TY - JOUR
AU1 - Choy, Catherine Ceniza
AB -  THE LIFE AND W O R K OF E N C A R N A C I O N CATHERINE CENIZA CHOY Philippine historian Encarnacion Alzona was a pioneering woman in multiple ways. She was the first Filipino woman to earn a doctoral degree, to chair the History Department of the University of the Philippines, to become a University of the Philippines regent, and to receive the Philippine title of National Scientist. In addition to these achievements, Alzona belonged to a pioneer generation of Philippine women's historians as well as the first generation of Filipina academic intellectuals. She was the first scholar to comprehensively document Filipino women's history, which culminated in her second book, The Filipino Woman: Her Social, Economic, and Political Status, 1565-1933, first published in 1934 and revised in 1937.1 Alzona's scholarship continues to inform Philippine studies and Southeast Asian Studies. The University of the Philippines published Encarnacion Alzona: An Anthology in 1996. Maria Luisa T. Camagay, who compiled the several hundred articles and speeches in the anthology, concluded her short biography of Alzona by describing her as "a woman to be reckoned with, and a woman worth emulating. Dr. Alzona is a great Filipino" (Camagay 
TI - A Filipino Woman in America: The Life and Work of Encarnacion Alzona
JF - Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture
DO - 10.1215/00166928-39-3-127
DA - 2006-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/a-filipino-woman-in-america-the-life-and-work-of-encarnacion-alzona-JDCgdXanCo
SP - 127
VL - 39
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -