Prof. Kristyl Obispado, PhD of the UP 茄子视频app (UPD) Department of History is the winner of the 2021 World History Association (WHA) Dissertation Prize for her dissertation 鈥淭he Pacific sailors: Global workers at and on the edge of the Spanish empire (1580s-1640s).”
According to its website (), the WHA, founded in 1982, is a professional association of scholars, teachers, and students organized to promote world history by encouraging teaching, research, publications, and personal interaction.
The association yearly awards the WHA Dissertation Prize to the best doctoral dissertation in world, global, or transnational history. Transnational history is defined by the WHA as 鈥渙ne that examines any historical issue with global implications, including but not limited to the exchange and interchange of cultures, the comparison of two or more civilizations or cultures, or the study in a macrohistorical manner of a phenomenon that had a global impact.鈥
Aside from Obispado鈥檚 dissertation, notable other winners at the 2021 WHA Dissertation Prize were the honorable mentions, 鈥淟iberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839 鈥 1871鈥 by Jake Richards, and 鈥淎 Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Sa鈥檌d bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of An Oceanic Marketplace鈥 by Nicholas Roberts.
Obispado is assistant professor at UPD and specializes in early colonial history of the Philippines and Latin America, early global history, Pacific trade, colonial labor and migration, and microhistory. She does paleography and archival research, and can speak Filipino, English, and Spanish.
She is author of, among others, 鈥淎ng mga Marinong Pilipino sa ika-17 Siglo [The Filipino Seamen in the 17th Century]鈥 published in Saliksik: Saysay ng Salaysay, a refereed E-journal, in 2013, and 鈥淎ng Bayan ng Mariveles sa Harap ng Pangangayaw Pagsapit ng ika-18 Siglo [The Town of Mariveles during Slave Raiding in the 18th Century]鈥 published in Daluyan: Journal ng Wikang Filipino, a refereed journal, in 2010.
Obispado presently heads the five-volume book project, 鈥淕alleons and social control in the Spanish Empire鈥 for the National Historical Commission of the Philippines. This is currently under review and is set to be published sometime between 2022 and 2023.
She is a recipient of various grants, awards, and fellowships, the latest of which are the UP PhD Incentive Awards (2022 – 2023), Beca Tesis, Centro de Estudios Hist贸ricos, Fundaci贸n Colmex, and Fordecyt-Pronaces (August 2019 鈥 December 2020), and the research fellowship of Instituto de Historia del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain (August 2018 鈥 Jan. 16, 2019). Obispado earned her PhD (history) and master鈥檚 degree (history) from El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico in 2021 and 2018, respectively, and her bachelor鈥檚 degree (history) from UPD in 2006, graduating magna cum laude.
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