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Deirdre de la Cruz is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan's Department of History. She specializes in the cultures and histories of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines. Her current book project involves a historical and ethnographic examination of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the Philippines from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the ways these events articulate practices of colonial, post-colonial, and modernity. In addition to Philippine history and ethnography, her research interests encompass theories of religion, colonialism and post-colonialism, visual culture, and the histories and theories of mass media and global occultisms.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science