After finishing his undergraduate degree in history in the Philippines, Clark Alejandrino trained in Sinology in Australia and went on to finish a Ph.D. in East Asian Environmental History at Georgetown University. He specializes in the environmental history of China, especially its climate and animal history, covering the fifth to the twentieth century in his research. He is currently preparing a book manuscript on typhoons in the history of the South China coast and preparing to embark on a new project exploring the history of migratory birds in East Asia. At Trinity, he teaches courses on Chinese history, environmental history, world history, and Pacific history. He has received funding for his research from the Social Science Research Council, American Council of Learned Societies, Henry Luce Foundation, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the National Central Library of Taiwan.

curriculum vitae

Books/Monographs:

• History of the 1902 Exclusion Act: American Colonial Transmission and the Deterioration of Filipino-Chinese Relations. Manila: Kaisa, 2003.

Refereed Journal Articles:

• “The Population History of the Chinese in the Philippines: An Evaluative Historiography.” Philippine Population Review 9.1 (December 2010): 85-108.

Book Chapters:

• “History of the 1902 Exclusion Act.” In More Tsinoy Than We Admit, edited by Richard T. Chu, 261-300. Manila: Vibal, 2015.

Book Reviews:

• “Review of Chris Courtney, The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood.” Twentieth-Century China 44.1 (January 2019): e1-e3.
• “Review of Aristotle C. Dy, SJ, Chinese Buddhism in Catholic Philippines: Syncretism as Identity.” Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints 65.1 (2017): 107-112.     
  

Work in Progress:

• Pan Wei, Kobayashi Yuga, Clark Alejandrino, Man Zhimin, Yan Wanglin, Yan Tingxia, and Li Dawei, “?????????????????? – ???????????” [Study of Typhoon Activity along the Coastal Northeast Asia in the Last Three Hundred Years: Based on Historical Documents from China, Japan, and Korea].

Invited Talks:

• “Guangdong and the Evolution of Chinese Ideas about Typhoons,” Asian Extremes: Climate, Meteorology and Disaster in History, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, May 18, 2018.

Invited Talks (in Chinese):

• “?????: ?????” (The Wind God of Leizhou: Typhoons and Ritual), Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan. January 5, 2018. Discussant: Roger Shih-Chieh Lo, National Taiwan University.
• “????:?????????” (Geographies of Climate: The State of Climate and Environmental History), 16th Lecture of the Environmental History Lecture Series, History Department, Peking University, Beijing, China, December 22, 2016.  
• “?????????:????????????????????????” (Geographies and Cultures of Climate: Typhoon Geography and Culture in Guangdong’s Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island), Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan. December 18, 2015. Discussant: Michael Shi-yung Liu, Academia Sinica.
  

Papers Presented:

• “Fighting Typhoons: Mass Mobilization and Knowledge in Mao Period Fangfeng Movements,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Washington D.C., USA. March 23, 2018.
• “A Culture of Typhoons in Qing Guangdong,” 3rd East Asian Environmental History Conference, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan, October 25, 2015.
  

• Postdoctoral Fellowship 2019-2021 in East Asian Environmental Humanities, Yale University (Declined), 2019
• Postdoctoral Fellowship 2019-2020 in Chinese Studies, Stanford University (Declined), 2019
• Doctoral Fellowship, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, 2017
• Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2015
• Conference Travel Grant, Georgetown University Graduate School, 2015
• Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies, Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library of Taiwan, 2015
• Pre-dissertation Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Critical Silk Road Studies Sawyer Seminar, Georgetown University, 2015
• China Studies Pre-dissertation Summer Grant, Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS, 2014
• Hisham Sharabi Essay Prize for “A Culture of Climate in Late Imperial China: Typhoons in Qing Guangdong,” Department of History, Georgetown University, 2013
• Five-Year Graduate School Fellowship, Georgetown University, 2012