1899 Lt. Col. Thomas H. Hamer is assigned as the first American military governor of Cebu. Cebu is designated as a subdistrict under the Department of the Visayas with headquarters in Iloilo. On this day, the Americans also establish in what is now Freedom Park the Post of Cebu, later called Warwick Barracks. 1902 Birth […]
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Yu receives research grant from the Sumitomo Foundation
Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, director of the USC Cebuano Studies Center, and a professor of the Department of Languages and Literature, was awarded a research grant by the Sumitomo Foundation. The grant is for the comparative study of maternal representations in both Japanese and Philippine literature. Out of the 305 applications received by the Foundation, only […]