and D. Docot. Philippine Studies: Plural Entaglements (editors) (2023).
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2022. Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines: Decolonizing Ifugao
History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Acabado S.B. and D-w. Kuan (editors). 2021. Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in
the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment. Milton Park and New York: Routledge.
Acabado, S.B., K.C. Cordero, and A. Camacho. 2020. The Bahay Kubo: A Filipino Children’s Song (A
Picture Book). Naga City, Philippines: KC Cordero Savage Mind Publishing House
Acabado, S.B. 2015. Antiquity, Archaeological Processes, and Highland Adaptation: The Ifugao Rice
Terraces. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
DISSERTATION
Acabado, S.B. 2010. The Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Antiquity and Social Organization. Phd Dissertation, University of Hawaii.
MA THESIS
Acabado, S.B. 2003. Landscapes and Agricultural Intensification: GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao Landscape, Northern Philippines. MA Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University
of Hawaii.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITOR
Acabado, S.B. (guest editor) 2020. Special Issue, Current Archaeological Practice in Southeast
Asia: Collaboration, Engagement, and Community Involvement in Field Research. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage Vol 7 (3)
Acabado, S.B. (guest editor). 2018. The Ifugao Archaeological Project: Student Papers. Philippine
Quarterly of Culture and Society 46(1-2).
Acabado, S.B. (guest editor) 2015. Ifugao Archaeology Project. National Museum Journal of Cultural
Heritage 1(1).
BOOK REVIEW
2020 Heritage Movements in Asia: Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics and Identity, by Ali
Mozaffari and Tod Jones. New York and London: Berghahn Books, 2020. International Journal of Asian Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591420000571
2015 Pigs and Persons in the Philippines: Human-Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Ritual, by Remme, Jon Hendrik Ziegler. Anthropos 110.2015: 655-656.
2014 Ceramic Production and Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Philippines, A.D. 500 to
1600, by Lisa C. Niziolek. Dissertation Reviews 2014.
UNPUBLISHED
C. Calugay and S.B. Acabado. 2013. Archaeological Collection Catalog of the Lopez Memorial
Museum, Philippines.
PUBLIC-FACING PUBLICATIONS/PROJECTS
2025. S.B. Acabado. Not just a hangover cure. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-goto-filipino porridge-history-influences/, June 1, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. OFW: Love, wrapped and sent. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-story-overseas-filipinos-heritage-balikbayan-boxes/, May 18, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. A drunk history of the Philippines. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-drunk-history-philippines/, May 4, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. How Indonesian nutmeg built New York and reshaped the Philippines. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-indonesian-nutmeg-built-new-york-reshaped-philippines/, April 20, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. The stingray that time did not forget. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel kinunot-bicolano-dish-pagi-stingray-connection-past-present/, April 6, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. Filipinos came from Taiwan? We keep getting the Austronesian story wrong. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-filipinos-taiwan-origin-wrong-austronesian-story/, March 24, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. The truth about the Tasaday. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-truth-about-tasaday-indigenous-peoples/, Mar. 9, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. Put indigenous knowledge front and center in climate adaptation. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-opinion-put-indigenous-knowledge-front-center-climate-adaptation/, Feb. 16, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. Adobo, and why ‘authentic’ is overrated. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-adobo-why-authentic-overrated/, Feb. 10, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. The price of collecting without respect for culture. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-price-collecting-without-respect-culture/, January 28, 2025.
2025. S.B. Acabado. How forest fires heal the land. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/, January 20, 2025
2024. S.B. Acabado. Hope from the past: Archaeology’s lessons for a sustainable future. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-hope-from-past-archaeology-lessons-sustainable-future/, December 29, 2024
2024. S.B. Acabado. How broken pots in the Philippines changed the way we study history. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-broken-pots-changed-way-study-philippine-history/, December 15, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, Piphal Heng, EJ Hernandez, and M. Quinto-Lising. It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”, Sapiens Magazine, https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/prehistory-deep-history-southeast-asia/, December 3, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Putting local voices at the center of academic research, Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-opinion-put-local-voices-at-the-center-academic-research/, December 1, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Retire those flawed theories on how people first arrived in the Philippines, Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-retire-flawed-stories-how-people-first-arrived-philippines/, November 17, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Rebuilding schools, other learning spaces after disasters. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-rebuilding-schools-other-learning-spaces-after-disasters/, November 3, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Past has some Good Lessons about Disaster Preparedness. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-past-good-lessons-disaster-preparedness/. October 24, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Indigenous Peoples Month Demands Real Action, not Just Symbolism. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/indigenous-peoples-month-demand-real-action-not-symbolism/. October 21, 2022.
2024. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and R. Rovillos. The Global Indigeneity Conference: Building Community Partnerships and Networks. Wenner-Gren Foundation Webnews, https://wennergren.org/article/the-global-indigeneity-conference-building-community-partnerships-and-networks. October 10, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Global Roots of Filipino Cuisine. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-global-roots-philippine-cuisine-dishes/, October 6, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Manilamen: Filipinos were in America before there was a USA. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-manilamen-filipinos-in-america-before-there-was-united-states/. September 28, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Anatomy of Spicy Laing. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-anatomy-spicy-laing/. September 15, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Ifugao’s Evolving Story as Birthplace of Philippine Anthropology. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-ifugao-evolving-story-birthplace-philippine-anthropology/. August 25, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. How to Truly Decolonize the Philippines’ Aducational System. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-truly-decolonize-education-system-philippines/. July 14, 2024
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Philippine Origins of Mezcal and Tequila Distillation. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-philippine-origins-mezcal-tequila-distillation-galleon-trade/. July 30, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. How to Truly Decolonize Philippine Education. Rappler time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-how-truly-decolonize-education-system-philippines/. July14, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Yamashita Treasure is a Myth, and Treasure Hunting is not Archaeology. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-yamashita-gold-myth-treasure-hunting-not-archeology/. June 16, 2024.
2024. Safeguarding the Ifugao Rice Terraces for future generations. Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-safeguard-batad-ifugao-rice-terraces-future-generations/, May 26, 2024
2024. S.B. Acabado. Heritage for Whom? Rappler Time Trowel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-heritage-for-whom/. May 5, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Was There a Philippine Kingdom named “Kalaga Putuan Crescent”? Rappler Time Travel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-was-there-philippine-kingdom-named-kalaga-putuan-crescent/. April 28, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Mentorship Matters. Rappler Time Travel Column. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-mentorship-matters/. April 21, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. Evolution and the Sneakiness of COVID. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-evolution-sneakiness-covid/. March 3, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. From the Apes to Adobo. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-from-apes-to-adobo-evolution/. February 1, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. The Return of Ancient Limestone Urns to the PH, the return of Dignity to Filipino Heritage. Rappler, https://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-culture/return-ancient-cotabato-limestone-urns-dignity-filipino-heritage/, January 9, 2024.
2024. S.B. Acabado. From Ancient Artifacts to Today’s Trash: Debunking Misconceptions about Archaeology. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/time-trowel-ancient-artifacts-trash-debunking-misconceptions-archaeology/, January 3, 2024.
2023. S.B. Acabado. There is more to Archaeology then Indiana Jones’ Pistol and Whip. Rappler Time Trowel Column, https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-more-archaeology-than-indiana-jones-pistol-whip/. December 11, 2023.
2023. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, G. Barretto-Tesoro, and E.J. Hernandez. Dispatching “Prehistory” for a more inclusive History. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-dispatching-prehistory-inclusive-history-indigenous-peoples/. Rappler, December 5, 2023.
2021. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and G. Lumauig. When the “Native” is not Indigenous. https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/opinion-when-native-not-indigenous. Rappler October 13, 2021.
2021. S.B. Acabado. PH ‘Prehistory’: 500 Years of Indigenous Erasure. https://usa.inquirer.net/72363/ph-prehistory-500-years-of-indigenous-erasure. Philippine Daily Inquirer USA Edition, May 26, 2021.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Ifugao Myths Make Sense of the Archeological Finds https://usa.inquirer.net/61015/ifugao-myths-make-sense-of-archeological-finds. Philippine Daily Inquirer USA Edition, December 11, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. 2020. Saving Ifugao Weaving in the Philippines. SAPIENS. August 26, 2020. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ifugao-weaving/
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Monuments and the Power of Memory https://usa.inquirer.net/57041/monuments-and-the-power-of-memory. Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, July 20, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin [OPINION] The Ifugao, cowboys, and assimilation through education https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/266120-opinion-ifugao-cowboys-assimilation-through-education
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. [OPINION] Bakit walang forever? The impermanence of scientific knowledge https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/265274-opinion-impermanence-science-archeology. Rappler July 1, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] Bahay Kubo and the Making of the Filipino. https://www.rappler.com/voices/ispeak/opinion-bahay-kubo-making-filipino. Rappler June 26, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] An anthropologist on rethinking history to inspire the future. https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/264460-opinion-anthropologist-rethinking-history-inspire-future. Rappler June 22, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. A call for Philippine indigenous history, a call for inclusivity (https://usa.inquirer.net/55789/a-call-for-philippine-indigenous-history-a-call-for-inclusivity). Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, June 17, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and A. Burgos. The Old Kiyyangan Story: Oral Histories and
Archaeological Findings from the Old Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao, Philippines (An Animated Film) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwOHUnYr7w).
2019. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Demystifying the age of the Ifugao Rice Terraces to decolonize history (https://www.rappler.com/science-nature/society-culture/228067-demystifying-age-ifugao-rice-terraces). Rappler April 14, 2019.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Peterson, J., S.B. Acabado, and C. Ledesma. 2012. Archaeological Monitoring Report for Reconstruction
of Togcha and Talofofo Bridges on Route 4 along the East Coast of Guam. Prepared for Parsons Transportation Group and the Department of Public Works, Guam.
Acabado, S.B. 2012. Archaeological Documentation and Condition Assessment of Cultural Resources in
the American Memorial Park (AMME), CNMI and War of the Pacific (WAPA) units of the National Park Service.
Peterson, J., S.B. Acabado, and M. Carson. 2012. Protocol for Assessment of Vulnerability of Historic
Resources to Climate Change, War in the Pacific (WAPA), Guam, and American Memorial (AMME), CNMI units of the National Park Service.
Peterson, J., S.B. Acabado, and V. Cabrera. 2012. Archaeological Monitoring and Testing Investigations
for a Proposed New Construction at Ada Cliffside in Hagatna, Guam. Prepared for Ada Trust and Investment, Inc.
Peterson, J. and S.B. Acabado. 2012. Archaeological Monitoring in Support of Guam Territorial
Highway System Signage and Island Wide School Zone Signs Project. Prepared for Parsons Transportation Group (with John Peterson).
Acabado, S.B. 2012. The San Remigio Archaeological Project Excavations, San Remigio, Cebu,
Philippines. Submitted to the National Museum of the Philippines.
Acabado, S.B. 2007. Archaeology of the Banaue, Ifugao, Rice Terraces. Submitted to the National
Museum of the Philippines.
INVITED LECTURES
2025 Integrating Archaeology in Just Transition Through Indigenous Perspectives. Visiting
Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University,Disrupting, Decentering, and Defining: Locally-Grounded Models and Community-Engaged
Archaeology in Southeast Asia. Admiral David E. Jeremiah and Mrs. Connie Jeremiah Lecture
Series, University of Oregon, March 31, 2025.
2024 Integrating Archaeology in Just Transition Through Indigenous Perspectives. Visiting
Speaker, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, March 25, 2024.
2024 When “Prehistory” Doesn’t Cut It: Framing a More Inclusive Archaeology,
National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2, 2024.
2023 The Integrative Power of Archaeology in Climate Research, Partido State University
(Philippines) Kuroshio Research Conference, Dec. 16, 2023.
2023 Bahay Kubo, the Quintessential Philippine Garden: Networks, Innovation, and
Foodways. Western Mindanao State University, Zamboanga, Philippines. July 21, 2023.
2023 On the edges of the Spanish Empire: the archaeology of resistance against conquest in the
northern highland Philippines. CSU-Fresno, April 12, 2023.
2022 The first decade of the Ifugao Archaeological Project (2012-2022): Findings and
Prospects. Ifugao State University, March 18, 2022.
2022 Indigenous Archaeology: Decolonizing Ifugao History. Chinese University of Hongkong,
March 4, 2022
2022 Demystifying Isolationist Models: Decolonizing History through Community Archaeology in the
Philippines, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, February 18, 2022.
2022 Colonialism without Colonization” the Dating of the Ifugao Rice Terraces. Polytechnic
University of the Philippines, February 17, 2022
2021 Indigeneity in the Philippines: When the native is not Indigenous. Northern Luzon and the
Cordillera in Regional Perspective: Identities, Interactions and Localizations, November 8-9, 2021, University of the Philippines-Baguio.
2021 Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Communities and Archaeological Practice in the
Philippines, School of Archaeology, Oxford University, November 1, 2021.
2021 Writing for the Public: Advancing a Meaningful Anthropological Practice. Bicol Foundation. For
Higher Education general Assembly, Partido State University, October 29, 2021.
2021 The Past is in the Present, The Present is in the Past: Demystifying Archaeological Practice.
Ugnayan at Talastasan: An Interdisciplinary Forum on the Social Sciences and Development. Polytechnic University of the Philippines. October 7, 2021.
2021 Older is not Necessarily Better: The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces. Pantopica Virtual
Seminar, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, September 1, 2021
2021 Keynote Address: Decolonizing History through Community Archaeology in the Philippines.
2021 Philippine Studies Association Conference, August 24, 2021.
2021 Conserving the Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras: Community-led Initiatives and the
Ifugao Archaeological Project. The Cagayan Heritage Conversation Series, Cagayan Museum and
Heritage Conservation Center, August 9, 2021.
2021 Colonialism and Meta-Narratives in the Philippines: Decolonizing History through Community
Archaeology. Garrod Seminar, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge. May 26, 2021.
2021 Decolonizing History, Empowering the Future: Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines.
Festival Employee of Learning and Engagement, Simon Fraser University. May 19, 2021
2021 Isolationist Models and Colonialism: Rethinking Philippine History Narratives through
Ifugao Archaeology. Department of Anthropology, Tulane University. February 26, 2021.
2021 Food, Plants, and Transoceanic Trade: The Making of the Filipino Identity. Cornell Institute of
Archaeology and Material Studies, Cornell University. February 18, 2021.
2021 Indigenous Perspectives in Chronology Building: Rejecting the Three-Age System in Philippine
Archaeology. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Public Talk, February 5, 2021
2021 Food, Plants, and Transoceanic Trade: The Making of the Filipino Identity. Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Materials Studies, February 19, 2021
2020 Engaged Archaeology: Knowledge Co-Production in Ifugao, Philippines.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. 3, 2020.
2020 Collaboration and Involvement: Community-led Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines.
Pulong ng Bayan Community Program, Field Museum, Chicago, IL, Oct. 29, 2020
2020 Demystifying Philippine Historical Narratives. University of the Philippines Alumni Association
Greater Los Angeles, Oct. 31, 2020.
2020 Panel 1, Webinar Series: Engaged Research in the Asia Pacific, September 13, 2020.
2020 ICOMOS Philippines Webinar: When Communities Engage, July 7, 2020.
2020 SPAFA SESH Talks, Older is not Necessarily Better, the Dating of the Ifugao Rice
Terraces, July 8, 2020.
2020 Nayong Pilipino Foundation, Umpukan sa Nayon: “Telling a Heritage Story Part 2 –
Translating Heritage Stories in Philippine Archaeology,” June 5, 2020.
2020 Coopting Colonialism: The Archaeology of Philippine Indigenous History. College of
William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. February 25, 2020.
2019 Responses to Droughts and Warming in the Ifugao Highlands: The Resilient Ifugao
Agroecological System. Climate Change, Indigenous Resilience and Local Knowledge Systems: Cross-time and Cross-boundary Perspectives, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan. December 13-16, 2019.
2019 Landesque Capital or Cultural Perpetuation? Common Pool Resource in the midst of the Market Economy in Ifugao, Philippines. Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas-Austin, November 8, 2019.2018 Resisting Conquest through Environmental Practice: Indigenous Responses to Spanish
Colonialism. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, March 24, 2018.
2017 Keynote Address: Ifugao Archaeology: Linking Academic Discourse with Community Concerns.
Delivered at the Community Engagement, Research, and Student Training Workshop, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 14-15, 2017.
2017 On the Edges of the Spanish Empire: The Archaeology of Resisting Conquest in the Northern
Highland Philippines. September 14, 2017. Archaeology Around the World Lecture Series, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
2017 Colonialism and Ethnogenesis: Rethinking Dominant Narratives about the Ifugao of the Northern Philippines. May 18, 2017. Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.
2016 Economic Intensification and Emergent Political Centralization: Rice Terracing as a Response to
Spanish Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. May 4, 2016. Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
2016 The Ifugao after Spanish Conquest: Colonization and Identity Formation. A. Watson Armour III
Research Seminar Series, Field Museum, Chicago, IL. March 23, 2016.
2015 Recent Inception of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ecological Data. A
Symposium on the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Its Antiquity, Management, and Conservancy, National Museum of the Philippines, June 18, 2015.
2015 University Lecture: Highland responses to Spanish colonialism: Economic and political
transformations in Ifugao, Philippines. University of Wisconsin-Madison. September 25, 2015.
2015 Agroecology and risk minimization: The Complementary nature of Ifugao Agricultural System. International Austronesian Conference, Taipei, Taiwan. Council on Indigenous Peoples and National Taipei University of Education, October 29-30, 2015.
2014 Sacred and Social Water Management in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia: Lowland Khmers and
Upland Cordillerans. Water in Southeast Asia: Navigating Contradictions, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, June 26-27, 2014 (with Miriam Stark)
2013 The Deep History of Ifugao Material Culture: Artifacts from the Old Kiyyangan Village,
Kiangan, Ifugao. Philippine Indigenous Peoples Symposium, Museum Quai Branly, Paris, April 25-26,
2012 Mythology meets Archaeology: The Old Kiyyangan Village of Ifugao. University Press’s
Occasional Seminar, Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, Philippines, July 27, 2012.
2012 The Old Kiyyangan Village: Archaeology of an Early Ifugao Settlement. Binalot Talk
(Brown Bag Lecture Series), Archaeological Studies program-University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, July 25, 2012.
2012 Updates on the 2012 Field Season of the Ifugao Archaeological Project. National Museum
of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, July 2, 2012.
2012 Archaeological Investigations of Culture Process and Culture History in the Ifugao Rice
Terraces. National Museum of the Philippines, March 23, 2012.
2012 Archaeological Investigations in the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Northern Philippines:
Addressing Antiquity and the Intensification Process. Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, January 29, 2012.
2011 The San Remigio, Cebu excavations. Occasional Anthropology Seminar, Center for
Philippine Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI. November 2, 2011.
2009 Dating Construction and Use of the Ifugao Rice Terrace Systems, Center for Philippine
Studies Spring 2009 Colloquium Series, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2009.
2003 Land Use and Agricultural Intensification: A GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao
Landscape, Northern Philippines, Archaeological Studies Program Brown Bag Seminar, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Q.C., August 6, 2003.
2002 Marxist Perspectives in Philippine Archaeology. Archaeological Studies Program Brown
Bag Seminar, University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City. June 2002.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2024 Mobility in the Maritime World of Island Southeast Asia in the Early 2nd Millennium
CE, AAS-in-Asia, July 1-4, 2024.
2021 Stephen Acabado and Jared Koller. Expansion Modeling and Dating the Ifugao Agricultural
Terrace Systems Through Volumetric Analysis and Energetic Modeling. 2021 EuroSEAS Virtual Conference, September 9, 2021.
2021 Christopher Rodning and Stephen Acabado—Game Theory, Chaos Theory, and the
Archaeology of Indigenous Responses to Global Spanish Colonialisms, 86th SAA Annual Meeting (virtual), April 12-14, 2021.
2019 Stephen Acabado and Marlon Martin – Indigeneity and Empowerment: The Politics of
Ethnic Labeling in the Philippines, SAA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 10-14, 2019
2019 Jared Koller and Stephen Acabado—Expansion Modeling and Dating the Ifugao
Agricultural Terrace Systems Through Volumetric Analysis and Energetic Modeling, SAA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 10-14, 2019.
2018 Mikhail Echavarri and Stephen Acabado—Localizing the Narrative of Spanish
Colonization in the Philippines, SAA Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 2018, Washington, D.C.
2018 Jared Koller and Stephen Acabado—Under the Church Bell: Reducción and Control in
Spanish Philippines, SAA Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 2018, Washington, D.C.
2018 Stephen Acabado—Rice, Rituals, and Identity: Resistance and Maintenance of Ifugao
Agricultural Practice, Electronic Symposium, SAA Annual Meeting, April 11-15, 2018,
Washington, D.C.
2017 Landscapes of Resistance: Continuity and Change in the Ifugao Agrocultural System. American
Anthropological Association 116th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 28-December 3,
2017 Zones of Refuge: Resisting Conquest in the Northern Philippine Highlands through Agricultural
Practice. Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA, March 29-April 2, 2017.
2016 The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the “Unconquered” to Spanish Conquest and
Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. 2nd SPAFA International Conference in Southeast Asian Archaeology, May 31-June 2, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand
2016 Highland responses to Colonialism: Wet-Rice Cultivation and Political Consolidation in Ifugao,
Philippines. 2016 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 31-April 3, 2016.
2015 Post-AD 1600 Origins of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Highland Responses to Spanish
Colonial Aims in the Philippines. Society for American Archaeology 2015 Meetings, San Francisco, CA, April 15-19, 2015.
2015 Conserving the rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras: Community-led initiatives and the
Ifugao Archaeological Project. 2015 Anuual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies. Chicago, IL, March 36-29, 2015.
2014 Rice cultivation and Co-evolutionary Systems. 21st Biennial Conference of Pacific History
Association, Dec. 3-6, 2014.
2013 Lessons from the 2012 Field Season of the Ifugao Archaeological Project: A
Community-led Research Program. 78th SAA Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, April 3-7, 2013.
2012 The Ifugao landscape: complementary relationship between swiddening and intensive rice
cultivation. 77th Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Memphis, TN, April 18-22, 2012.
2011 How old is it? Resolving the antiquity of the Ifugao rice terraces. College of Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences Annual Conference, University of Guam.
2009 Taro before Rice Terraces: Implications of Radiocarbon Dates, Ethnohistoric
Reconstructions, and Ethnography in Dating the Ifugao Terraces, 19TH Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 20-December 5, 2009.
2006 Landscape and Social Organization: The Social Organization of the Ifugao, Northern
Luzon, Philippines, Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 2006.
2006 The Ifugao Cultural Landscape: Distribution of Agricultural Fields, Indo-Pacific
Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 2006.
2005 A GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao Landscape: Implications for Archaeological Studies
of Agricultural Intensification, 2nd National Cordillera Studies Conference, University
of the Philippines Baguio, Baguio City, Philippines, Nov. 17-18, 2005.
2002 Preservation of the Rice Terraces: Problems and Concerns, Workshop on Southeast
Asian Preservation, Imin Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, April 2002.
2001 Standardization and Specialization: An Aid to Archaeological Reconstruction, UPEPSF
Faculty Conference, Subic Bay, May 2001.
SESSIONS/SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
2025 Collaborative and Integrative Climate Research in Southeast Asia, Villa Caceres Hotel,
Naga City, Philippines, March 1-3, 2025.
2024 Global Indigeneity Conference: Building Community Partnerships and Networks, Banaue Grand
View Hotel, Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines, August 22-25, 2024.
2024 Coastal and Island Ecologies, PEMSEA Conference, University of the Philippines-Visayas,
Miagao, Philippines, January 16-19, 2024.
2023 Indigenous Landscapes and Resource Management in Taiwan and Southeast Asia. PEMSEA Conference, National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, February 25-26. 2023.2023 Southeast Asia Now: Convening of the Luce Southeast Asia Initiative Grantees. UCLA Luskin
Conference Center, September 29-20, 2023.
SESSIONS/SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED (CONT.)
2022 Webinar Series Co-Convenor, Natural Resource Policy and Law. February 23-March 16, 2022,
https://dal.ucla.edu/engagedresearch/natural-resource-policy-culture-and-law/
2021 Webinar Series Convenor, Historicizing Disaster Response: Mt. Isarog and its Environs, Eight-
part Series, August 2-Sept. 27, 2021. https://dal.ucla.edu/earlymodernseasia/panels/
2020 Webinar Series Co-Convener: Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production, Policy Change, and Empowerment, Ten-part Series, September 13-November 18, 2020.
2019 WORKSHOP: Early Modern Period Transitions in Southeast Asia: Environmental Dynamics, Social Change, and Globalization. Department of Anthropology, UCLA, April 25-27, 2019 (with co-organizers M. Stark and P. Lape).
2019 WORKSHOP: Environment and Social Systems: Historical Ecology in a Dynamic World.
National Chengchi University, Taiwan, May 23-26, 2019 (with co-organizer Da-wei Kuan).
2016 Learning in the Field through the Ifugao Archaeological Project Field Schools: Community
Archaeology as a Paradigm, 2nd SEAMEO-SPAFA International Conference in Southeast Asian Archaeology, May 31-June 2, 2016, Bangkok, Thailand.
2016 Multidisciplinary and Collaborative Investigations in Southeast Asia: Archaeology, History, and
Colonialism. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. March 31-April 3, 2016. (with Peter Lape and John Miksic)
2015 A Symposium on the Ifugao Rice Terraces: Its Antiquity, Management, and Conservancy,
National Museum of the Philippines, June 18, 2015.
2015 Cross-cultural Encounters/Entanglements in Southeast Asia. 80th Meeting of the Society for
American Archaeology, April 6-10, 2016. San Francisco. “Landscape Archaeology in Southeast Asia”, 77th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, April 18-22, 2012
2009 Tremors of Change: Indigenous Peoples & Modernization, 8th International Graduate Student
Conference, East West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2009 (Hungyu Ru, Kua-Hung Chen, and da-Wei Kuan, co-organizers)
2006 Trade, Social Interaction, and Political Economy in Southeast Asian Archaeology, Indo-
Pacific Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 19-26, 2006 (Cy Calugay and Wannasarn Noonsuk, co-organizers)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2022 Panelist, How to Build a Career and Life in Archaeology: Tips from the Hired and Hirers for
BIPOC Archaeologists, Wener Gren Foundaiton for Anthropological Research, February 17, 2022.
2019- Center for Taiwan-Philippines Indigenous Knowledge, Local Knowledge, and
Sustainability (Co-organizer)
2016- Heritage Curriculum Workshops for Elementary and High School Teachers in Ifugao, Philippines
(Co-Organizer)
2015- Community Ethnography Workshops for Local Stakeholders, Ifugao, Philippines (co-organizer)
2011 Luce Foundation Initiative on Southeast Asian Archaeology Assessment Workshop,
Bangkok, Thailand, December 13-16, 2011 (co-organizer).
2011 NASA Space Archaeology Workshop. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October
8-10, 2011.
2009 Discussant. Status of Southeast Asian Archaeology at the University of Hawaii. Society
for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Honolulu, HI. October 9, 2009.
