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Dr. Allan E. S. Lumba, History

  • Assistant Professor, History

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Availability:

Fall 2024: I will be a fellow at Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies.
Winter 2025: I will be teaching two new courses: Pacific Worlds (lecture) and Capitalism from Below (seminar)

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Biography

Biography

Allan E. S. Lumba is a cultural and social historian of Asia and the Pacific. He engages questions of racial capitalism, imperialism, and decolonization. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Washington. His book, Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines, charts the historical intersections and tensions between race, knowledge, sovereignty, and the capitalist market in the United States and the Philippines.

He is currently at work on an infrastructural history of sinking cities around Asia and the Pacific, titled “Subsidence: Surfacing Life in a Sinking City." This new project has recently received funding from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University (2024) and the SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2024-2026).

He has published articles and chapters in the journal, Diplomatic History, and editorial collections, such as A Cultural History of Money and Credit: A Global Perspective and The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Making of Modern America. Previously, he served as Global American Studies postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center (2013 - 2015), Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan (2015 - 2018), and assistant professor at Virginia Tech. He is the past recipient of numerous research support including the Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Grant, Foreign Language Areas Studies Fellowships, and multiple university grants and fellowships from the University of Washington and Virginia Tech. He has also served as resident fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago and University of Michigan's Bentley Library.

Teaching activities

Teaching

I teach classes on racial capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, decolonization and other social movements. My classes mainly focus on Philippine, Southeast Asian, Pacific, North American, Asian American, and global history. 

Publications

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