Professor Rey Ileto

REYNALDO C. ILETO received his PhD in Southeast Asian History from Cornell University in 1975. His major works include Magindanao, 1860-1888: The Career of Datu Uto of Buayan (1971, 2007); Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1840-1910 (1979, 2011); Filipinos and their Revolution: Event, Discourse, and Historiography (1998); and Knowledge and Pacification: On the U.S. Conquest and the Writing of Philippine History (2017). He also wrote “Religion and Anticolonial Movements” for the Cambridge History of Southeast Asia (1992) and Knowing America’s Colony, A Hundred Years from the Philippine War (1999).

Rey Ileto commenced his academic career in 1974 as Postdoctoral Fellow in the ANU's Department of Pacific History.  He then joined the History Department of the University of the Philippines in 1977 and then moved to James Cook University in 1986 to become Reader in History. In 1996-2007 he was Reader in Asian History at the ANU's Faculty of Asian Studies. From 2001 until his retirement in 2012, he was Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore

Ileto's publications have earned him the Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies (Association for Asian Studies, 1985), Masayoshi Ohira Prize (1986), Philippine National Book Award (1999), Fukuoka Asian Culture Academic Laureate (2003), and Grant Goodman Prize in Philippine History (Association for Asian Studies, 2011).

Ileto has held various visiting positions at Kyoto University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, University of Hawaii, University of California at Santa Cruz, and  the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. Since 2015, he has been Honorary Professor at the ANU's School of Culture, History & Language.

Religiopolitical Movements in Colonial Southeast Asia; 19th-century Spain and the Philippines; Philippine Revolution, 1896-98.; U.S.-Philippine relations, 1899 to present; History and Nation-building in the Philippines, 1898-2016; Domestic Practitioners of Southeast Asian Studies; Tagalog Metrical Romances; Uses of History in the South China Sea Conflict; Religion and Politics in the Philippines from 1872 to the present.