Dr. Stephanie Marie Coo is the Philippine-Chinese author of the multi-awarded book, Clothing the Colony: Nineteenth-century Philippine Sartorial Culture, 1820-1896 (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019), which received Leiden University’s (Netherlands) IIAS-ICAS biennial International Book Prize 2021 for Best Book in Humanities, the 39th National Book Award 2022 and the John C. Kaw Prize for Best Book on History. Between 2019 and 2020, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (EU Horizon2020-Athenea3i) at the Universidad de Granada (Spain) and NOVA School of Law-Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).
She obtained her PhD in History (summa cum laude) from Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), Master of Arts in History from the Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines). She holds an Associate Professorship at the Department of History of the Ateneo de Manila University, where she has been teaching since 2002 and where she served as Chair of the Internationalization Committee and Coordinator for Internationalization.
Currently, she is at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB, Germany), for a project supported by the Office of Senator Loren Legarda, the Philippine Consulate-General in Frankfurt and the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs – Foreign Service Institute. Working with Prof. Dr. Roger Friedlein of RUB´s Fakultät für Philologie, her next book focuses on „Los Manilos: Spanish Sojourners in the Philippines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.“ She draws from her research at the different archives in Spain, making use of the Güell-Lopez Family correspondences, photographs and corporate records from the Arxiu Nacional de Catalunya, the Casa Brusi collection at the Archivo Histórico de la Ciudad de Barcelona (AHCB) and the Archivos Familiares at the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cantabria in Santander. <<Email: scoo@ateneo.edu>
