Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Since October 2017
Ph.D candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany; Research Group: “Electric Statemaking in the Greater Mekong Subregion”
2016-17
Master of Arts in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. With Distinction
2013-15
Magistratum Artium (MA) Major in Sociology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines. Outstanding Graduate Student (Recipient: 2015 Dr. Ricardo Abad Social Science Award)
2008-12
Bachelor of Science in Sociology, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila City, Philippines. Graduated Lone Summa cum Laude (first Summa cum Laude in the history of College of Social Sciences and Development, formerly known as College of Arts) and Batch Valedictorian (Top 1 / 6,000+ graduates)
SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS
2021
Ponce, Floramante S. J. (Dis)integrating the Marginalized: Resource Frontier Dynamics from Below in a Chinese Hydropower Resettlement Community in Northwestern Laos. Paper Presenter. 16th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 12-14 July 2021
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Coping with the New (Im)Mobilities of Hydro/electric Infrastructures: A Tale of Three Youngsters in Post-socialist Laos. Paper Presenter. SIEF (Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore) 15th Congress Breaking the rules? Power, Participation, Transgression. Helsinki, Finland. 19-24 June 2021
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Realizing China’s Dream from Below: Modernity, Market Integration, and Sabay in Banmai Resettlement, Laos. Paper Presenter. Workshop on Conceptualizing the “Belt and Road Initiative” and its Effects. The Belt and Road in Global Perspective Project, University of Toronto. 14-16 June 2021
2020
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Unpacking the Lao State Practices in Facilitating the ‘Made in China’ Dam: The Case of the Nam Tha 1 Hydropower Project. Paper Presenter. Workshop on Transboundary Environmental Governance in Southeast Asia. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 04 December 2020
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Transformations in Food Quantity and Quality in a Chinese Hydropower Resettlement in Northern Laos. Paper Presenter. International Congress on Gastronomy, Sustainability and Development. Cáceres-Extremadura (España). 24-25 September 2020
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Promises of Progress: Everyday Experiences of Development, Disconnection, and Disillusionment in the Hardmoauk Resettlement, Northern Laos. Paper Presenter. 16th EASA Biennial Conference New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe. Lisbon, Portugal. 20-24 July 2020
2016
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Rizal as the First Filipino Sociologist? Exploring the Sociological Thoughts of the Philippine National Hero. Speaker. Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila, Philippines. 30 June 2016
2015
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Muted or Hidden Transcript: The Art of Resistance among Filipino Call Center Agents. 2015 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society (PSS). MSU-Iligan Insitute of Technology, Iligan, Philippines. 15-18 October 2015
Ponce, Floramante S. J. The Art of Attaching Meanings and Coding to Numbers: Participant Observation in a Binguhan. 2015 International Higher Education Research Forum. Century Park Hotel Malate, Manila, Philippines. 19-20 August 2015
2014
Ponce, Floramante S. J. Structuring the Disaster Preparedness in the Disiplina Village Housing Project, Valenzuela City. 2014 National Conference of the Philippine Sociological Society (PSS). Mindanao State University, General Santos City, Philippines. 16-18 October 2014
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS
2020
Grand Prize Winner of Second European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Award for a Postgraduate Student Paper in the Anthropology of Food (Research Title: “Eating (With) Us’: Commensalism, Parasitism, and Transformations in Food Consumption in a Lao Hydropower Resettlement”)
2016
Master’s Excellence Scholarship Award 2016-17, Recipient, Central European University
Commission on Higher Education Research Foreign Studies Scholarship Grant, Recipient, Philippine Government
2015
Gawad Tuklas Awardee, The Most Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Winner, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (Research Title: “Work, Leisure, and Emerging Working Class Identity of Filipino Call Center Agents”)
ACADEMIC POSITION
April 2018 - September 2019
Visiting Research Fellow, National University of Laos
July 2013 - June 2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Social Sciences and Development, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
July 2012 - June 2013
Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Social Sciences and Development, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses on: Introductory Cultural Anthropology; Introductory Sociology; Contemporary Sociological Theory; Quantitative Research; Introductory Social Statistics and Human Demography; Philippine History, Culture, and the Arts
RESEARCH POSITION AND FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
04/2018 - 09/2019
Dissertation fieldwork (the main field site was in Banmai Resettlement, Bokeo Province for twelve months; the remainder was in Vientiane Capital)
12/2016-05/2017
Reengineering, Resistance, and Reflexivity in Philippine Call Centers: Challenging the Victimized Images of Agents and Neoliberalism (Research for Master’s Thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Fabiani and Dr. Ju Li)
04/15/2016 - 06/29/2016
Independent Monitoring Agency (IMA) Consultative Report on the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) Hydroelectric Project in Lao-PDR, Mission 7 [IMA is funded by the Government of Laos (GoL). I worked here as a Research Assistant under the team of Dr. Anna Maria Karaos (Philippines); Ms. Rustica Romero (Philippines); and Ms. Minavanh Pholsena (Laos)]
08/2013 - 06/2015
The Transnational Subjectivity in the Lifestyle Practices of Filipino Call Center Agents
(Research for Master’s Thesis under the supervision of Dr. Anna Marie Karaos and Prof. Dr. Ricardo Abad)
06/2012 - 06/2013
Research Associate / Urban Planner and Development Worker. City Planning and Development Office. City Government of Valenzuela, Philippines
LANGUAGES
Filipino; English; Lao; Thai-Isan; Ilocano; German