Colleen Woods 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD 20742 (734)-730-6684 woodscp@umd.edu Education 2012, Ph.D in History, University of Michigan Dissertation title: Bombs, Bureaucrats, and Rosary Beads: The United States, the Philippines, and the Making of Global Anti-communism Committee: Penny Von Eschen (Chair), Howard Brick, Deirdre de la Cruz, Matthew Lassiter, and Damon Salesa 2006, M.A., Liberal Studies/American Studies, Graduate Center-City University of New York Thesis title: The Significance of Disloyalty: Immigration, Imperialism, and Americanization in New York City Public Schools, 1916-1919 Advisor: Neil Smith 2003, B.A., History, University of Michigan Academic Appointments Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland, 2013-Present Affiliate Faculty in Asian American Studies, University of Maryland, 2013-Present Mellon-Keiter Postdoctoral Fellow, Amherst College, 2012-2013 Publishing Freedom Incorporated: American Imperialism and Decolonization in the Age of Philippine Independence (forthcoming, Cornell University Press). "The Burden of Empire: The US in the Philippines, 1898-1965," in Christopher R.W. Dietrich, ed., A Companion to U.S. Foreign Policy, Colonial Era to the Present, (Wiley Blackwell, 2020) "Seditious Crimes and Rebellious Conspiracies: Transnational Anti-communism and U.S. Empire in the Philippines," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 53., No. 1, January 2018 "Building Empire's Archipelago: The Imperial Politics of Filipino Labor in the Pacific," LABOR: Studies of Working Class History in the Americas, Vol. 13, Issue 3-4, December 2016 "Review of Muehlenbeck, Philip. Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective," H- Diplo, January, 2013, H-Net Reviews "Larawan Ng Pampublikong Administrasyon, Saling Sarili: Journal of Filipino and Philippine Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2009 Review of United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism, International Labor and Working-Class History, Volume 69, No. 1, March 2006
Awards and Fellowships Faculty Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), 2015-2016 William Appleman Williams Junior Faculty Research Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), 2013-2014 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2011-2012 Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School, Declined, 2011-2012 Graduate Student Fellow, University of Michigan, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, 2010-2011 International Research Award, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2010 Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, 2009-2010 U.S. Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Tagalog/Filipino, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin, Summer 2009 U.S. Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies, Tagalog/Filipino, 2008-2009 Thinking and Teaching in Global Dimensions Fellow, University of Michigan, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Spring/Summer 2009 Grant Opportunities in Collaborative Spaces Technology Fellow, University of Michigan, 2008-2009 Global Transformations Fellow, Center for International and Comparative Studies, University of Michigan, 2008-2009 Invited Talks "Loose Guns: Counterinsurgency, Amnesty, and the Political Economy of Violence," Global History Center, Warwick University (UK), June 2018 "The International Solidarity of Anti-Communist Nations: Covert Warfare and Intra-Asian Aid," Contemporary History Institute, Ohio University, March 2018 The Freedom Sun of the Katipuneros: Anti-Communism, Race, and the Politics of Covert Warfare in Cold War Southeast Asia," Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina, February 2018 "Scholars and Statesmen: Colonial Knowledge and the Making and Un-Making of American Empire, University of Michigan, February 2017 1
"Globalizing Huklandia: Counterinsurgency, Decolonization and Anti-Communist Geographies, National University of Singapore, May 2016 Fighting Neoliberalism in Higher Education, Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines, January 2016 The United States, the Philippines, and the Making of Global Anti-Communism, Cornell University, October 2015 Writing Transnational History, Cornell University, October 2015 Dilemmas of the Global: Space and Epistemology, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, February 2012 A Dirty Half-Hidden War: The Politics of Intra-Asian Aid, The Center for the Cold War and the United States, New York University, October 2011 Empire: Producing Difference, Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan, September 201 Conference Presentations Labor, Surveillance, and Transpacific Anticommunism, Asian Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2019 Occupational Hazards: Race, Labor and the U.S. Military on Okinawa, Organization of American Historians, April 2018 Scales of Cold War History in Southeast Asia, American Historical Association, January 2017 Comparative Histories of Settler Colonialism, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2016 What Does Autonomy Mean?: Decolonization, Development, and the Politics of Liberation, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2016 From Idaho to Apra Harbor: Filipino Migrant Labor and the US Military's Sea of Bases, Association for Asian Studies, April 2016 US Military Bases, Filipino Migration, and US Empire, American Historical Association, January 2016 A Sea of Bases: Migration, Labor, and Empire, Social Science History Association, November 2015 Keywords in Empire Studies, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2015 Labor in the U.S. Empire, Labor and Working-Class Studies in History Association Annual Meeting, June 2015 A Free-World That Prays Together Stays Together: The Rosary Crusade in the Philippines and Global Networks of Catholic Anti-Communism, Organization of American Historians, April 2014 Building Empire's Archipelago: The Politics of Filipino Labor in the Postwar Pacific, Labor and Empire Conference, November 2014
Asians helping Asians: Race, Colonialism, and the Freedom Company in Vietnam, Vietnam National University, December 2013 "It Took 40 Years to Build Something Like That: American Colonial Nostalgia in the Philippines after WWII, American Studies Association Conference, Washington DC, November 2013 War and Empire on the Frontiers, North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 2013 Historical Agency and Capitalist Utopias, Modern American History, University of Michigan, May 2012 Corruption, Anti-Communism, and Re-thinking Modernization Theory in the Philippines, American Studies Association, October 2011 The World Brotherhood of Freedom Loving Nations, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2010 Cold War American Universities in the Philippines, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan,August 2010 Managing Democracy: American Universities and Postcolonial Governance in the Philippines, 1953-1956, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, June 2008 Bringing Progress to the People: Social Welfare and the Meaning of Independence in Postwar U.S. and Philippine Relations Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, June 2007 The Significance of Disloyalty: The American Imperial Project and New York City Public Schools, 1916-1919, Historians Against the War Conference, February 2006 Teaching Graduate Seminar: Readings in U.S. History from 1865 to Present Graduate Seminar: Readings in the History of U.S. in the World Graduate Seminar: Researching and Writing Transnational American History Undergraduate: History and the Politics of Memory Undergraduate: History of the Pacific War Undergraduate: History of U.S. Foreign Relations 1914-Present Undergraduate: History of U.S. Foreign Relations from the Colonial Era to 1914 Undergraduate: U.S. and World Affairs Undergraduate: History of the Vietnam Wars Undergraduate: State Secrets: Writing the History of the Central Intelligence Agency Professional Service Reviewer, Journal of American History Reviewer, Comparative Studies in Society and History Reviewer, Cambridge University Press Reviewer, Cold War History
Lead Researcher and Academic Consultant, Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project Wrote historical findings section for Filipino Veterans of World War Two Congressional Gold Medal Act (Public Law 114-265) Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, America s Media Makers, Expert Panelist, 2014 Faculty Mentor, American Council of Learned Societies, Served as one of 5 faculty mentors for the ACLS Dissertation Completion fellows at 3-day workshop, 2015 Report on Conducting Archival Research in the Philippines for Woodrow Wilson Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2013 University and Department Service U.S. Military History Search Committee Member, 2017-2018 History of Emerging Capitalism Search Committee Member, 2016-2017 20th Century Japan Research Award Committee, ongoing Executive Committee, 2014-2016 Undergraduate Committee, 2015-2017 Standing Nominating Committee, 2013-2015 Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Adviser, 2013-2014