Greg Bank Off

Curriculum Vitae
1. Personal Details
Name: Gregory Edward Alexis BANKOFF
Nationality: Australian & British
Correspondence Address: Department of History

University of Hull,
Hull, United Kingdom HU6 7RX
Telephone: Work: 0044-(0)1482-465693

Mobile: 0044-(0)794-2398243
Fax: 0044-(0)1482-466126
e-mail: g.bankoff@hull.ac.uk
2. Qualifications
Aug 1984 - Oct. 1990 Ph.D. Murdoch University, Western Australia (awarded
February 1991), thesis topic: 'Crime, Society & the State in
the Nineteenth Century Philippines'.
July 1983 - July 1984 Diploma in Education, Murdoch University, Western

Australia (Social Studies & English).
1977 - 1981 B.A. Honours Latin American Studies, Portsmouth

University UK. [1978-79 spent in Paraguay].
1970 – 1972 'A' Levels or equivalents: English & European History and
English Literature, Stafford College, London UK; Spanish,
Universidad Pontifica de Bogota, Colombia.
3. Present Appointment
July 2007 – Professor of Modern History, Department of History,
University of Hull, United Kingdom
Jan. 2008 – Visiting Professor of Asian Studies, Department of Modern

Languages & Cultures, University of Leeds, United
Kingdom
Sep. 2007 – Present Honorary Research Associate, School of Geography,

Geology and Environmental Sciences, University of
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
4. Career
Feb. 2002 – June 2007 Associate-Professor Southeast Asia, School of Asian
Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
July 2004 – 2006 Professor (Visiting) of Disaster Management, School of

Science & Environment, Coventry University, United
Kingdom
Sep. 2003- June 2004 Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced
Study, Wassenaar, Netherlands
July 2002 – July 2003 Research Fellow, Disaster Studies, Landbouw-universiteit

Wageningen, Wageningen, Netherlands
Feb. 1998 – Jan 2002 Senior Lecturer Southeast Asia, School of Asian Studies,
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Jan. 1994 – Jan 1998 Lecturer Southeast Asia, History, University of Auckland,
Auckland, New Zealand
May 1993 - Dec 1993 Lecturer Asian Studies, Australian Catholic University,
Mitchelton, Brisbane, Qld. 4053, Australia.
July 1991 - May 1993 Research Officer/Fellow, Murdoch University, Murdoch,

Perth WA 6150, Australia
Jan. 1991 - July 1991 Lecturer Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch,
Oct. 1990 - Dec. 1990 Teacher Social Studies, Swan View Senior High School,
Swan View, Perth, Australia
Feb. 1989 - Nov. 1989 Tutor Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Perth
WA 6150, Australia
Feb. 1986 - Nov. 1986 Teacher English, Guildford Grammar School, Guildford,
Feb. 1985 - July 1985 Research Officer, WA Legislative Assembly's Select

Committee on Small Claims Tribunals, Perth WA 6000,
Australia.
5. Fellowships, Research Grants and Scholarships
Fellowships
Adjunct professorship Distinguished Murdoch University, 2012-14
Research Western Australia AUD$30,00
Fellowship Scheme 0
Research Fellow Communicating Zentrum für Inter- June-July
Disasters disziplinäre 2011
Forschung, University
of Bielefeld
Research Fellow Environmental German Historical November-
History Institute, Washington December
DC 2005
Affiliated research Cultures of coping: International Institute September
fellowship Community and of Asian Studies 2004-July
disaster in the (IIAS) 2008
Philippines
Fellowship-in-residence The social Netherlands Institute September
construction of for Advanced Study 2003 to June
resources in the (NIAS) 2004
Philippines 1600-
1950
Research fellowship Cultures of disaster Wageningen July 2002 to
and vulnerability: University, July 2003
Mutualities of Netherlands
nature, knowledge
and practice in
Mozambique and
the Philippines
Research fellowship Discourses of Wageningen December
vulnerability University, 2001 to
(Mapping Netherlands February
Vulnerability: 2002
Disasters,
Development &
People)
Research Fellowship Creation of Ateneo de Manila December
departmental University, Manila, 2000 to
research agenda Philippines February
2001
Research fellowship Society and natural Wageningen July to
hazard in the University, November
Philippines Netherlands 2000
Research fellowship Society and natural Wageningen November
hazard in the University, 1998 to
Philippines Netherlands February
1999
Research
Grants
Arts & Local Governance and 2017- Hull, Manchester £450,000
Humanities Community 2020 & Northumbria
Research Resilience: How
Council Internal Drainage
Boards (IDBs) and
Communities
Managed Flooding in
England
Arts & Risk, Hazards, 2016- Bristol & Hull £49,000
Humanities Disasters and Cultures: 2018
Research Exploring an
Council Integrated Humanities,
Natural Science, and
Disaster Studies
Approach
Australian Hazards, Tipping 2016- Murdoch, ANU, AUD
Research Points, Adaptation and 2019 Hull, Ateneo de $374,516
Council Collapse in the Indo- Manila, Leiden,
Pacific World Nanyang, Kyoto,
Chandernagor
Institute
Natural Earthquakes Without July Cambridge, £3 million
Environment Frontiers: A 2012- Oxford, Durham,
Research Partnership for for 5 Hull, Leeds,
Council/ Increasing Resilience years Northumbria,
Economic and to Seismic Hazard in Overseas
Social Science the Continents Development
Council Institute, British
Geological
Survey
Zentrum für Cultures & Disasters July University of €30,000
Interdisziplinäre Workshop 2011 Bielefeld
Forschung,
Fondo de Red Sobre Riesgo y 2009- Instituto $1.6 million
Cooperación Vulnerabilidad: 2011 Politécnico Mexican
Internacional en Estrategias Sociales de Nacional pesos
Ciencia y Prevención y (Mexico),
Tecnología Adaptación Politecnico de
Union Europea- Milano, Renavl
México Institute
(FONCICYT) University of
Helsinki,
University of
Hull
Economic and Sub-Contracting Risk: 2008- Graham £90,000
Social Research Neo-liberal Policy 2010 Haughton, Tom
Council Agendas and the Coulthard, Greg
Changing Nature of Bankoff
Flood Risk
Management
New Zealand Sustainability and 2005- Willie Smith,
Ministry of Resilience in the 06 Greg Bankoff & NZ$55,000
Agriculture & Greater Manawatu Alex Mackay
Forestry Floods of Feb 2004
Auckland ‘The Enemy of Man’: 2005- Greg Bankoff NZ$7,000
University Spanish and American 06
Research Forest Policy in the
Committee Philippines 1565-1946
University of The Historical 2005- Greg Bankoff & ₤3,000
Nottingham Reconstruction of 06 Georgina
Climate Variations in Endfield
the Pacific 1700-1800
Auckland Sailors as Agents of 2002- Greg Bankoff Approx
University Cultural Exchange 04 NZ$8,500
Research between Philippines
Committee and Mexico 2#
Vice Tales of Land and Sea: 2002 Drs. Matthew NZ $10,000

Chancellor’s Travel Narratives and O’Meagher,
University Life-Stories of the Kathryn Lehman
Development Trans-Pacific “South”, and Ricardo
Fund 2002 1700-1900 Cicerchia and Dr.
Greg Bankoff
Auckland Sailors as Agents of 2001 Greg Bankoff Approx
University Cultural Exchange NZ$7,000
Research between Philippines
Committee and Mexico 1
Auckland Celebrating the 1999 Greg Bankoff Approx
University Centennial of NZ$5,000
Research Philippine
Committee Independence
Auckland The Philippine 1998 Greg Bankoff Approx
University Centenary: Imaging the NZ$5,000
Research Past’
Committee
Auckland Ecology of the 1996 Greg Bankoff Approx
University Philippines NZ$5,000
Research
Committee
NZ Government International relations 1996- Greg Bankoff NZ $10,000
Asia 2000 99
Auckland Environmental Impact 1994 Greg Bankoff Approx
University of Spanish Colonialism NZ$5,000
Research in the Philippines
Committee
Indian Ocean Land conversion 1993- Greg Bankoff Approx
Centre For Peace 94 AUD$4,000
Studies
Scholarships
Murdoch Post-Graduate 1985- Greg Bankoff Approx
University Post- Scholarship 89 AUD$5,000
Graduate pa
Scholarship
6. Honours & Prizes

1996 Auckland University Distinguished Teaching Award.
2009 Vice-Chancellor’s Environmental Prize (Tom Coulthard, Lynne Frostick,
Graham Haughton and Greg Bankoff) £5000
7. Professional Activities
1992 – 1993 Conference Convenor, Asian Studies Association of Australia
1992 – 1994 Treasurer, Philippine Studies Association of Australia
2001 – 2005 International Organising Committee of Philippine Studies
2003 – 2004 Organising Committee (Advisory Committee) 7 th International Conference
on Philippine Studies (ICOPHIL)
8. Publications
(i) Books and monographs
1. Greg Bankoff and Joe Christensen (eds.) Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian
Ocean World: Bordering on Danger. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
2. Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa F. Schipper
(eds.) Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk
Reduction. New York and London: Routledge, 2015.
3. Terry Cannon Lisa Schipper, Greg Bankoff and Fred Krueger (eds.) World Disaster
Report 2014: Focus on Culture and Risk. Geneva: International Federation of the
Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2014.
4. Greg Bankoff, Uwe Luebken and Jordan Sand (eds.) Flammable Cities: Urban Fire
and the Making of the Modern World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
2012.
5. Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard (eds.) A History of Natural Resources in Asia:
The Wealth of Nature. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.
6. Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart (with Peter Boomgaard, William Gervase Clarence-
Smith, Bernice de Jong Boers and Dhiravat na Pombejra), Breeds of Empire: The
‘Invention’ of the Horse in Maritime Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-
1950. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2007.
7. Greg Bankoff & Kathleen Weekley, Celebrating the Centennial of Independence:

Post-Colonial National Identity in the Philippines, Manila: De La Salle University
Press, [Filipino edition of the Ashgate/Gower publication], 2004.
8. Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Thea Hilhorst (eds.), Mapping Vulnerability:
Disasters, Development and People, London: Earthscan, 2004
9. Greg Bankoff, Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines,
London: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2003.
10. Greg Bankoff & Kathleen Weekley, Post-Colonial National Identity in the
Philippines: Celebrating the Centennial of Independence, Aldershot, Hampshire:
Ashgate/Gower, 2002.
11. Greg Bankoff, Crime, Society and the State in the Nineteenth Century Philippines,
Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press: 1996, 2000 (second edition).
12. Greg Bankoff & Kylie Elston, Environmental Regulation in Malaysia and
Singapore, Perth: University of Western Australian Press, 1994.
13. Greg Bankoff & Kylie Elston, Environmental Regulation in Malaysia, Perth: Asia
Research Centre on Social, Political and Economic Change, 1993.
14. Greg Bankoff, In Verbo Sacerdotis: the Judicial Power of the Catholic Church in
the Nineteenth Century Philippines, Darwin: Northern Territory University, Centre
For Southeast Asian Studies, Monograph Series No.2, 1992.
(ii) Published articles

Published:
1. Greg Bankoff, “Aeolian Empires: The Influence of Winds and Currents on European
Maritime Expansion in the Days of Sail”, Environment and History, 23, 2, 2017,
pp.163-196.
2. Greg Bankoff, ‘Hazardousness of Place: A New Comparative Approach to the

Filipino Past’, Philippine Studies, 3-4, 2016, pp. 335-357.
3. Greg Bankoff, Wind, Water and Risk: Shaping a Transnational-environmental

History of the Western North Pacific, TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National
Studies of Southeast Asia, 4, 1 2016, pp. 187-207.
4. Greg Bankoff, ‘“Lahat para sa Lahat” (Everything to Everybody): Consensual

Leadership, Social Capital and Disaster Risk Reduction in a Filipino Community’,
Disaster Prevention and Management, 24, 4, 2015, pp.430 – 447.
5. Graham Haughton, Greg Bankoff and Tom Coulthard ‘In Search of “Lost”
Knowledge and Outsourced Expertise in Flood Risk Management’, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, 40, 3, 2015, pp.375–386 & online:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tran.12082/pdf
6. Greg Bankoff, ‘Deep Forestry: Shapers of the Philippine Forests’, Environmental

History, 18, 3, 2013, pp.523-556, doi:10.1093/envhis/emt037.
7. Greg Bankoff, ‘The “English Lowlands” and the North Sea Basin System: A History
of Shared Risk’, Environment and History, 19, 1, 2013, pp.3-37.
8. Greg Bankoff, ‘Storm over San Isidro: Civic Community and Disaster Risk
Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’, Journal of Historical Sociology,
25, 3, 2012, pp.331-351, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2012.01422.x
9. Willie Smith, Christian Davies-Colley, Alec Mackay, and Greg Bankoff, ‘The Social
Impact of the 2004 Manawatu Floods and the “Hollowing-out” of Rural New
Zealand’, Disasters, 35, 3, 2011, pp.540-553.
10. Greg Bankoff, ‘No Such Things as “Natural Disasters”: Why We Had to Invent
Them’, Harvard International Review, 24 August 2010, http://hir.harvard.edu/no-
such-thing-as-natural-disasters.
11. Greg Bankoff, ‘First Impressions: Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the
Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902’, Journal of
Pacific History, 44, 3, 2009, pp.261-280.
12. Greg Bankoff and Dorothea Hilhorst, ‘The Politics of Risk in the Philippines:
Comparing State and NGO Perceptions of Disaster Management’, Disasters, 33, 4,
2009, pp. 686-704.
13. Greg Bankoff, ‘Breaking New Ground? Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of “Empire
Forestry” in the Philippines, 1900-1905’, Environment and History, 15, 3, 2009,
pp.369-393.
14. Greg Bankoff, ‘A Month in the Life of José Salud, Forester in the Spanish
Philippines, July 1882’, Global Environment, 3, 2009, pp.8-47.
15. Greg Bankoff, ‘Fire and Quake in the Construction of Old Manila’, Medieval History
Journal, 10, 1/2, 2007, pp.411-427.
16. Greg Bankoff, ‘Comparing Vulnerabilities: Toward Charting an Historical Trajectory

of Disasters’, Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 32, 3, 2007,
pp.103-114.
17. Greg Bankoff, ‘Living with Risk; Coping with Disasters: Hazard as a Frequent Life
Experience in the Philippines’, Education About Asia, 12, 2, 2007, pp.26-29.
18. Greg Bankoff, ‘Bodies on the Beach: Domesticates and Disasters in the Spanish
Philippines 1750-1898’, Environment and History, 13, 3, 2007, pp.285-306.
19. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Dangers of Going It Alone: Social Capital and the Origins of
Community Resilience in the Philippines’, Continuity and Change, 22, 2, 2007,
pp.327-355.
20. Greg Bankoff, ‘One Island Too Many: Reappraising the Extent of Deforestation in
the Philippines Prior to 1946’, Journal of Historical Geography, 33, 2, 2007, pp.314-
334.
21. Greg Bankoff, ‘Constructing Vulnerability: The Historical, Natural and Social
Generation of Flooding in Metro Manila’, Philippine Geographical Journal, 49, 1/4,
2005 [published 2007 – initially published in Disasters (2003)], pp.70-82.
22. Greg Bankoff, ‘Cultures of Coping: Adaptation to Hazard and Living with Disaster in the
Philippines’, Philippine Sociological Review, 51, 1/4, 2003 [published 2006], pp.1-16.
23. Greg Bankoff, ‘Winds of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spain’s
Imperium in the Pacific, 1521-1898’, Environment and History, 12, 1, 2006, pp.65-
88.
24. Greg Bankoff, ‘“These Brothers of Ours”: Poblete’s Obreros and the Road to Baguio
1903-1905’, Journal of Social History, 38, 4, 2005, pp.1047-1072.
25. Greg Bankoff, ‘Depends Which Way the Winds Blow: The Shape of Spain’s
Imperium in the Pacific 1521-1898’, Mains’l Haul A Journal of Pacific Maritime
History, 41, 4, 2005, pp.14-23.
26. Greg Bankoff, ‘“The Tree as the Enemy of Man”: Changing Attitudes to the Forests
of the Philippines 1565-1898’, Philippine Studies, 53, 1, 2005, pp.321-345.
27. Greg Bankoff, ‘Wants, Wages and Workers: Laboring in the American Philippines,
1899-1908’, Pacific Historical Review, 74, 1, 2005, pp.59-86.
28. Greg Bankoff, ‘Time is of the Essence: Disasters, Vulnerability and History’,
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 22, 3, 2004, pp.23-42.
29. Greg Bankoff, ‘Bestia Incognita: The Horse and Its History in the Philippines 1880-
1930’, Anthrozoös, 17, 1, 2004, pp.3-25.
30. Greg Bankoff, ‘In the Eye of the Storm: The Social Construction of the Forces of
Nature and the Climatic and Seismic Construction of God in the Philippines’,
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 35, 1, 2004, pp.91-111
31. Greg Bankoff, ‘Vulnerability as a Measure of Change in Society’, International

Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 21, 2, 2003, pp.5-30.
32. Greg Bankoff, ‘“Regions of Risk”: Western Discourses on Terrorism and the
Significance of Islam’, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 26, 6, 2003, pp.411-426.
33. Greg Bankoff, ‘Constructing Vulnerability: The Historical, Natural and Social
Generation of Flooding in Metro Manila’, Disasters, 27, 3, 2003, pp.224-238.
34. Greg Bankoff, ‘Discoursing Disasters: Paradigms of Risk and Coping’, Trialog A
Journal for Planning and Building in the Third World, 73, II, 2002, pp.3-7.
35. Greg Bankoff, ‘Selective Memory and Collective Forgetting: Historiography and the
Philippine Centennial of 1898’, Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde,
157, 3, 2001, pp.21-42.
36. Greg Bankoff, ‘A Question of Breeding: Zootechny and Colonial Attitudes towards
the Tropical Environment in Late Nineteenth Century Philippines’, Journal of Asian
Studies, 60, 2, 2001, pp.413-437.
37. Greg Bankoff, ‘Rendering the World Unsafe: “Vulnerability” as Western Discourse’,
Disasters, 25, 1, 2001, pp.19-35.
38. Greg Bankoff, ‘A History of Poverty: the Politics of Natural Disasters in the
Philippines, 1985-1995’, The Pacific Review, 12, 3, 1999, pp.381-420.
39. Greg Bankoff, ‘Devils, Familiars and Spaniards: Spheres of Power and the
Supernatural in the World of Seberina Candelaria and her Village in Early 19th
Century Philippines’, Journal of Social History, 33, 1, Fall 1999, pp.37-55.
40. Greg Bankoff, ‘Societies in Conflict: Algae and Humanity in the Philippines’,
Environment and History, 5, 1, 1999, pp.97-123.
41. Greg Bankoff, ‘History at the Service of the Nation State: the Philippine Centennial
of 1898’, Public Policy, 2, 4, 1998, pp.28-58.
42. Greg Bankoff, ‘Bandits, Banditry and Landscapes of Crime in 19th Century
Philippines’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 29, 2, 1998, pp.319-339.
43. Greg Bankoff, ‘Legacy of the Past, Promise of the Future: Land Reform, Land
Grabbing and Land Conversion in the Calabarzon’, Bulletin of Concerned Asian
Scholars, 28, 1, 1996, pp.39-51.
44. Greg Bankoff, ‘Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in Maritime
Southeast Asia’, Environmental History Review, 19, 3, Fall 1995, pp.17-37.
45. Greg Bankoff, ‘Inside the Courtroom: Judicial Procedures in Nineteenth Century
Philippines’, Philippine Studies, 41, 3, 1993, pp.287-304.
46. Greg Bankoff, ‘Big Fish in Small Ponds: the Exercise of Power in a Nineteenth
Century Philippine Municipality’, Modern Asian Studies, 4, 26, October 1992,
pp.679-700.
47. Greg Bankoff, ‘Servant-Master Conflicts in Manila in the Late Nineteenth Century’,
Philippine Studies, 40, 3, 1992, pp.281-301.
48. Greg Bankoff, ‘Households of Ill-Repute: Rape, Prostitution and Marriage in the
Nineteenth Century Philippines’, Pilipinas, 17, Fall 1991, pp.35-49.
49. Greg Bankoff, ‘Deportation and the Prison Colony of San Ramon’, Philippine
Studies, 39, 4, October 1991, pp.443-457.
50. Greg Bankoff, ‘Redefining Criminality: Gambling and Financial Expediency in the
Colonial Philippines 1764-1898’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 22, 2,
September 1991, pp.267-281.
51. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Nineteenth Century in Philippine Historiography: A Question of
Methodology and Approach’, ASAA Review, 13, 2, 1989, pp.1-7.
(iii) Chapters in books

1. Greg Bankoff, ‘Natural Hazard Research’ in Noel Castree, Mike Hulme and James
Proctor (eds.) The Companion to Environmental Studies, London & New York:
Routledge, forthcoming 2017.
2. Greg Bankoff, ‘Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk
Societies’, in Gerrit J. Schenk (ed.) Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a
Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters across Asia and Europe
Heidelberg: Springer, 2017, pp.45-59.
3. Greg Bankoff and George Emmanuel Borrinaga, ‘Whethering the Storm: The Twin
Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda’ in Gregory Button and Mark Schuller
(eds.) Contextualizing Disasters, New York: Berghahn, 2016, pp.44-65.
4. Greg Bankoff and Joseph Christensen, ‘Bordering on Danger: An Introduction’ in

Greg Bankoff and Joe Christensen (eds.) Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian
Ocean World: Bordering on Danger. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016, pp.1-30.
5. Greg Bankoff, ‘Storm over San Isidro: Repeated “Disasters” and Civic Community
Culture in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’ in Greg Bankoff and Joe Christensen
(eds.) Natural Hazards and Peoples in the Indian Ocean World: Bordering on
Danger. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 199-224.
6. Greg Bankoff, ‘Design by Disasters: Seismic Architecture and Cultural Adaptation to

Earthquakes’ in Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E.
Lisa F. Schipper (eds.) Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings
in Disaster Risk Reduction London: Routledge, 2015, pp.53-71.
7. Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Fred Krüger, E. Lisa F. Schipper ‘Introduction:

Exploring the Links between Cultures and Disasters’ in Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff,
Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa F. Schipper (eds.|) Cultures and
Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction London:
Routledge, 2015, pp.1-16.
8. Greg Bankoff, ‘Deep Forestry: Shaping the Longue Durée of the Forest in the
Philippines’, in Peter Boomgaard, David Henley, Henk Schulte Nordholt (eds.)
Southeast Asia: The Longue Durée. Leiden; KITLV Press, 2015, pp.15-31.
9. Ira Helsloot, Greg Bankoff and Jelle Groenendaal, ‘Dealing with Citizen Response
and Evacuation during Large Scale Flooding in Industrial Societies’, in Joost Bierens
(eds.) Drowning: Prevention, Rescue, Treatment, Dordrecht: Springer, 2015,
pp.967-977.
10. Greg Bankoff, ‘Breaking New Ground? Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of “Empire
Forestry” in the Philippines, 1900-1905’ in Trees: Themes in Environmental
History, White Horse Press, 2015, pp.342-364.
11. Greg Bankoff, Randolph Langenbach and Maggie Stephenson, ‘Culture, Risk and the
Built Environment’ in Terry Cannon, Lisa Schipper, Greg Bankoff and Fred Krueger
(eds.) World Disaster Report 2014: Culture and Risk. Geneva: International
Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 2014, 121-151.
12. Greg Bankoff, ‘Learning about Disasters from Animals’, in Heike Egner, Marén
Schorch and Martin Voss (eds.) Learning and Calamities. Practices, Interpretations,
Patterns, New York and London: Routledge, 2014, 42-55.
13. Greg Bankoff, ‘Bodies on the Beach: Domesticates and Disasters in the Spanish
Philippines 1750-1898’, in Animals: Themes in Environmental History, White
Horse Press, 2014, 21-41.
14. Greg Bankoff, ‘Disaster Medicine in Southeast Asia’, in Tim Harper and Sunil
Amrith (eds.) Histories of Health in Southeast Asia: Perspectives on the Long
Twentieth Century. Indiana University Press, 2014, 115-133.
15. Greg Bankoff, ‘Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature
Conservation and Environmental Diplomacy in the Twenty-first Century’ in Mark
Lawrence, Erika Marie Bsumek and David Kinkela (eds.) The Nation-State and the
Transnational Environment: Balancing Power and Nature, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2013, 76-96.
16. Greg Bankoff, ‘The “Three Rs” and the Making of a New World Order: Reparation,
Reconstruction, Relief and U.S. Policy, 1945-1952’, in Alfred McCoy, Josep Fradera
and Steven Jacobson (eds.) Endless Empire: Spain’s Retreat, Europe's Eclipse,
America's Decline, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, 321-333.
17. Greg Bankoff ‘“For the Good of the Barrio”: Community Associations and the State
in the Rural Philippines 1935-1965’ in Els Bogaerts and Remco Raben (eds.) Beyond
Empire and Nation: Decolonizing Societies in Africa and Asia, 1930s-1970s.
Leiden: KITLV Press, 2012, 167-188.
18. Jordan Sand, Uwe Luebken and Greg Bankoff, ‘Introduction: Flammable Cities,
Introduction’ in Greg Bankoff, Uwe Luebken and Jordan Sand (eds.) Flammable
Cities: Urban Fire and the Making of the Modern World, Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2012, 3-20.
19. Greg Bankoff, ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic Morphology of Nineteenth
Century Manila’ in Greg Bankoff, Uwe Luebken and Jordan Sand (eds.) Flammable
Cities: Urban Fire and the Making of the Modern World, Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 2012, 170-189.
20. Greg Bankoff, ‘Big Men, Small Horses: Ridership, Social Standing and
Environmental Adaptation in the Early Modern Philippines’ in Peter Edwards, Karl
Enenkel and Elspeth Graham (eds.) The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and
Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World, Leiden: Brill, 2011, 91-120.
21. Greg Bankoff, ‘Historical Concepts of Disasters and Risk’ in Ben Wisner, Jean-
Christophe Gaillard and Ilan Kelman (eds.) Handbook of Natural Hazards and
Disaster Risk Reduction, London and New York: Routledge, 2011, 31-41.
22. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Science of Nature and Nature of Science in the Spanish and
American Philippines at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’ in Christina Ax, Niels
Brimnes, Niklas T. Jensen and Karen Oslund (eds.) Cultivating the Colony: Colonial
States and their Environmental Legacies, Ohio University Press, 2011, 78-108.
23. Greg Bankoff, ‘Devils, Familiars and Spaniards: Spheres of Power and the
Supernatural in the World of Seberina Candelaria and her Village in Early 19th
Century Philippines’ in Elizabeth Koepping (ed.) World Christianity, Routledge,
London, Volume 2, Part 9, 2010.
24. Greg Bankoff, ‘A Curtain of Silence: The Fate of Asia’s Fauna in the Cold War’ in
John McNeill and Corinna Unger (eds.) Environmental Histories of the Cold War,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.203-226.
25. Greg Bankoff, ‘Vorzeichen für das neue Jahrhundert? Der Tsunami im Indischen
Ozean 2004 und der Hurrikan Katrina im Golf von Mexiko 2005’(The Indian Ocean
Tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico 2005: Portends of the
New Century?) in Gerrit Jasper Schenk (ed.) Katastrophen: Vom Untergang
Pompejis bis zum Klimawandel, Ostfildern: Thorbecke, 2009, pp.191-204.
26. Greg Bankoff, ‘Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflict on the Forests of the
Philippines, 1600-1946’ in Charles Closmann (ed.) War and the Environment:
Military Destruction in the Modern Age. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M
University Press, 2009, pp.32-48.
27. Greg Bankoff, ‘Conservation and Colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of
Tropical Forestry in the Philippines’ in Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco Scarano
(eds.) Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State,
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009, pp.479-488.
28. Greg Bankoff, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life
Experience in the Philippines, 1600-2000’ in Christof Mauch and Christian Pfister
(eds.) Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global
Environmental History, Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2009, pp. 265-284.
29. Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart, ‘Breeds of Empire and the “Invention” of the Horse’
in Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart (eds.) Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the
Horse in Maritime Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950. Copenhagen:
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2007, pp.1-18.
30. Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart, ‘“Together yet Apart”: Towards a Horse-story’ in
Greg Bankoff and Sandra Swart (eds.) Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the
Horse in Maritime Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950. Copenhagen:
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2007, pp.153-154.
31. Greg Bankoff, ‘Colonizing New Lands: Horses in the Philippines’ in Greg Bankoff
and Sandra Swart (eds.) Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the Horse in
Maritime Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950. Copenhagen: Nordic
Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2007, pp. 85-103.
32. Greg Bankoff, ‘Adapting to a New Environment: The Philippine Horse’ in Greg
Bankoff and Sandra Swart (eds.) Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the Horse in
Maritime Southeast Asia and Southern Africa, 1500-1950. Copenhagen: Nordic
Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2007, pp.105-121.
33. Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard. ‘Introduction: Natural Resources and the Shape
of Asian History 1500-2000’ in Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard (eds.) A History
of Natural Resources in Asia: The Wealth of Nature. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007,
pp.1-17.
34. Greg Bankoff, ‘Almost an Embarrassment of Riches: Changing Attitudes to the

Forests in the Spanish Philippines’ in Greg Bankoff and Peter Boomgaard (eds.) A
History of Natural Resources in Asia: The Wealth of Nature. Palgrave-Macmillan,
2007, pp.103-122.
35. Greg Bankoff, ‘“Regions of Risk”: Western Discourses on Terrorism and the
Significance of Islam’ in Angela Stock and Cornelia Stott (eds.), Representing the
Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster. Frankfurt/M, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New
York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2007, pp.191-210..
36. Greg Bankoff, ‘Storms of History: Society and Weather in the Philippines 1565-
1930’ in Peter Boomgaard (ed.) Water in Maritime Southeast Asian Societies, Past
and Present. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2007, pp.153-183.
37. Greg Bankoff, ‘Depends Which Way the Winds Blow: The Shape of Spain’s
Imperium in the Pacific 1521-1898’, in Mark Allen and Raymond Starr (eds.) Spain’s
Legacy in the Pacific, San Diego: San Diego Maritime Museum, 2005, pp.14-23.
38. Greg Bankoff, ‘Profiting from Disasters: Corruption, Hazard and Society in the
Philippines’ in Nicholas Tarling (ed.) Corruption and Good Governance in Asia,
Abingdon and NY: Routledge, 2005, pp.165-185.
39. Greg Bankoff, ‘Horsing Around: The Life and Times of the Horse in the Philippines
at the Turn of the 20th Century’ in Peter Boomgaard and David Henley (eds)
Smallholders and Stockbreeders Histories of Foodcrop and Livestock Farming in
Southeast Asia, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004, pp.233-255.
40. Greg Bankoff and Thea Hilhorst, ‘Mapping Vulnerability in Greg Bankoff, Georg
Frerks and Thea Hilhorst (eds.), Mapping Vulnerability Disasters, Development and
People, London: Earthscan, 2004, pp.1-9.
41. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Historical Geography of Disaster: “Vulnerability” and “Local
Knowledge” in Western Discourse’ in Greg Bankoff, Georg Frerks and Thea Hilhorst
(eds.), Mapping Vulnerability Disasters, Development and People, London:
Earthscan, 2004, pp.25-36.
42. Greg Bankoff, ‘Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in Maritime
Southeast Asia’ in John McNeil (ed.) Environmental History in the Pacific World;
The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900,
Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2001, pp.121-141.
43. Greg Bankoff, ‘Environment, Resources and Hazards’ in Patrick Heenan and
Monique Lamontage (eds.) The Southeast Asian Handbook, London and Chicago:
Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001, pp.179-192.
44. Greg Bankoff, ‘In Search of the Masses: Non-confrontational Forms of Dissent in
Late 19th Century Philippines’ in Elmer A. Ordoñez (ed.), The Philippine Revolution
and Beyond, Manila: National Commission For Culture & The Arts, 1998, volume 1,
pp.229-244.
45. Greg Bankoff, ‘Land in the Calabarzon. Legacy of the Past, Promise of the Future:
Land Reform, Land Grabbing and Land Conversion’ in Catherine Iorns Magallanes
and Malcolm Hollick (eds.), Land Conflicts in Southeast Asia. Indigenous Peoples,
Environment and International Law, Bangkok: White Lotus Books, 1998, pp.119-
149.
46. Greg Bankoff, ‘Europe’s Expanding Resource Frontier: Colonialism and
Environment in Southeast Asia’ in Brook Barrington (ed.) Empires, Imperialism and
Southeast Asia, Melbourne, Monash Asia Institute, 1997, pp.83-100.
(iv) Published conference proceedings

1. Greg Bankoff and Thea Hilhorst, ‘Differing Perceptions of Disaster Preparedness,
Management and Recovery: the Case of the Philippines and its Applicability to New
Zealand’ in Sarah Norman, (ed.) NZ Recovery Symposium 2004 Proceedings,
MCDEM, New Zealand, 2004, pp220-232.
2. Greg Bankoff, ‘Profiting From Disasters in the Contemporary Philippines’, Linkages

in Development. Issues of Governance. Proceedings of the Aotearoa New Zealand
International Development Studies Network, University of Auckland, 20-21
February 1998, pp.43-48.
3. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Columbian Legacy in Asia: A Model of the Colonial State in the
Nineteenth Century Philippines’ in Anthony Disney (ed.), Columbus and the
Consequences of 1492. Melbourne, La Trobe University, 1994, pp.64-79.
(v) Other articles

1. Greg Bankoff, ‘Fires Disproportionately Kill Vulnerable People, and Grenfell is No
Different’, Open Democracy, 4 July 2017, available at:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/greg-bankoff/fires-disproportionately-kill-
vulnerable-people-and-grenfell-is-no-different
2. Greg Bankoff, ‘What Hurricane Matthew’s Path through Haiti and the US Tells Us
about Global Inequality’, The Conversation, 13 October 2016, available at:
https://theconversation.com/what-hurricane-matthews-path-through-haiti-and-the-us-
tells-us-about-global-inequality-58123
3. Graham Haughton, Tom Coulthard and Greg Bankoff, ‘Entering the Murky Waters of
Flood Policy, Town and Country Planning 83, 8 August 2014, pp.336-340.
4. Greg Bankoff, ‘Future-Quake: The Tokyo Bay Mega-Quake of 20-Something,

undated’ Global Environment, 11, 2013, pp.212-214.
5. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Tale of Three Pigs: Taking Another Look at Vulnerability in the
Light of the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina’, Understanding Katrina,
Perspectives from the Social Sciences, Social Sciences Research Council, 11 June
2006, available at: http://understandingkatrina.ssrc.org/Bankoff/#E*
6. Greg Bankoff, ‘Local Associations and the Provision of Social Services in the Rural
Philippines, 1565-1964’, IISAS Newsletter, 34, July 2004, p.19.
7. Greg Bankoff, ‘Vulnerability and Flooding in Metro Manila’, IISAS Newsletter, 31,
July 2003, p.11.
8. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Missing Past of 1872’, Newsbreak (Special edition ‘The Faces of
Mindanao’), January-June 2003, p.78.
9. Greg Bankoff, ‘Expo Pilipino and the Re-Colonisation of the Past’ Pinoy-Rin Net, 27
July 2001, http://www.pinoy-rin.net/diversity.asp?cArticleID=AR00000121, 4 pages.
10. Greg Bankoff, ‘Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines’,
Indonesian Environmental History Newsletter, 15, June 2001, pp.13-15.
(vi) Encyclopedias
1. Greg Bankoff, ‘Natural Hazards’ (2000 word essay) in Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves
Saunier (eds.) The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History. New York:
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009, pp.753-756.
2. Greg Bankoff, ‘Friars, Spanish (The Philippines)’ (medium entry 1,600-1,800 words)
in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.) Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat
to East Timor, 3 vols. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 1, pp.524-527.
3. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Galleon Trade, Spurring Asia-Pacific Commercial Links’

(medium entry 1,600-1,800 words) in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.) Southeast Asia: A
Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor, 3 vols. Santa Barbara,
California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 1, pp.534-537.
4. Greg Bankoff, ‘Ilustrados, The “Enlightened Ones”’ (short entry 750-800 words) in
Ooi Keat Gin (ed.) Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to
East Timor, 3 vols. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 2, pp.632-633.
5. Greg Bankoff, ‘Friar-Secular Relationship’ (short entry 750-800 words) in Ooi Keat
Gin (ed.) Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East
Timor, 3 vols. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 1, pp.527-528.
6. Greg Bankoff, ‘Bourbon Reforms’ (short entry 750-800 words) in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.)
Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor, 3 vols.
Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 1, pp.247-249.
7. Greg Bankoff, ‘Indulto de Comercio’ (brief entry 250-300 words) in Ooi Keat Gin
(ed.) Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor, 3
vols. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 2, pp.661-662.
8. Greg Bankoff, ‘Inquilino’ (brief entry 250-300 words) in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.)
Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 2, p.662.
9. Greg Bankoff, ‘Pactos de Retro, Contract or Resale’ (brief entry 250-300 words) in
Ooi Keat Gin (ed.) Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to
East Timor, 3 vols. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 2, p1007.
10. Greg Bankoff, ‘Consulado’ (brief entry 250-300 words) in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.)
11. Greg Bankoff, ‘Caciques’ (brief entry 250-300 words) in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.)
12. Greg Bankoff, ‘Residencia’ (brief entry 250-300 words) in Ooi Keat Gin (ed.)
Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2004: 3, p1144.
(vii) Reports
1. Tom Coulthard, Lynne Frostick, Harold Hardcastle, Kath Jones, Dave Rodgers,
Malcolm Scott, Greg Bankoff, The June 2007 Floods in Hull: Final Report by the
Independent Review Body 21 November 2007, Independent Report Commissioned by
the Hull City Council, November 2007.
2. Willie Smith, Alec Mackay and Greg Bankoff, Community Resilience and Response
in the Aftermath of the 2004 Manawatu Floods, Contract Report For The New
Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, January, 2007.
(viii) Interviews
1. Nicole Curato and Jonathan Corpus Ong, ‘Cultures of Disaster Revisited – An
Interview with Greg Bankoff’, Philippine Sociological Review, 15, 2015, pp.207-
216.
(ix) Response essays

1. Greg Bankoff, ‘A Tale of Two Wars: The Other Story of America’s Role in the
Philippines’, Foreign Affairs, 81, 6, 2002, pp.179-181.
(x) Book reviews

1. Greg Bankoff, Geoffrey C. Gunn, History Without Borders: The Making of an Asian
World Region, 1000-1800, Review in Asian Studies Review, 39, 3, 2015, pp.539-540.
2. Greg Bankoff, Pradyuma Karan and Shanmugam Subbiah (editors), The Indian
Ocean Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural Disaster. Review in Education
About Asia, 18, 2 2013.
3. Greg Bankoff, Christi-Anne Castro, Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation.

Review in American Historical Review, 117, 4, 2012, pp.1207-1208
4. Greg Bankoff, David Biggs, Quagmire: Nation-building and Nature in the Mekong
Delta. Review in H-Environment Roundtable Review, 2012,
http://h-net.org/~environ/roundtables/env-roundtable-2-5.pdf
5. Greg Bankoff, Karen Brown and Daniel Gilfoyle (editors), Healing the Herds:
Disease Livestock Economies, and the Globalisation of Veterinary Medicine. Review
in Medical History, 56, 1, 2012, pp.112-114.
6. Greg Bankoff, Julian Go, American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite
Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism.
Review in Journal of Social History, 45, 2011, pp.839-840.
7. Greg Bankoff, Stephen Mosley, The Environment in World History. Review in

Reviews in History, 2010, http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/993
8. Greg Bankoff, Warwick Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical

Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Review in Anthropological Forum,
18, 1, 2008, pp.79-80.
9. Greg Bankoff, Benedict Anderson, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-
colonial Imagination. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde,
163, 4, 2007, pp.559-561.
10. Greg Bankoff, Gregory Clancey, Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of
Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930. Review in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies,
9, 2, 2007, pp.202-204.
11. Greg Bankoff, Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the
Global Drug Trade. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde,
163, 1, 2007, pp.146-148.
12. Greg Bankoff, Ben Wallace, The Changing Village Environment in Southeast Asia:
Applied Anthropology and Environment Reclamation in the Northern Philippines.
Review in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 38, 1, 2007, pp.184-185.
13. Greg Bankoff, Michael Williams, Deforesting the Earth From Prehistory to Global
Crisis. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, 162, 2/3, 2006,
pp.350-352.
14. Greg Bankoff, Raul Pertierra, Science, Technology, and Everyday Culture in the
Philippines. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, 161, 4,
2005, pp.524-526.
15. Greg Bankoff, Katherine L. Wiegele, Investing In Miracles El Shaddai and the
Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. Review in Bijdragen Tot
De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, 161, 2/3, 2005, pp.351-353.
16. Greg Bankoff, Michael Cullinane Ilustrado Politics Filipino Elite Responses to
American Rule, 1898-1908. Review in Pilipinas, 43, 2004, pp.135-137.
17. Greg Bankoff, Eva-Lotta Hedman and John T. Sidel, Philippine Politics and Society
in the Twentieth Century. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En
Volkenkunde, 160, 4, 2004, pp.566-568.
18. Greg Bankoff, Florentino Rodao and Felice Noelle Rodriguez (eds.) The Philippine
Revolution of 1896: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times. Review in Pilipinas, 40,
2004, pp.75-76.
19. Greg Bankoff, Takeshi Kawanaka, Power in a Philippine City. Review in Bijdragen
Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, 160, 1, 2004, pp.128-130.
20. Greg Bankoff, Christiaan Heersink, Dependence on Green Gold; A Socio-economic

History of the Indonesian Coconut Island Selayar. Review in Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies, 34, 3, 2003, pp.568-570.
21. Greg Bankoff, Resil B. Mojares, The War Against the Americans; Resistance and
Collaboration in Cebu 1899-1906. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En
Volkenkunde, 159, 2, 2003, pp.407-410.
22. Greg Bankoff, Michael Salman, The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over
Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines. Review in Journal
of Southeast Asian Studies, 34, 1, 2003, pp.182-184.
23. Greg Bankoff, Clive J. Christie, Ideology and Revolution in Southeast Asia 1900-
1980. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, 158, 2, 2002,
pp.305-306.
24. Greg Bankoff, Alfred W. McCoy (ed.), Lives at the Margin; Biography of Filipinos
Obscure, Ordinary, and Heroic. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En
Volkenkunde, 158, 2, 2002, pp.306-308.
25. Greg Bankoff, Brian McAllister Linn, The Philippine War 1899-1902. Review in
American Historical Review, 107, April 2002, pp.530-531.
26. Greg Bankoff, Benito Legarda, After the Galleons. Foreign Trade, Economic Change
and Entrepreneurship in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines. Review in Journal of
the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 44, 4, 2001, pp.614-616.
27. Greg Bankoff, Vicente Rafael, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History.
Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En Volkenkunde, 157, 4, 2001, pp.903-
904.
28. Greg Bankoff, Laura Lee Junker, Raiding, Trading, and Feasting. The Political
Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Review in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies,
32, 3, 2001, pp.481-482.
29. Greg Bankoff, Filomeno Aguilar, Clash of Spirits; The History of Power and Sugar
Planter Hegemony on a Visayan Island. Review in American Historical Review,
October 2000, pp.1279-1280.
30. Greg Bankoff, Stephen Morris, Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia. Political Culture
and the Causes of War. Review in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, II, 1,
2000, pp.195-197.
31. Greg Bankoff, Vicente Rafael (ed.), Figures of Criminality in Indonesia, the
Philippines, and Colonial Vietnam. Review in Bijdragen Tot De Taal-, Land- En
Volkenkunde, 156, 1, 2000, pp.108-109.
32. Greg Bankoff, Reynaldo C. Ileto, Filipinos and their Revolution: Event, Discourse,
and Historiography. Review in Pilipinas, 33, 2000, pp.139-140.
33. Greg Bankoff, Peter Boomgaard, Freek Colombijn and David Henley (eds.), Paper
Landscapes. Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia. Review in
Pacific Affairs, 72, 3, Fall 1999, pp.473-474.
34. Greg Bankoff, David Martin Jones, Political Development in Pacific Asia. Review in
Australian Journal of Political Science, 34, 1, March 1999, pp.119-120.
35. Greg Bankoff, Michael Roche, Land and Water. Water & Soil Conservation and
Central Government in New Zealand 1941-1988. Review in New Zealand Journal
of History, 30, 1, 1996, pp.93-94.
36. Greg Bankoff, Sean Brawley, The White Peril. Foreign Relations and Asian
Immigration to Australasia and North America 1919-1978. Review in New Zealand
Journal of History, 29, 2, 1995, pp.243-244.
37. Greg Bankoff, Ruurdje Laarhoven, Triumph of Moro Diplomacy: the Maguindanao
Sultanate in the 17th Century. Review in Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 24, 1,
1993, pp.443-445.
38. Greg Bankoff, John N. Schumacher, The Making of a Nation, Essays on Nineteenth-
Century Filipino Nationalism. Review in Asian Studies Review, 16, 2, 1992, pp.340-
341.
(xi) Academic adviser
Patrick Heenan and Monique Lamontage (eds.) The Southeast Asian Handbook, London
and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
(xii) Guest editorship

Guest editor of special edition on Community-based Disaster Management in the
Philippines, Philippine Sociological Review, 2002 [published 2006]
9. Journal/institute editorial & advisory boards

Advisory Board, Climate and Culture Series, Brill, Leiden, Netherlands (2012-)
Advisory Board, Rachel Carson Centre, Munich, Germany (2009-2014)
Environment and History (Editorial Board 2012-)
Journal of Ethnology (Editorial Board 2015-)
(Philippine) Journal of History (International Advisory Board 2009-)
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (International Advisory Board 2007-2012)
Philippine Geography Journal (Advisory Board 2008-)
Sabangan (Editorial Consultant 2016-)
10. Research evaluation

Austrian Science Fund Oesterreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF)
Economic and Social Research Council (UK)
European Commission - Climate Change and Environmental Risks (Fp7-ENV 2011-
Topic 1.3.2-1
Leverhulme Trust
Marsden Fund (New Zealand)
National Science Foundation (USA)
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Nederlandse Organisatie voor
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)
Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Swiss National Science Foundation
11. Reviewer of article submitted to and books published by:

journals:
Agricultural History
American Historical Review
Anthropological Forum
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Climate and Development
Cold War History
Continuity and Change
Disaster Prevention and Management
Disasters
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
East Asian Science Technology and Society
Ecology and Science
Environment and History
Environmental Hazards
Environmental History
European Review of History
Global Environment
Global Environmental Change
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters
International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management
Jàmbá, Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
Journal of Alpine Research
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
Journal of East Asian Studies
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
Kasarinlan Philippine Journal of Third World Studies
Local Environment
Medical History
Natural Hazards
Natural Hazard Review
Nature and Culture
New Zealand Journal of History
Pacific Historical Review
Pilipinas
Philippine Geography Journal
Philippine Studies
Progress in Human Geography
Religion
Research in Economic Anthropology
Science as Culture
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Social and Cultural Geography
Society and Animals
The Cordillera Review
The Historian
Urban Studies
World Development
publishers:
Bloomsbury
Curzon
Earthscan
Routledge
University of Wisconsin Press
12. Principal Lectures since 1995

(*Airfares and/or accommodation paid by hosting institution)
2017
June 2107: Mobilising Global Voices, The AHRC International Development
Summit, The Knowledge Centre, British Library, London, UK, 7 June 2017, ‘Why are
voices of the past relevant?’ (invited speaker)*.
May 2017: The Second Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster
Studies (NEEDS 2), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 17-19 May
2017, ‘Remaking the World in Our Own Image: Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation
as Historical Discourses’ (invited keynote)*.
April 2017: Fire Risk Reduction in Informal Settlements. Workshop organised by

the Manchester Migration Lab and Operation, University of Manchester, Manchester,
UK 26 April 2017, ‘Understanding of Fire as a Social Construction’ (invited speaker)*.
2016
December 2016: Inaugural Symposium, Environmental Humanities: Doing
Interdisciplinarity with Depth, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK, 16 December 2016,
‘Living under the Volcano: Mount Mayon and Co-Volcanic Communities in the
Philippines’, (invited speaker)*.
November 2016: Newton Tech4Dev Network Launch: Crisis Work and Digital
Cultures Workshop, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK, 26 November 2016,
‘Living under the Volcano: Mount Mayon and Co-Volcanic Communities in the
Philippines’, (invited speaker)*.
November 2016: Disastrous Pasts: New Directions in Asian Disaster History

Conference, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 21
November 2016, ‘Living under the Volcano: Mount Mayon and Co-Volcanic
Communities in the Philippines’, (invited speaker)*.
November 2016: Disaster Justice in Anthropocene Asia and the Pacific Conference,
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 17 November
2016, ‘Blame, Responsibility and Agency: “Disaster Justice” and the State in the
Philippines’ (invited speaker)*.
September 2016: Cabot Institute, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol,
Bristol, UK, 29 September 2016, ‘Earthquakes and Communists in Kazakhstan: What
happened to the Second World?’ (invited keynote)*.
May 2016: Asia Research Centre Seminar, Murdoch University, Perth, Western
Australia, 31 May 2016, ‘What Happened to the Second World? The Challenges of
Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction in Kazakhstan’ (invited speaker)*.
May 2016: Building Consilience of the Natural and Social Sciences Workshop,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 25 May 2016, ‘Historical Concepts of
Disasters and Risk’ (invited keynote).
May 2016: Asia Research Institute Seminar, National University of Singapore,

Singapore, 24 May 2016, ‘What Happened to the Second World? The Challenges of
Earthquake Disaster Risk Reduction in Kazakhstan (invited speaker).
May 2016: Wider World History Network Seminar, Leeds University of Leeds, Leeds,
UK, 10 May 2016, ‘Deep Forestry: Shaping the Longue Durée of the forest in the
Philippines’ (invited speaker)*
March 2016: Resilient Structures and Infrastructure, British Council & Newton Al-
Farabi Partnership Conference, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 15 March
2016, ‘What Happened to the Second World? The Challenges of Earthquake Disaster
Risk Reduction in Kazakhstan (invited keynote).
2015
December 2015: Raphael Samuel History Lecture Series on the Marine
Environmental History of Britain, University of Greenwich, Greenwich, UK, 3
December 2015, ‘The English maritime Empire and the World Aeolian System’ (invited
speaker,)*
November 2015: The Short- and Long-term Responses of European Societies to

Environmental Shocks and Hazards in the Pre-industrial Period Workshop, Utrecht
University, Netherlands, 27 November, 2015, ‘Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation:
How History Shapes Meaning as well as Men’ (invited keynote).*
October 2015: Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction Seminar,

Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, PRC, 23 October 2015, ‘What happened to the
Second World? The Challenges of earthquake DRR in Kazakhstan’ (invited speaker).
October 2015: International Anthropology Workshop: Comparative Study of

Disasters and Upheavals: Perceptions and Responses, Southwest University for
Nationalities, Chengdu, Sichuan, PRC, 16-18 October 2015, ‘An Historical Approach to
Disaster Risk Reduction’ (invited speaker)*.
October 2015: Department of Anthropology Seminar, Southwest University for
Nationalities, Chengdu, Sichuan, PRC, 14 October 2015, ‘Design by Disasters: Seismic
Architecture and Cultural Adaptation to Earthquakes from Europe to Asia’ (invited
speaker)*.
April 2015: Fire Safety Engineering Seminar, BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering,
School of Engineering, King’s Buildings, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 27
April 2015, ‘Urban Fire Regimes: Past and Present’ (invited speaker)*
April 2015: Earthquakes without Frontiers, Interim Partnership Workshop,

Building Resilience to Earthquakes along the Alpine-Himalayan Belt, National
Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, 10-13 April 2015,
‘Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction & Earthquakes’.
March 2015: Evolutions and Revolutions in Water Management, Huygens Institute

for the History of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, The
Netherlands, 19-20 March 2015, ‘Malaria, Water Management and the Disappearance of
the English Lowlands’ (invited speaker)*
2014
November 2014: Asia Research Centre Seminar, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia,
25 November, ‘Whethering the Storm: The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and
Yolanda’.
November 2014: Geography Department Seminar Series, University of Western

Australia, Perth, Australia, 19 November, ‘Making Parks out of Making Wars:
Transnational Nature Conservation and Conflict Resolution’.
November 2014: History Department Seminar Series, University of Western Australia,

Perth, Australia, 12 November, ‘Setting Course for Empire: The Meteorological and
Oceanographic Contours of European Maritime Expansion in the Days of Sail’.
November 2014: Ove Arup Foundation Lecture and Workshop: From Constraint to
Innovation, School of Advanced Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia, 5-7 November ‘Urban Fire Regimes’ (invited speaker)*
October 2014: Disasters in History: The Philippines in Comparative Perspective An

International Conference-Workshop, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila,
Philippines, 24–25 October ‘Exploring the Limits of the Filipino Past: Towards a More
Trans-environmental History of the Philippines’ (invited keynote speaker)*
October 2014: Philippine Sociological Society Conference: Crises Resiliency, and

Community: Sociology in the Age of Disasters, Graduate School AVR, Mindanao State
University, MSU- CETD Campus, General Santos City, Philippines, 17- 18 October,
‘Whethering the Storm: The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda’ (invited
keynote speaker)*
September 2014: Human-Environment Interaction in Indo-Pacific History: The
Inter-relationship between Geophysical and Meteorological Systems and Historical
Events, c.500BCE to the present, ARC Linkage related-workshop, Murdoch
University, Perth, Australia, 29 September, ‘On Tipping Points and Clustering:
Understanding Disasters in the Indo-Pacific’.
June 2014: SIEAS TRaNS Conference: Water in Southeast Asia: Navigating

Contradictions, Sogang University, South Korea, 26-27 June ‘Wind, Water and Risk:
Shaping a Trans-environmental History of the Western North Pacific’ (invited speaker)*
2013
October 2013: Maritime Historical Studies Centre Lecture Series, Blaydes House,
University of Hull, Hull, UK 8 October ‘Setting Course for Empire: The Meteorological
Contours of European Maritime Expansion in the Days of Sail’
July 2013: 7th EuroSEAS Conference, School of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal 2-5 July: ‘Coping with the Aftermath of Disaster:
Medicine, Mental Health and Religion in Southeast Asia’; and ‘Cultures of Disaster:
Comparing Social Resilience in the Philippines to the World’.
June 2013: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe: (Post) Colonial Representations of

South East Asian and Caribbean Disasters, 1800 – 2012, Leiden University,
Netherlands, 4– 5 June: ‘Storm over San Isidro: “Civic Community” and Disaster Risk
Reduction in Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (invited key note)*
March 2013: Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, 6 March, University of Nottingham,

Nottingham, UK: ‘Sick to Death: Disasters and Emergency Medical Services in
Southeast Asia’ (invited speaker)*
February 2013: The Centre for Environmental Change and Human Resilience, 7
February, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK: The “English Lowlands” and the North
Sea Basin System: A History of Shared Risk’ (invited speaker)*
2012
November 2012: Dimensions of the Indian Ocean World Past, 12-14 November,
Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Western Australia: ‘Setting Course for
Empire: The Meteorological Contours of European Maritime Expansion in the Days of
Sail’ (invited speaker)*
September 2012: 27th ASEASUK Conference, 8-9 September, Durham University, UK:
‘Engineering Disasters: “Risk Architecture” and the Built-Environment in Europe and
Asia‘
May 2012: Verflechtungen: Naturkatastrophen und Technikversagen in Modernen
Gesellschaften, 18-19 May, Deutschen Museum, München, Germany: ‘No Such Things
as "Natural" and "Technical" Disasters: Why We Had to Invent Them’ (invited keynote
speaker)*
April 2012: 21st Annual Philippine Biodiversity Symposium of the Wildlife

Conservation Society of the Philippines, 17-20 April, De La Salle University-
Dasmariñas & Philippine National Museum, Manila, The Philippines: ‘Deep Forestry:
Shapers of the Philippine Forests’ (keynote speech, Skype presentation)
March 2012: Imaging Disasters Conference, 1-3 March, Internationales

Wissenschaftsforum, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany: ‘The Aesthetics of
Danger: Seismic Architecture through the Ages’ (invited speaker)*
January 2012: Séminaire «Catastrophes, Risques et Sciences Sociales», 20 January,

Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, France: ‘Disaster Subcultures,
Disaster Cultures and Risk Societies: Studies in Europe and Asia’ (invited speaker)*
January 2012: Organising Disaster Workshop, 13-14 January, Goldsmiths College,

London, UK: Commentator (invited speaker)*
2011
November 2011: 2nd International Workshop on Environmental History:
Environmental Disasters and Sustainability, 15-19 November, Florianopolis, Brazil:
‘The “English Lowlands” and the North Sea Basin System: A History of Shared Risk’
(invited speaker, Skype presentation)
November 2011: Hull & East Riding Branch of the Historical Society, 10 November,
Hull. UK: ‘The “English Lowlands” and the North Sea Basin System: A History of
Shared Risk’
October 2011: Continuity in Energy Regimes, A Peter Wall Institute for Advanced
Studies and Technical University of Munich, Institute for Advanced Study
Colloquium, 27-29 October, Technical University of Munich. Munich (invited
commentator/discussant)*
October 2011: Science and Nature in Europe and Asia: Scientific Traditions and
New Technologies, 20-21st October, Leiden University, Netherlands: ‘Natural Hazards’
(invited commentator/discussant)*
September 2011: 26th ASEASUK Conference, 9-11 September, Magdalene College,

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK: ‘Deep Forestry: Shapers of the Philippine
Forests’
August 2011: Southeast Asia: The Longue Durée, 24-26 August, Leiden University,
Leiden, Netherlands: ‘Deep Forestry: Shapers of the Philippine Forests’ (invited
speaker)*
July 2011: Cultures and Disasters, 5-6 July, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung,
Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany: ‘Disasters and Cultures: Connecting Past
Lessons to Present Practices’ (conference organiser, co-convenor and invited speaker)*
May 2011: Global Resource Conflicts. Political Economy and Transnational

Governance in the 20th Century, 26-28 May, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
‘Making Parks out of Making Wars: Transnational Nature Conservation and Conflict
Resolution’ (invited speaker)*
February 2011: Comparative History of Asia Seminar, 24 February, Senate House,

University of London, UK ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic Morphology of Pre-
Twentieth Century Manila’ (invited speaker)*
January 2011: Communicating Disasters, 13-15 January, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre

Forschung, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany ‘Disasters: A Question of History?’
(invited keynote speaker)*
2010
November 2010: Royal Meteorological Society North East Centre, 12 November,
University of Durham, Durham, UK ‘The “English Lowlands” and the North Sea Basin
System: A History of Shared Risk’ (invited speaker).*
September 2010: Sub-contracting Risk, ESRC-project Workshop, 16 September,

University of Hull, Hull, UK (together with Graham Haughton and Tom Coulthard) ‘Sub-
Contracting Risk: Neoliberal Policy Agendas and the Changing Perceptions and Practices
of Flood Risk Management’ (co-organiser of workshop and joint speaker).
September 2010: Closing the Gaps: MICRODIS European Symposium on Integrated

Strategies for Extreme Events, 9-10 September, Northumbria University, Newcastle,
UK, ‘Enviro-culturally Derived Approach to Trans-disciplinary Studies in DRR’ (invited
speaker).*
August 2010: 21st International Congress of the International Sciences, Amsterdam,

Netherlands, 22-28 August, ‘Flood Governance in the “English Lowlands”: The Case of
Humberside’.
July 2010: Green Cultures: Environmental Knowledge, Climate and Catastrophe,

Rachel Carson Centre, Munich, Germany, 9-10 July (invited discussant)*.
July 2010: 79th Anglo-American Conference, Institute of Historical Research on

Environments, Senate House, London, UK, 2-3 July, ‘Creating Civic Community:
Municipal Governance and Local Responses to Flood in the Nineteenth Century
Philippines’.
June 2010: NUWCReN Symposium on Community Vulnerability and Resilience,

Hof van Wageninegen, University of Wageninegen, Netherlands, 23 June, ‘Rethinking
Hazards: Social Resilience from an Historical Perspective’ (keynote invited speaker)*.
June 2010: Eclipse of Empires: Colonial Resistance, Metropolitan Decline, and

Imperial Crises in the XIX and XX Centuries, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona,
Spain, 2-4 June, ‘The “Three Rs” and the Making of a New World Order: Reparation,
Reconstruction, Relief and U.S. Policy, 1945-1952’ (invited speaker)*.
March 2010: Getting Real About Climate Change: The Great Debate, Newcastle, UK,
20 March, ‘Societal Paralysis, Path-dependence and Historical Lock-in: Why We Know
What to Do but Still Don’t Do It!’ (invited speaker)*.
March 2010: American Society for Environmental History Conference, Portland State
University, Portland, USA, 10-14 March, ‘Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic
Morphology of 19th Century Manila’ (speaker: paper delivered in absentia by Christof
Mauch).
March 2010: Industrielle Krisenkommunikation Workshop, University of Konstanz,

Konstanz, Germany, 4-5 March, ‘Path-Dependence, Historical Lock-in and “Built-in”
Accident?’ (invited speaker)*.
January 2010: Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI), Essen, Germany, 19 January,

‘Societal Paralysis, Path-dependence and Historical Lock-in: Why We Know What to Do
but Still Don’t Do It!’ (invited speaker)*.
January 2010: IAS Water and Risk Workshop, Durham, UK, 12-14 January, ‘No Risk
Please: We’re British’ (invited speaker)*.
2009
December 2009: Fire in Human Evolution, Human History, and Human Society,
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 15 – 18 December, ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic Morphology of
Pre-twentieth Century Manila’ (invited speaker)*.
December 2009: Netherlands Institute For War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam,

Netherlands, 14 December, ‘Valuing the Environment: The Philippines War Damage
Commission 1946-1950’ (invited speaker)*.
November 2009: Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards Conference: Putting
Research into Practice, Hazard Research Centre, University College London, UK, 4-6
November, ‘No Risk Please: We’re British’ (Keynote invited speaker)*
August 2009: Local Livelihoods and Global Challenges: Understanding Human
Interaction with the Environment, World Congress for Environmental History,
Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 August, ‘Valuing the Environment: The Philippines War
Damage Commission 1946-1951’ (speaker and panel convenor: paper delivered in
absentia by Christof Mauch).
April 2009: The Nation-State and the Transnational Environment, Institute for
Historical Research, University of Texas at Austin, USA, 16-18 April, 'Making Parks
Out of Making War: Transnational Nature Conservation and the Legacy of Conflict’
(invited speaker).*
March 2009: Inaugural Lecture, University of Hull, United Kingdom, 16 March, ‘A

Tale of Two Cities: the Pyromorphology of Nineteenth Century Manila’ (speaker).
February 2009: Earthquake People Interaction Centre Seminar Series, Department

of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London,
United Kingdom, 24 February, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a
Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
January 2009: Cultures of Disaster: Shifting Asymmetries between Societies,

Cultures, and Nature from a Comparative Historical and Transcultural Perspective,
University of Heidelberg, Germany, “Cultures of Disaster: Living with Risk”, 15-17
January, (invited speaker)*.
January 2009: Centre of South East Asian Studies, SOAS, London, United Kingdom,
13 January, ‘Dangers to Going it Alone: Social Capital and the Origins of Community
Resilience in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
January 2009: History and Sustainability: Environmental History and Education for
Sustainable Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, 10
January, ‘Disasters: No Place for the Historian?’ (invited speaker).*
2008
December 2008: The Social Science-Science Interface in Considering Natural
Hazards: A Workshop to Explore Common Ground, Institute of Hazard and Risk
Research (IHRR), University of Durham, United Kingdom, 18-19 December, ‘No Place
for the Historian?’ (invited speaker).*
November 2009: Northeast Environmental History Seminar Series, University of

Newcastle, United Kingdom, 20 November, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping:
Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
October 2008: Timescapes of Islands in the Asia-Pacific region: Perspectives from

Environmental History and the Time Horizons of Management, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan, 27-28 October, ‘Creating New Imperial Landscapes: Gifford
Pinchot, William Safford, and Early Environmental Management in the American
Pacific: 1899-1902’ (invited speaker).*
October 2008: Climate Matters, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 9-10 October, ‘Governing in
Uncertain Times: Vulnerability and Resilience in an Age of Change’ (invited speaker).*
September 2008: Common Ground/Terrains Communs, Centre National de la

Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, 11-13 September, ‘Fire and Quake in the
Construction of Old Manila’ (speaker).
Philippine UP-Baguio Centennial speaking tour (invited speaker)*:

August 2008: Open Forum, UP College of Social Work and Community Development
(CSWCD) and the UNICEF Education Cluster, CSWCD, University of the Philippines-
Diliman, 8 August, ‘Opportunities and Challenges in Disaster Studies and Research in
Universities and Colleges’.
August 2008: Centennial Lecture Series, University of the Philippines-Baguio, Baguio

City, Philippines, 5 August, ‘Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflicts on the
Forests of the Philippines, 1600-2000’.
July 2008: Centennial Lecture Series, University of the Philippines-Baguio, Baguio

City, Philippines, 29 July, ‘The Nature of Science and the Science of Nature in the
Nineteenth Century Philippines’.
July 2008, 8th International Conference on Philippine Studies, PSSC, Quezon City,
Philippines, 23-25 July, ‘First Impressions: Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the
Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902’ (speaker).
July 2008: Centennial Lecture Series, University of the Philippines-Baguio, Baguio

City, Philippines, 17 July, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a
Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines’.
July 2008: Making Empire Visible in the Metropole: Comparative Imperial

Transformations in America, Australia, England & France, Darlington Centre,
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 3-4 July, ‘First Impressions: Diarists, Scientists,
Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-
1902’ (invited speaker).*
June 2008: 24th ASEASUK Conference, Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool,
UK, 20-22 June, ‘Manila’s Burning: Architecture, Fire and Seismicity in a Late Colonial
Capital’ (speaker).
May 2008: Flammable Cities: Fire, Urban Environment and Culture in History, German
Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. USA, 15-17 May, ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The
Pyromorphology of Manila in the Nineteenth Century’ (co-convenor, invited speaker).*
April 2008: Communicating Disaster Experiences: Religion, History, and the Media,
SOAS, University of London, UK, 4-5 April, ‘Parallel Histories: Humanity and Nature at
War in the Philippines, 1896-1907’ (invited speaker).*
2007
November 2007: Department of Geography, University of Hull, United Kingdom, 21
November, ‘Dangers of Going It Alone: Social Capital and the Origins of Community
Resilience in the Philippines’.
October 2007: Institute of Hazard and Risk Research (IHRR), University of Durham,
United Kingdom, 30 October, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a
Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
September 2007: The Politics of Disasters. Historisches Institut, Universitat Bern, Bern,
Switzerland, 21-23 September, ‘Preparing Communities to Deal with Misfortune:
Leadership, Local Politics and Community Resources in the Philippines’ (invited
speaker)*,
September 2007: Uncertain Environments: Natural Hazards, Risk, and Insurance in

Historical Perspective. German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. USA, 13-15
September, ‘Living with Uncertainty, Coping with Risk: Social Capital and the Origins of
Community Resilience in the Philippines’ (invited speaker)*.
March 2007: Environmental History and the Cold War. German Historical Institute,
Washington, D.C. USA, 22-25 March, ‘A Curtain of Silence: The Fate of Asia’s Fauna in
the Cold War’ (invited speaker)*.
January 2007: Trans-Tasman Forest History, Seventh Conference of the Australian

Forest History Society, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 29
January-2 February, ‘Where the Colony Serves as Model: Gifford Pinchot, the American
Philippines and the U.S. Forestry Service’ (speaker).
2006
November 2006: Southern Perspectives on Development: Dialogue or Division?
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 30 November-2 December, ‘The
Vulnerability of Animals to Natural Hazards & Sustainable Development’ (speaker).
November 2006: Transitions & Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State: The Search
for New Synthesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA, 9-11 November,
‘Colonialism and Conservation: Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of Tropical Forestry in the
Philippines’ (invited speaker)*.
Hawaii speaking tour (invited speaker)*:
October 2006: Philippine Studies/Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of
Hawaii, Mañoa, USA, 27 October, ‘Winds of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours
of Spain’s Imperium in the Pacific, 1521-1898.
October 2006: Urban Planning/Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of

Hawaii, Mañoa, USA, 26 October, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a
Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines’.
October 2006: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Disaster Management and

Humanitarian Assistance simulcast through Peacesat to United Nations University
in Tokyo, Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, National University of Samoa in
Apia, and several other locations, University of Hawaii, Mañoa, USA, 25 October,
‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the
Philippines’.
October 2006: Pacific Disaster Center on Maui, Hawaii, USA, 25 October, ‘The
Dangers to Going it Alone: Social Capital and the Origins of Community Resilience in
the Philippines’.
October 2006: Geography Department, University of Hawaii, Mañoa, USA, 24

October, ‘Not Child’s Play: Taking Another Look at Vulnerability in the Light of the
Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina’.
September 2006: History Department, Manchester University, Manchester, United

Kingdom, 18 September, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent
Life Experience in the Philippines’ (speaker).
September 2006: Environmental History Centre, Stirling University, Stirling, United

Kingdom, 12 September, ‘The Nature of Science and the Science of Nature in the
Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (invited speaker)*.
September 2006: Wyke Sixth Form College, Kingston-upon-Hull, United Kingdom, 11

September, ‘Not Child’s Play: Taking Another Look at Vulnerability in the Light of the
Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina’ (speaker).
September 2006: Naturkatastrophen und vormoderne Gesellschaften/Natural

Disasters and Pre-modern Societies, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, 7-9
September, Dangers to Going it Alone: Social Capital and the Origins of Community
Resilience in the Philippines’ (invited speaker)*.
September 2006: Environment and Nature in Asia: Special Symposium, University of

Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2 September 2006, ‘The Nature of Science and the
Science of Nature in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (invited speaker)*
May 2006: Marine Education and Recreation Centre Winter Lecture Series, Long
Bay, Auckland, New Zealand, 26 May, ‘Winds of Colonisation: Wind Systems, Currents
& Spain’s Empire in the Pacific’ (speaker).
May 2006: Colonialism, Post-colonialism, and the Environment. German Historical

Institute, Washington, D.C. USA, 4-7 May, ‘The Nature of Science and the Science of
Nature in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (invited speaker)*.
April 2006: The Future of Disasters in a Globalizing World, Third Annual MaGrann
Research Conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 21-22 April, ‘Fair
Game? The Vulnerability of Animals to Natural Hazards in a Globalized World’ (invited
speaker)*
February 2006: Southeast Asia: Past, Present and Future. International Conference in
Honour of the 75th Birthday of Professor Nicholas Tarling, New Zealand Asia Institute,
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 1-3 February, ‘Today’s “Big-men”:
Leadership and Negotiating Grassroots Community Resources in the Philippines’
(speaker).
2005
December 2005: Memorial Conference on the 2004 Giant Earthquake and Tsunami in
the Indian Ocean, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan,
16-17 December, ‘Not Child’s Play: Taking Another Look at Vulnerability in the Light
of the Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina’ (invited speaker)*.
December 2005: Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Georgetown University, 8 December,
‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the
Philippines’ (invited speaker).
November 2005: History Department, Georgetown University, 29 November, ‘Winds

of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spanish Imperium in the Pacific, 1521-
1898’ (invited speaker).
November 2005: Asian Studies Department, University of British Colombia, 17

November, ‘People Are Not the Only Victims: Disasters, Animals and Social Theory’
(invited speaker).
November 2005: Regenerations: New Leaders, New Visions in Southeast Asia

Conference, Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Yale University, USA, 11-12
November, ‘Modern “Big Men”: Leadership and Negotiating Community Resources at
the Grassroots’ (invited speaker)*.
August 2005: Conference on Natural Disaster in Asian History and Memory,

National University of Singapore, Singapore, 26-28 August, ‘Disaster Management in the
Nineteenth Century Philippines: Local Government and the Community during the Flood
of 1887 in Nueva Ecija’ (invited speaker)*.
August 2005: Fourth International Convention of Asia Scholars, Shanghai Exhibition
Center, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, 20-24 August, ‘The Perfect Storm Flood
Disaster Management in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (speaker).
July 2005: Broadening the British World, British World Conference IV, Auckland,
New Zealand, 13-16 July, ‘From Cawnpore to Ground Zero: The Indian Mutiny and 9/11
as Turning Points of Empire?’ (speaker).
July 2005: Auckland History Teachers Association Conference, Auckland, New

Zealand, 11-12 July, ‘Vietnam: Many Histories’ (invited speaker).
July 2005: Humankind and Nature in History: b. ‘Natural Disasters and How They Have
Been Dealt With’ 20th International Congress for the Historical Sciences (CISH)
Sydney, Australia, 3-9 July, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a
Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines’ (plenary panel speaker).
May 2005: Animals in History, Conference at the German Historical Institute,

Literaturhaus, Köln, Germany, May 18 – 21, ‘Bodies on the Beach: Domesticated
Animals and Disasters in the Spanish Philippines, 1800-1898’ (invited speaker).*
February 2005: History and Sustainability, 3rd International Conference, European

Society for Environmental History, Florence, Italy, 16-19 February, ‘Time is of the
Essence: Disasters, Vulnerability and History’ (speaker and panel organiser).
January 2005: Geography Department, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, 26

January, ‘Winds of Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spanish Imperium in
the Pacific, 1521-1898’ (public lecture).
2004
December 2004: Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon
City, Philippines, 1 December, ‘From Wood to Lumber: Changing Attitudes to the
Forests of the Philippines 1565-1898’ (public lecture).
December 2004: Geography Department, Palma Hall, University of the Philippines,

Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines, 1 December, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of
Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines’ (public lecture).
September 2004: Spain's Legacy in the Pacific during the Age of Sail, Maritime
Museum of San Diego Library, San Diego, USA, 24-26 September, ‘Winds of
Colonisation: The Meteorological Contours of Spanish Imperium in the Pacific, 1521-
1898’ (invited plenary speaker).*
September 2004: 4th EUOSEAS Conference, University of Paris I Panthéon –

Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1-4 September, ‘The Origins of Resilience: Community
Association and Hazard in the Philippines, 1600-2000 (speaker).
July 2004: Recovery Symposium, Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency
Management, Napier, New Zealand, 12-13 July, ‘Differing Perceptions of Disaster
Preparedness, Management and Recovery: A Case Study from the Philippines’, (invited
speaker).*
June 2004: 7th International Conference on Philippine Studies, Leiden, Netherlands,

16-19 June, ‘A Month in the Life of José Salud, Assistant Forester for Capiz, Philippines,
July 1882’ and ‘“Seeing” is Believing: Differing Perceptions of Disaster Preparedness
and Management in the Philippines’ (Conference Organising Committee & speaker).
June 2004: Governance of Complexity in Disaster Preparedness in the Context of

Climate Change, International Work-Conference, Wageningen University and
Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands, 14-15 June, ‘“Seeing” is Believing:
Differing Perceptions of Disaster Preparedness and Management in the Philippines’
(speaker).
May 2004: The Wealth of Nature: How Natural Resources have Shaped Asian History,
1600-2000, Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, Wassenaar, Netherlands, 24-25
May, ‘Changing Perceptions of a Resource Frontier; Spanish and American Views of
Philippine Tropical Forests in the 19 th and 20th centuries’ (speaker & workshop co-
organiser).
May 2004: War and the Environment: Context and Consequences of Military Destruction
in the Modern Age, Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.,
USA, 7-8 May, ‘Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflicts on the Forests of the
Philippines, 1600-2000’ (invited speaker).*
February 2004: Natural Disasters and Cultural Strategies: Responses to Catastrophe in

Global Perspective, Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.,
USA, 19-22 February, ‘Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent
Life Experience in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
2003
December 2003: History Department Seminar, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland,
17 December, ‘“Regions of Risk”: Western Discourses on Terrorism and the Significance
of Islam’ (invited speaker).*
December 2003: Decolonizing Societies. The Reorientation of Asian and African

Livelihoods under Changing Regimes, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11-13 December, ‘Community and the Provision of Social
Services: A Comparison of Colonial and National Eras in the Rural Philippines’ (invited
speaker).*
October 2003: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Research Fellow Seminar,
NIAS, Wassenaar, Netherlands, 23 October, ‘Cultures of Disaster; Society and Natural
Hazard in the Philippines’ (speaker).
August 2003: International Conference on Asian Studies 3, NUS, Singapore, 19-22

August, ‘The Origins of Community Association and Natural Hazard in the Philippines
1600-2000’ (invited speaker).*
June 2003: European Telecommunications Resilience & Recovery Association

Conference 1, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 11-13 June, ‘Vulnerability:
Another Look at the Three Pigs’ (invited speaker).*
May 2003: Representing the Unimaginable: Narratives of Disaster, Westfälische

Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, 23-25 May, ‘“Regions of Risk”: Western
Discourses on Terrorism and the Significance of Islam’ (speaker).
April 2003: From Miracle to Crisis and Beyond: Governance, Institutions and Anti-
Corruption in Asia, New Zealand Asia Institute, Auckland, New Zealand, 28-30 April,
‘Profiting From Disasters: Corruption, Hazard and Society in the Philippines’ (invited
speaker).*
April 2003: CERES Advanced Research Seminar Series, Wageningen University,

Wageningen, Netherlands, 10 April, ‘Cultures of Disaster and Inherent Vulnerability’
(sole speaker).
February 2003: Global Development, Population and Rural Livelihoods Seminar

Series, Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, 17 February,
‘Competition, Conflict and Resource Use: ENSO and Red Tide in the Philippines (sole
speaker).
2002
December 2002: International Workshop Mega-urbanization in Asia and Europe:
Directors of Urban Change in a Comparative Perspective, Leiden, Netherlands, 12-14
December, ‘A Question of Vulnerability and Capacity: The Risk of Living with Flood in
Metro Manila’ (speaker).
December 2002: Corruption, Amsterdamse School voor Sociaalwetenschappelijk

Onderzoek Jubilee Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-13 December, ‘Profiting
From Disasters: Corruption and Natural Hazards in the Philippines’ (speaker).
November 2002: Asian Research Institute Seminar Forum, National University of

Singapore, Singapore, 14 November, ‘‘“Regions of Risk”: Western Discourse and the
Non-western World’ (speaker).
November 2002: Philippine Disaster Management Forum, International Social
Services Philippine Office, Quezon City, Philippines, 13 November, ‘Discourses of Risk:
Disasters in the Philippines and the Third World’ (speaker).
October 2002: Forum Series on Philippine History/Historiography, UP Village,

Quezon City, Philippines, 19 October, ‘Labour in a Time of Revolution: Poblete’s
Obreros and the Road to Baguio, 1899-1908’ (sole speaker).
August 2002: Crisis in Indonesia Conference and Workshop, KNAW Project, Padang
and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 22-25 August and 27-28 August, ‘Perspectives on
Vulnerability and Crisis: the Fable of the Three Pigs’ (discussant and speaker).
August 2002: 11th Annual International Conference of the World History

Association, Seoul, South Korea, 15-18 August, ‘“Regions of Risk”: Western Discourse
and the Non-western World’ (speaker).
July 2002: KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), De Bilt, Netherlands,

7 July, ‘ENSO and the Politics of Water’ (guest speaker)
June 2002: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster
Preparedness, The Hague, Netherlands, 26-28 June, ‘Social Vulnerability in the
Philippines: The Case of Mindanao 1997-98’ (speaker).
March 2002: Symposium on Indonesia: Openness, Religious Harmony and

Globalisation, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 March, ‘“Regions of Risk”: Terrorism, Islam
and Western Discourse’ (speaker).
2001
September 2001: 4th European Philippine Studies Conference, Alcala, Spain, 10-12
September, ‘A Risky Business: The Cost of Natural Hazards in the Philippines’
(organising committee member, panel convenor and conference speaker).
September 2001: 3rd EUROSEAS Conference, SOAS, London, UK, 6-8 September,
‘Political Violence in Southeast Asia’ (Discussant and Panel Co-Convenor) and ‘From
The Horse’s Mouth: A Social Reconstruction of the Life and Times of the Horse in 19 th
Century Philippines’ (conference speaker).
June 2001: Vulnerability in Disaster Theory and Practice, International Work-

Conference, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands,
28-30 June, ‘Rendering the World Unsafe: “Vulnerability” as Western Discourse’
(speaker and organising committee member).
June 2001: Water as Life Giving and a Deadly Force, Workshop in Celebration of the
150th Anniversary of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde,
Leiden, Netherlands, 14-16 June, ‘Storms of History: Tsunami, Cyclone, Flood and Tidal
Wave in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
February 2001: Public Forum, Center For Integrated Development Studies, Bahay ng
Alumni, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines, 8 February 2001, ‘A Risky
Business: The Cost of Natural Hazards in the Philippines’ (sole speaker).
February 2001: Asia Society Philippines Foundation, Oakwood Premier, Ayala Center,
Makati City, Philippines, 7 February 2001, ‘A Risky Business: The Cost of Natural
Hazards in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).
February 2001: Euro Lecture Series, The European Documentation & Research
Centre, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, 7 February 2001, ‘A Question of
Breeding: Size, Sex and Science in the Late Spanish Philippines’ (invited speaker).
February 2001: Public Lecture, Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, 6

February 2001, ‘A Question of Breeding: Size, Sex and Science in the Late Spanish
Philippines’ (sole speaker).
January 2001: Outside the Circle of Power in 19 th Century Philippines, Symposium,

Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines, 19-20 January, ‘Devils,
Familiars and Spaniards, The Trials and Tribulations of a Hilot in Early 19 th Century
Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
2000
November 2000: Seminar, SOAS, London, United Kingdom, 2 November 2000:
‘Selective Memory and Collective Forgetting: Historiography and the Philippine
Centennial of 1898’ (sole speaker).
October 2000: New Research Directions, Philippine Studies Workshop, International

Institute for Asian Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 20 October 2000, ‘Philippine
Disasters in their Socio-Historical Context’ (conference speaker).
October 2000: Las Sociedades de Filipinas y el Sudeste de Asia. Màs Allà de la Crisis,
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid, Spain, 5-7 October,
‘History and Natural Hazard in the Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
July 2000: Turns of the Centuries: The Philippines in 1900 and 2000, 6th International
Philippine Studies Conference, Quezon City, Philippines, 10-14 July 2000, ‘Expo
Pilipino and the Recolonisation of the Past’ (conference speaker).
July 2000: Whose Millennium?, Asian Studies Association of Australia, University of

Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 3-5 July 2000, ‘Asia’s Disastrous Future: Natural
Hazard and Societies in the 21 st Century’ and ‘Selective Memory and Collective
Forgetting: Historiography and the Philippine Centennial of 1898’ (conference speaker).
February 2000: Seminar, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 17 February 2000:
‘Devils, Familiars and Spaniards: Spheres of Power and the Supernatural in the World of
Seberina Candelaria and Her Village in Early 19th Century Philippines (sole speaker).
February 2000: Public Lecture, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, 9

February 2000: ‘Hazard and Society in the Philippines’ (sole speaker).
February 2000: Hazards of the Mind, Hazards of Nature, Colloquium held at Ateneo de
Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines, 3 February 2000, ‘Devils, Familiars and
Spaniards: Spheres of Power and the Supernatural in the World of Seberina Candelaria
and Her Village in Early 19 th Century Philippines’ and ‘The Politics of Natural Disasters
in the Philippines 1985-1995’ (sole speaker).
January 2000: Asia in the Next Millennium: Prospects for Peace and Development,
University of the Philippines and the Hotung Institute of International Studies
(Hongkong), Shangri-la Plaza Hotel, Makati, Metro Manila, 7-8 January 2000, ‘Asia’s
Hazardous Future: Natural Disasters and Societies in the 21st Century’ (invited speaker).*
1999
June 1999: Southeast Asia into the 21st Century: Critical Transitions, Continuity and
Change, Fourth Asean Inter-University Seminar on Social Development, Prince of
Songkla University, Pattani, Thailand, 16-18 June, 1999, ‘Gracias A Dios: The Social
Construction of the Forces of Nature in the Philippines’ (conference speaker).
February 1999: New Research Directions, Philippine Studies Workshop, International

Institute for Asian Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12 February 1999, ‘Current
Research on the History of Natural Disasters in the Philippines’ (conference speaker).
January 1999: Talking About the Weather, Public Symposium on Weather and Society,
Hotel de Wereld, Wageningen, Netherlands, 10 February 1999, ‘Can’t Believe The
Weatherman: Culture and Hazard in the Philippines’ (plenary speaker).
1998
September 1998: 1898 From Far And Near; The Genesis of the Balance of Power in the
Asia-Pacific Region, Embassy of Spain and the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Culture, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 22 September 1998,
‘Ideology and the Past: the Philippine Centennial of 1898’ (conference speaker).
July 1998: A Century of the Philippine State: the State of the Philippines, Philippine
Studies Association of Australia, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland,
Australia, 9-11 July 1998, ‘A History of Poverty: the Politics of Natural Disasters in the
Contemporary Philippines, 1985-1995’ (conference speaker).
February 1998: Linkages in Development Issues of Governance, Aotearoa New Zealand
International Development Studies Network Inaugural Conference, University of
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 20-21 February 1998, ‘Profiting From Disasters in
the Contemporary Philippines’ (conference speaker).
1997
July 1997: 3rd Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies in Australasia
Conference, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, July 1997, ‘Horses for
Courses: Zootechny and Colonial Attitudes Towards the Tropical Environment in the
Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (conference speaker).
April 1997: Public Lecture, Royal Institute of Linguistics & Anthropology (EDEN
Project), University of Leiden, Netherlands, April 1997, ‘Societies in Conflict: Algae
and Humanity in the Philippines’ (sole speaker).
April 1997: 2nd Australian/New Zealand-Philippines Studies Workshop, Asian

Center, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, April 1997, ‘New
Zealand and the Philippines: Contrasts & Comparisons’ (plenary speaker).
April 1997: 3rd Philippine Studies Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, April 1997,
‘Horses for Courses: Zootechny and Colonial Attitudes Towards the Tropical
Environment in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (conference speaker).
March 1997: Public Lecture, University of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Darussalem, March 1997 ‘Horses for Courses: Zootechny and Colonial Attitudes
Towards the Tropical Environment in the Nineteenth Century Philippines’ (sole speaker).
1996
August 1996: The Philippine Revolution and Beyond, National Centennial Commission,
Manila Hotel, Manila, Philippines, 21-23 August 1996, ‘In Search of the Masses: Non-
Confrontational Forms of Dissent in Late 19th Century Philippines’ (invited speaker).*
June 1996, Man and Environment in Indonesia 1500-1950, Royal Institute of

Linguistics & Anthropology (EDEN Project), Leiden, Netherlands, 27-29 June 1996,
‘Europe's Expanding Resource Frontier: Colonialism and Environment in Southeast Asia’
(invited speaker).*
January 1996: 1st Australian/New Zealand-Philippines Studies Workshop, Asian

Center, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, 29-31 January 1996,
‘Australia and the Asia Pacific’ (conference speaker).
1995
July 1995: 11th NZASIA Conference, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand,
July 1995, ‘Societies in Conflict: Algae and Humanity in the Philippines’ (conference
speaker).
February 1995, Public Lecture, Asian Studies Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, February 1995, ‘Coming to Terms with Nature: State and Environment in
Maritime Southeast Asia’ (sole speaker).

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Curriculum Vitae

Nationality: Australian & British

Correspondence Address: Department of History

Telephone: Work: 0044-(0)1482-465693

July 1983 - July 1984 Diploma in Education, Murdoch University, Western

1977 - 1981 B.A. Honours Latin American Studies, Portsmouth

Jan. 2008 – Visiting Professor of Asian Studies, Department of Modern

Sep. 2007 – Present Honorary Research Associate, School of Geography,

July 2004 – 2006 Professor (Visiting) of Disaster Management, School of

July 2002 – July 2003 Research Fellow, Disaster Studies, Landbouw-universiteit

July 1991 - May 1993 Research Officer/Fellow, Murdoch University, Murdoch,

Feb. 1985 - July 1985 Research Officer, WA Legislative Assembly's Select

Vice Tales of Land and Sea: 2002 Drs. Matthew NZ $10,000

6. Honours & Prizes

7. Greg Bankoff & Kathleen Weekley, Celebrating the Centennial of Independence:

(ii) Published articles

2. Greg Bankoff, ‘Hazardousness of Place: A New Comparative Approach to the

3. Greg Bankoff, Wind, Water and Risk: Shaping a Transnational-environmental

4. Greg Bankoff, ‘“Lahat para sa Lahat” (Everything to Everybody): Consensual

6. Greg Bankoff, ‘Deep Forestry: Shapers of the Philippine Forests’, Environmental

16. Greg Bankoff, ‘Comparing Vulnerabilities: Toward Charting an Historical Trajectory

31. Greg Bankoff, ‘Vulnerability as a Measure of Change in Society’, International

(iii) Chapters in books

4. Greg Bankoff and Joseph Christensen, ‘Bordering on Danger: An Introduction’ in

6. Greg Bankoff, ‘Design by Disasters: Seismic Architecture and Cultural Adaptation to

7. Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Fred Krüger, E. Lisa F. Schipper ‘Introduction:

34. Greg Bankoff, ‘Almost an Embarrassment of Riches: Changing Attitudes to the

(iv) Published conference proceedings

2. Greg Bankoff, ‘Profiting From Disasters in the Contemporary Philippines’, Linkages

(v) Other articles

4. Greg Bankoff, ‘Future-Quake: The Tokyo Bay Mega-Quake of 20-Something,

3. Greg Bankoff, ‘The Galleon Trade, Spurring Asia-Pacific Commercial Links’

(ix) Response essays

(x) Book reviews

3. Greg Bankoff, Christi-Anne Castro, Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation.

7. Greg Bankoff, Stephen Mosley, The Environment in World History. Review in

8. Greg Bankoff, Warwick Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical

20. Greg Bankoff, Christiaan Heersink, Dependence on Green Gold; A Socio-economic

(xii) Guest editorship

9. Journal/institute editorial & advisory boards

10. Research evaluation

11. Reviewer of article submitted to and books published by:

12. Principal Lectures since 1995

April 2017: Fire Risk Reduction in Informal Settlements. Workshop organised by

November 2016: Disastrous Pasts: New Directions in Asian Disaster History

May 2016: Asia Research Institute Seminar, National University of Singapore,

November 2015: The Short- and Long-term Responses of European Societies to

October 2015: Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction Seminar,

October 2015: International Anthropology Workshop: Comparative Study of

April 2015: Earthquakes without Frontiers, Interim Partnership Workshop,

March 2015: Evolutions and Revolutions in Water Management, Huygens Institute

November 2014: Geography Department Seminar Series, University of Western

November 2014: History Department Seminar Series, University of Western Australia,

October 2014: Disasters in History: The Philippines in Comparative Perspective An

October 2014: Philippine Sociological Society Conference: Crises Resiliency, and

June 2014: SIEAS TRaNS Conference: Water in Southeast Asia: Navigating

June 2013: The Cultural Politics of Catastrophe: (Post) Colonial Representations of

March 2013: Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, 6 March, University of Nottingham,

April 2012: 21st Annual Philippine Biodiversity Symposium of the Wildlife

March 2012: Imaging Disasters Conference, 1-3 March, Internationales

January 2012: Séminaire «Catastrophes, Risques et Sciences Sociales», 20 January,

January 2012: Organising Disaster Workshop, 13-14 January, Goldsmiths College,

September 2011: 26th ASEASUK Conference, 9-11 September, Magdalene College,

May 2011: Global Resource Conflicts. Political Economy and Transnational