A researcher from the Reconnect/Recollect project examines archival materials related to the Philippines
The Philippines and the University of Michigan, 1870-1935
This website, based upon letters, photographs, articles, and transcripts from the Bentley Historical Library and the William L. Clements Library, uncovers the University of Michigan’s role in colonialism in the Philippines, primarily from 1898 to 1935.
It addresses themes that include military violence, surveillance, public health, public education, gender, media representation, and knowledge production. Many of the essays document colonial sexual and physical violence, resistance, religious discrimination, and racial discrimination. Additionally, several case studies use archival sources to recover Filipino voices, whether as international students studying at U-M, as resistance fighters, or as important agents for making scientific research possible. This is a Michigan in the World project.
Project Overview
Upper left: Mary Cole, Susan Gladwin, and unidentified Filipina (Harry Newton Cole Papers, HS18242); upper right: Prison in city walls, Manila (Frank T. Corriston photograph collection, BL003732); bottom right: Three pensionados at U-M (“Filipinos at Ann Arbor,” Detroit Free Press, October 27, 1901); bottom left: Filipino student’s hand-drawn map (Frederick G. Behner papers, 1893-1924)
