Department of History
Michael Hawkins, PhD
Associate Professor
Department Chair, Department of History
402.280.2653
Humanities Center 233
MichaelHawkins@creighton.edu
Michael Hawkins received his PhD in history from Northern Illinois University in 2009. His research interests revolve around empire, Islam, and agency in Asia with a particular interest in notions of historical time. Michael is a former Fulbright Fellow to the Philippines where he lived for many years. His is the author of Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippine Muslim South (2013).
PhD (2009) Northern Illinois University
MA (2004) Boise State University
BA (2002) Brigham Young University
History of Southeast Asia
Modern China
Modern Japan
Colonialism and Agency
Colonial Legacies in Asia
Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South (NIU Press, 2013)
Filipino Tapestry: Tagalog Language Through Culture, w/ Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012)
Tagalog Verb Dictionary, w/ Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail (NIU Press, 2011
“Life and Times: The Temporal Habitations of R.A. Kartini,” Kronoscope, 14, no. 1 (April 2014): 35-50.
“Masculinity Reborn: Chivalry, Misgyony, Potency and Violence in the Philippines’ Muslim South, 1899-1914,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 44, no. 2 (June 2013): 250-265.
“Our Present Concern: Historicism, Teleology and Contingent Histories of a More Democratic Global Past,” Rethinking History 15, no. 3 (September 2011): 373-392.
“Managing a Massacre: Savagery, Civility and Gender in Moro Province in the Wake of Bud Dajo,” Philippine Studies 58, no. 1 (2011): 81-103
“Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South,” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 39, no.3 (Oct. 2008): 411-29.
Magis Faculty Research Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska (Summer, 2014)
Magis Core Development Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska (July, 2013)
J. William Fulbright Research Grant, 2007-2008, Philippines (awarded March, 2007)
