UP Asian Center student, Marie Beatriz D. Gulinao, has been awarded the 2025 COOPERATE Grant of the UP Office of International Linkages. Gulinao is an MA in Asian Studies candidate specializing in Northeast Asia - Japan. She will be conducting her fieldwork in Hiroshima, Japan, for her thesis, "Building Global Memory from the Grassroots: the Hibakusha in War Memory Efforts from Japan to the Philippines, 1977-2019" and will be supervised by UP Asian Center Associate Professor Dr. Jocelyn O. Celero (also a COOPERATE grantee), and Dr. Itaru Nagasaka of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan. 

ABOUT BEA GULINAO

Marie Beatriz Gulinao is currently a student of the UP Asian Center taking up MA in Asian Studies specializing in Northeast Asia - Japan. She is currently an instructor at the Department of History of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) and a lecturer at the Department of History at the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P). She has a Masters in Education (Basic Education Teaching) from ADMU. Her thesis is entitled, "Building Global Memory from the Grassroots: the Hibakusha in War Memory Efforts from Japan to the Philippines, 1977-2019."

ABOUT THE COOPERATE GRANT

Administered by the UP Office of International Linkages, the Continuous Operational and Outcomes-based Partnership for Excellence in Research and Academic Training Enhancement or COOPERATE grant aims to promote the development of research and creative manpower of the University through research cooperation and academic training with international partner universities. Its main objective is to increase the research and creative productivity of UP to aid in nation-building and to uphold its mandate as the National Research University.

COOPERATE aspires to increase the number of students who are successfully able to finish their degrees (Master’s/Doctoral) in a timely manner, through co-advisership with experts in international partner universities and through active research cooperation. Funding, which includes travel expenses, accommodation, and living expenses will be provided to the qualified graduate student and research adviser. Read more about the grant.

 The UP Asian Center offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. The Center offers a Ph.D.  program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. The Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website. For other news and upcoming events at the Asian Center, click here.