Alfred McCoy:

-Graduated from Yale with a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history

-Professor of Southeast Asia at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

-Director of the Center of Southeast Asia Studies

-Research focus is on the history of modern empires, Philippine political history, and global opium
trafficking.

-When the CIA tried to prevent the publication of his first book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
(New York, 1972), it caused a stir. However, after three English editions and translations into nine other
languages, this book is now considered a "classic" on worldwide drug trafficking.

-His research continues to be focused on the Philippines. An investigation into President Marcos'
"fabricated medals," which appeared on the front page of the New York Times only weeks before the
country's presidential elections (January 23, 1986), aided the country's shift away from authoritarian
control. The book, Closer than Brothers (New Haven, 1999), which examines the various coup attempts
that followed, illustrates the corrosive effect of torture on the Philippine military.

-Three of his edited volumes on Philippine history have won the National Book Award in that country.
The Goodman Prize for a "deep and persistent impact on Philippine historical studies" was awarded to
me by the Association for Asian Studies in 2001.

-In his book, Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the
Surveillance State (Madison, 2009), he analyzed the transformational force of police, information, and
scandal in building both the modern Philippine state and the United States' internal security system. The
Kahin Prize was given to that book by the Association for Asian Studies in 2011, and it was described as
"a passionate, elegantly written book that owes its mastery to McCoy's narrative and analytical gifts, his
years of painstaking research, and his sure sense of the ominous global implications of his story."

-In 2012, the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association presented me with the Wilbur Cross Medal,
which is given to "a small number of outstanding alumni" each year to recognize "distinguished
achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service." At the same time,
the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented him with the Hilldale Award for Arts and Humanities for
2012.

-To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change (Chicago, 2021), his most recent book,
examines how three factors—sovereignty, human rights, and energy—interacted to shape the
succession of empires and global systems from the Black Death of 1350 to the looming climatic disaster
of 2050.

-Interests are Modern Philippine social and political history, US foreign policy, Southeast Asian colonial
empires, worldwide illicit drug trafficking, and CIA covert operations.
Alfredo Roces:

-He was a painter, an essayist, and a versatile artist who is considered a prominent figure in Philippine
art.

-His paintings started with figurative style but soon began to combine expressionism, fauvism, and
impressionism.

-Co-author of Alfred McCoy in Philippine Cartoons: Political Caricatures of the American Era.

Caricature #3:

This third cartoon was a commentary on the unprecedented cases of colorum automobiles in the city
streets. The Philippine Free Press published this commentary when fatal accidents involving colorum
vehicles and taxis occurred too often already. It represents the new transportation system brought by
the Americans. Americans introduce to us the new transformation such as automobiles and other new
transportation system. Unregistered or “colorum” vehicles are hazardous to both drivers and passengers
as they make the streets more dangerous. Until this present day, colorums are still present and are
causing accidents.

Short personal learning / collective thoughts:

Caricature and cartoon, in graphic art, comically distorted drawing or likeness, done to satirize or
ridicule its subject. It is an integral component in the framework of political journalism. These are used
today primarily for conveying political commentary and editorial opinion in newspapers and for social
comedy and visual wit in magazines. Political cartoons can fulfill an important criticizing and controlling
function in society. Furthermore, political cartoons can aid in the formation of opinions and decision-
making, as well as give amusing insights into current events.