SIR FLORO QUIBUYEN, KCR holds the Ph.D in Political Science and M.

A in
Anthropology (University of Hawaii at Manoa), B.A in Philosophy, minor in
Psychology (U.P Diliman), and the Diploma in Community Services Work (Sydney),
and had trained in Youth Mental Health First Aid and General First Aid.

Quibuyen was elected member of the Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society.
Then he was awarded the US Congress-funded East West Center Scholarship
Grant to pursue graduate studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa,
where he obtained his M.A. in Anthropology and PhD in Political Science.
Towards the end of his studies, Quibuyen received the Luce Research Award
from the University of Hawaii’s School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific
Studies.

Quibuyen’s publications on Rizal and Philippine history include (among others) A

Nation Aborted: Rizal, American Hegemony and Philippine Nationalism (Ateneo
Press, 2008); “and woman will prevail over man”: Symbolic Sexual Inversion and
Counter-Hegemonic Discourse in Mt. Banahaw (Center for Philippine Studies,
University of Hawaii at Manoa), ); ‘Japan and America in the Filipino Nationalist
Imagination: From Rizal to Ricarte’ in The Philippines and Japan in America’s
Shadow, edited by Kiichi Fujiwara and Yoshiko Nagano (National University of
Singapore Press, 2014);

In his 25 years of teaching, he had taught 29 undergraduate and graduate courses

across the disciplines, such as philosophy, mathematical logic, debating, art
appreciation, drama and cinema, filmmaking and photography, anthropology,
psychology, political science, and history (at the University of the Philippines,
University of Santo Tomas, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa). He had also
edited an academic journal and convened several academic conferences and
symposia.

Upon retiring from the academe (in 2008), Quibuyen has continued to write and
give lectures and seminars on Rizal and Philippine history and culture. He has also
done various volunteer work in the Philippines and Australia. His latest
preoccupation is the Research Institute for Sustainable Alernatives (RISAL—a
think tank on sustainability programs and policies)—which he co-founded. He is
currently the Chapter Historian of the Knights of Rizal – Sydney Chapter.