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UCLA Dissertations and Theses on the Philippines

Please note:
*This list includes dissertations and theses submitted prior to fall quarter 2007.
*The list of dissertations precedes the list of theses. All entries appear in alphabetical order by author’s family name.
*For more complete information on each entry, please consult the online catalog of the UCLA libraries.

Dissertations

Agbayani-Stewart, Pauline (Social Welfare, 1993)
“Filipino American Immigrants: Social Role Strain, Self-Esteem, Locus of Control, Social Networks, Coping, Stress, and Mental Health Outcome”

Aguas, Estrella Floro (Education, 1964)
“English Composition Errors of Tagalog Speakers and Implications for Analytical Theory”

Ancheta, Caridad A. (Epidemiology, 1998)
“Risk Behavior of HIV/AIDS among Returning Filipino Overseas Contract Workers”

Anderson, James N. (Anthropology, 1964)
“Kinship and Property in a Pangasinan Barrio”

Anderson, Tommy Ray (English, 1965)
“A Contrastive Analysis of Cebuano Visayan and English”

Aquino, Milagros Romaquin (Education, 1967)
“The Effect of Context on the Intelligibility of Selected English Words” (focus on speakers of Tagalog)

Bacolod, Marigee Ponla (Economics, 2002)
“Essays on Teacher Supply and Quality, and School Quality: Evidence from the United States and the Philippines”

Baluyut, Pearlie Rose S. (Art History, 2004)
“Institutions and Icons of Patronage: Arts and Culture in the Philippines during the Marcos Years, 1965-1986”

Boongium Tragoolvongse (Public Health, 1984)
“The Predictive Validity of Psycho-Social Factors on Fertility Behavior: A Longitudinal Study in the Philippines”

Borden, Karen Wells (Speech, 1972)
“Persuasive Appeals of Imperialist and Anti-Imperialist Congressmen in the Debates on Philippine Independence, 1912-1934”

Borja, Maridel Pasag (Epidemiology, 1998)
“HIV/AIDS Related Risk Profile and Correlates of Condom Use among Filipino Male Commercial Sex Workers”

Buenavista, Tracy Lachica (Education, 2007)
"Movement from the Middle : Pilipina/o 1.5-Generation College Student Access, Retention, and Resistance"

Castro, Christi-Anne Salazar (Music, 2001)
“Music, Politics, and the Nation at the Cultural Center of the Philippines”

Chiao, Chi (Public Health, 2005)
"An Exploration of Social Determinants of Sexual Health-Related Behaviors and Sexually Transmitted Infections among Female Sex Workers in the Philippines”

Choy, Catherine Ceniza (History, 1998)
“The Export of Womanpower: A Transnational History of Filipino Nurse Migration to the United States”

Dacanay, Fe R. (Education, 1969)
“A Methodology for Constructing Beginning English Readers for Philippine Schools”

Davis, Marian L. (Education, 1971)
“Attitudes toward Relationships among Prejudice, Political Socialization, and Education for Parenthood in Mindanao”

De Castro, Rosenda Alog (Education, 1970)
“A Computer-Based Methodology for a Word Count in Tagalog”

De la Cruz, Ernesto Sanchez (Education, 1963)
“Philippine Agriculture: Implications for Agricultural Schooling in a Province”

De Vera, Arleen Garcia (History, 2002)
“Constituting Community: A Study of Nationalism, Colonialism, Gender, and Identity among Filipinos in California, 1919-1946”

Diller, Timothy Clair (Linguistics, 1971)
“Case Grammar and Its Application to Waray, a Philippine Language”

Enrile, Annalisa Vicente (Social Welfare, 2006)
"Pilipino American Adolescents and Mental Health Well Being"

Espiritu, Augusto Fauni (History, 2000)
“‘Expatriate Affirmations’: The Performance of Nationalism and Patronage in Filipino-American Intellectual Life”

Eugenio, Damiana L. (English, 1965)
“Awit and Korido: A Study of Fifty Philippine Metrical Romances in Relation to Their Sources and Analogues”

Flores, Filemon Campo (Business Administration, 1968)
“Applicability of American Management Know-How to Developing Countries”

Fullante, Luis Cruz (Education, 1983)
“The National Language Question in the Philippines: 1936 to the Present”

Gaerlan, Barbara (Education, 1998)
“The Politics and Pedagogy of Language Use at the University of the Philippines: The History of English as the Medium of Instruction and the Challenge Mounted by Filipino”

Garcia, Delores Garcia (Education, 1972)
“An Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Economics and Economic Geography for Elementary Education in the Philippines”

Garr, Agustina Cunanan (Education, 1971)
“A Linguistic Analysis of English Monosyllabic Words for Comparative and Pedagogical Considerations” (focus on speakers of Tagalog)

Gomez Ramos, Paz (Education, 1959)
“A Curriculum for Professional Preparation in Health Education for the University of the Philippines”

Kim, Susan S (Sociology, 2006)
"Academic Achievement of Second Generation Filipino and Korean Americans : A Look at Immigrant Families and Communities"

Labrador, Roderick N. (Anthropology, 2003)
“Constructing ‘Home’ and ‘Homeland’: Identity-Making among Filipinos in Hawai’i”

Lee, Hye Kyung (Sociology, 1988)
“Socioeconomic Attainment of Recent Korean and Filipino Immigrant Men and Women in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, 1980”

Maceda, José (Music, 1963)
“The Music of the Magindanao in the Philippines”

Mulrooney, Virginia Frances (History, 1975)
“No Victor, No Vanquished: United States Military Government in the Philippine Islands, 1898-1901”

Otanes, Fe T. (English, 1966)
“A Contrastive Analysis of English and Tagalog Verb Complementation”

Parnes, Samuel Will (Music, 1999)
“A History of Filipino Rondalla Music and Musicians in Southern California”

Pastores, Elizabeth Agumo (History, 1992)
“Underdevelopment: The Brazilian and the Philippine Experience”

Poblete-Cross, JoAnna Uy
"Intra-Colonial Lives : Puerto Rican and Filipino Sugar Plantation Labor Recruits to Hawai’i, 1900 to 1940"

Revilla, Linda A. (Psychology, 1989)
“Manifestations of Ethnic Identity: Pilipino Americans”

Riddle, R. Elizabeth Wassenberg (Public Health, 1985)
“The Effects of Contraceptive Intent, Social Support, Conjugal Communication and Power, and Desire for More Children on Contraceptive Behavior in the Philippines”

Ruiz, Macario Bueno (Education, 1963)
“Weighting and Sequencing English-Tense Aspect Modifications for Hiligaynon Speakers”

Saniel, Ofelia Pardo (Epidemiology, 1996)
“Prevalence of HIV and Correlates of Condom Use among Commercial Sex Workers in Metro Manila, Philippines”

Schachter, Paul (English, 1960)
"A Contrastive Analysis of English and Pangasinan"

Sey, Kwa Abakah (Public Health, 2005)
“An Evaluation of Structural and Individual-Level HIV Interventions in the Philippines: Utilizing Mathematical Modeling to Estimate the Number of Averted Potential HIV Infections and the Cost per Averted Infection”

Shuman, Craig S. (Environmental Science & Engineering, 2003)
“The Marine Aquarium Trade in the Philippines: Balancing Ecological Impacts with Livelihood Opportunities”

Sodusta, Jesucita (Anthropology, 1976)
“Agricultural Ritual and Land Rights: The Perspective from Jamoyawon”

Teranishi, Robert Takumi (Education, 2001)
“’Raced’ Perspectives on College Opportunity: The Intersectionality of Ethnicity and Social Class among Asian Pacific Americans”

Tiger, Ray Lawrence (Sociology, 1979)
“The Filipino Community in Los Angeles: A Survey of Attitudes and Activities, 1978”

Tran Thanh Dang (Management, 1977)
“Ownership, Control and Performance of the Multinational Corporation: A Study of U.S. Wholly Owned Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures in the Philippines and Taiwan”

Trimillos, Ricardo Diosdado (Music, 1972)
“Tradition and Repertoire in the Cultivated Music of the Tausug of Sulu, Philippines”

Villalon, Aniceto Camacho (Education, 1969)
“A Proposed Model Counseling Program for the National Teachers College Manila, Philippines”

Wernstedt, Frederick L. (Geography, 1953)
“Agricultural Regionalism on Negros Island, Philippines”

Williams, Nancy Jarrell (Public Health, 1994)
“Employer Support for AIDS Prevention and Reported Condom Use among Entertainment Industry Workers in the Philippines”

Woods, Damon Lawrence (History, 1995)
“Tomás Pinpin and Librong Pagaaralan Nang Manga Tagalog Nang Uicang Castila: Tagalog Literacy and Survival in Early Spanish Philippines”

Woods, Fe Miguel (Education, 1971)
“First Language Interference with English Verbs and Personal Pronouns by Ilocano Students”

Woods, Lindsay Shelton (History, 1993)
“American Protestant Fundamentalism in an Ilocano Town: A Case Study”

Yoo, Sung-Sang (Education, 2006)
"Popular Education in Asia : A Comparative Study of Freirian Legacies in Popular Education of the Philippines and South Korea"

Zuraw, Kie Ross (Linguistics, 2000)
“Patterned Exceptions in Phonology” (focus on the Tagalog language)

Ago, Arthur Emmanuel (Asian American Studies, 1995)
“Filipino Amerasians in Olongapo, Philippines: A Study in Politics, Identity, and Imperial Discourse”

Akabane, Teruomi (Architecture, 1976)
“The International Design Competition for the Urban Environment of Developing Countries Focused on Manila”

Alsaybar, Bangele Deguzman (Asian American Studies, 1993)
“Satanas: Ethnography of a Filipino American Street Brotherhood in Los Angeles”

Alves, Anna Maria (Asian American Studies, 1999)
“In Search of ‘Meaning’: Collective Memory and Identity in Pilipino Cultural Night at UCLA”

Aquino, Allan (Asian American Studies, 2000)
“Filipino American Poetics: Roots, Adaptations, and Current State”

Atienza, Zenaida Suarez (Theater Arts, 1967)
“A Proposal for Training in Broadcast Education in the Philippines”

Azores-Gunter, Tania Fortunata M. (Architecture and Urban Planning, 1982)
“Filipino Education Study: A Study of Factors Affecting the Educational Aspirations of Filipino Twelfth Grade Students”

Baluyut, Pearlie Rose Salaveria (Art History, 1997)
“Juan Luna in Paris, 1884-1893: A Representation and Narrative of Becoming”

Bernaldo, Agnes Buzon (Teaching English as a Second Language, 1970)
“A Contrastive Analysis of Some American and Filipino Attitudes”

Cabuniag, Evelyn de Castro (Theater Arts, 1967)
“A Descriptive Study of the Television Curriculum, Theater Arts Department, UCLA, and Its Applicability to Training for Television in the Philippines”

Cabusao, Jeffery Arellano (Asian American Studies, 2001)
“Returns and Resistant Rearticulations: Asian American Studies, Carlos Bulosan, and Our Long Memory”

Calvani, Robert Murry (Architecture, 1975)
“A Comprehensive Plan for a Squatter Settlement in an Urban Context” (focus on Manila, Philippines)

Campbell, Myrtis Thomas (Teaching English as a Second Language, 1970)
“A Psycholinguistic Study of Achievement Motivation in Economic Development” (focus on speakers of Tagalog)

Cascolan, Minda Lopez (Education, 1961)
“Designing and Writing Philippine Third-Grade English Readers for Second Language Teaching”

Chiang, Judy Pei-Yun (Education, 1969)
“The Home Economics Education in the Philippines and in the Republic of China”

Collao, Hazel (Asian American Studies, 2001)
“God in the Details: An Ethnographic Study of Filipino-American Pentecostals”

Dadufalza, Natividad Dumlao (Education, 1965)
“Question Patterns in English and Tagalog: A Contrastive Analysis”

Davison, Mariquita Athena (Asian American Studies, 1993)
“Filipina Nurses—Voices of Struggle and Determination”

De Vera, Arleen Garcia (Asian American Studies, 1990)
“An Unfinished Agenda: Filipino Immigrant Workers in the Era of McCarthyism: A Case Study of the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, 1948-1955”

deGuzman, Jean-Paul (Asian American Studies, 2007)
"Journeys in Resistance : Asian American and Filipina American Counter-Stories from a Catholic High School"

Dumlao, Virginia Kay Calipusan (Asian American Studies, 1999)
“Voices of Home: Transnational Perspectives of Filipino American World War II Veterans”

Eloe, John Adam (Architecture, 1975)
“Dagat-Dagatan Resettlement Project: Housing the Urban Poor in Manila, Philippines”

Esperanza, Jennifer Santos (Anthropology, 1999)
“Kalayaan (Freedom): Discourses and Representations of Philippine History, Nationalism and Identity”

Espiritu, Augusto Fauni (Asian American Studies, 1992)
“The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Town Campaign in Los Angeles: A Study in Filipino American Leadership”

Fernandez, Felicidad Garcia (Education, 1961)
"The Aural Perception of English Phonemes by Hiligaynon Speakers of English"

Gibson, David Verner (Political Science, 1952)
“Factors in Political and Economic Reconstruction of the Philippines”

Gonzales, Jocelyn Annenera (Asian American Studies, 2000)
“Issues of Social Class and Curriculum in Zamora Linmark’s Novel Rolling the R’s”

Guiang, Evelyn Vitan (Education, 1963)
“Teaching the Stressing of English Nominal Compounds in the Philippine Elementary Schools”

Herbert, Annalissa Arangcon (Asian American Studies, 1996)
“Growing Up Brown in America: The Filipino-Mango Athletic Club of San Francisco 1938-1955”

Hunt, Faye Elizabeth (Art History, 2003)
“Marlon Fuentes’ ‘Bontoc Eulogy’: A Contemporary Intervention in the Evolution of the Filipino Modern”

Ibanez, Florante Peter (Asian American Studes, 2006)
"The Filipino American Library : Outreach and Access Via the World Wide Web"

Inocencio, Gina T. (Asian American Studies, 1999)
“Immigration and Life Satisfaction of Filipino American World War II Veterans in Los Angeles City”

Jorjorian, Anoosh (Culture & Performance, 2005)
“Flip(ping) Words, Performing Flip: Representation and Belonging in Filipino-American Spoken Word”

Lawsin, Emily (Asian American Studies, 2000)
“Beyond ‘Hanggang Pier Only’: Filipina American War Brides of Seattle, 1945-1965”

Loy, Walter Alfred (Political Science, 1949)
“The Philippines: Islands as an International Problem, 1922-1937”

Mabalon, Dawn Bohulano (Asian American Studies, 1997)
“Filipina Pioneers: The Pinay in Stockton, California, 1929-1946”

Magalong, Michelle G. (Urban Planning, 2003)
“In Search of ‘P-Town’: Filipino American Place(s) in Los Angeles”

Miguel, Fe Alejo (Education, 1967)
“The Influence of Bilingualism on Perception and Meaning” (focus on Tagalog-speaking Filipino Americans)

Miraflor, Marie Antoinette N. (Music, 1985)
“Filipino Folk Songs in the American Classroom”

Nubla, Gladys-Pamela Miranda (Asian American Studies, 2002)
“Hailing the Diasporic Nation: A Cultural History of Tagalog/Filipino in the United States”

Pettis, Rani Hathaway (Geology, 1985)
“Pleistocene Benthic Foraminifera of the Benham Rise, Western Philippine Basin, Western Pacific Ocean, DSDP Site 292 (Leg 31) and a Taxonomic Revision of the Unilocular Foraminifera”

Romaquin, Milagros Ruiz (Education, 1965)
“Filipino Aural-Oral Discrimination of Selected English Words”

Ross, Kie (Linguistics, 1996)
“Floating Phonotactics: Variability in Infixation and Reduplication of Tagalog Loanwords”

San Juan, Carolina deLeon (Dance, 2002)
“A Colonized Body’s Dance into Being: Negotiating Identity through Filipino American Ballroom Dance”

Santa Maria, Nathaniel Victor (Asian American Studies, 2001)
“Securing Their Future: Filipina Room Cleaners in San Francisco’s Hotel Industry”

Saranillio, Dean Itsuji (Asian American Studies, 2003)
“Colonial Amnesia: Filipino ‘Americans’ and the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement”

Serrano, Pacita Roldan (Nursing, 1987)
“Attitudes toward Divorce and Divorce Adjustment among Pilipino Americans”

Starner, Frances Lucille (Political Science, 1949)
“Currents in Philippine Politics, 1944-1948”

Talusan, Mary I. (Music, 1999)
“Reconstructing Identity: Appropriation and Representation of Kulintang Music in the United States”

Uy, Catherine T. (Art, 1971)
“[Record of Creative work in the Field of Design] : Mass Production in the Philippines”