PEOPLE

Sharon M. Quinsaat

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

• Collective action and social movements
• Mass media
• Globalization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• University Researcher, Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2004-present)
• University Research Associate, Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2001-2004)
• Field Research Analyst, Philippine Nonprofit Sector Project, Office of the Dean, National College of Public Administration and Governance (1999-2001)

EDUCATION

• M.A. units in Public Administration, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2001-2003)
• B.A. in Communication Research, University of the Philippines-Diliman (1999)

RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT (SELECTED)

• Co-researcher, "Mendiola Narratives: Memories of Mobilizations and Confrontations with the State", funded by the South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development (2007-present)
• Co-researcher, "An Inquiry into the Negotiating Strategy of the Philippines in the World Trade Organization, 1995-2005", funded by the Creative and Research Scholarship Program of the University of the Philippines (2007-present)
• Co-researcher, "Philippine Agriculture and the Multilateral Trading System: A Review of 10 Years of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture", funded by the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (2006-2007)
• Lead investigator, “Filipino Farmers, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Plant Variety Protection Act” in "Examining the Impact of and Responses to Globalization of Selected Local Communities in the Philippines and Thailand", funded by the Toyota Foundation’s Southeast Asian Regional Exchange Programme (2006)
• Lead investigator, “The Philippine Movement to Change International Trade Rules and Barriers” in the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Research Project on "Global Civil Society Movements: Dynamics in International Campaigns and National Implementation" (2004-2007)
• Lead investigator, "Trade Liberalization and the Benguet Vegetable Sector" in "State-Civil Society Relations in the Context of Globalization", funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)-Philippines (2004-2005)
• Co-researcher, "Philippine Civil Society and the Globalization Discourse", funded by the UNDP-Philippines (2001-2003)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• 2007. “Transparency and Civil-Society Participation in International Trade Negotiations: Will a Philippine Trade Representative Office Pave the Way?” Anib: The Official Newsletter of the UNRISD-Philippine Research Team on Global Civil-Society Movements 4 (November 2007): 14-19.
• With Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo and Ronald C. Molmisa. 2006. “La movilización transnacional en perspective comparada: Investigaciones sobre movimientos alterglobalización en Filipinas (translated from English).” Conflictos globales, voces locales 3: 24-35. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2006. “Mobilizing against Vegetable Importation.” In Ma. Glenda S. Lopez-Wui and Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, eds. People, Profit, and Politics: State-Civil Society Relations in the Context of Globalization , 19-72. Quezon City: Third World Studies Center.
• With Perlita M. Frago and Verna Dinah Q. Viajar. 2004. Philippine Civil Society and the Globalization Discourse. Quezon City: Third World Studies Center and United Nations Development Programme.
• 2003. “Review of Cockfights, horserace and boxing match (why elections are covered as sport) (Sheila S. Coronel, Yvonne T. Chua, and Isagani de Castro Jr.).” Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 19(2): 198-202.
• 2003. “Review of Whose security counts? Participatory research on armed violence and human security in Southeast Asia (Robert Muggah and Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, eds.).” Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies 19(1): 228-232.
• 2002. “Gun Violence under a Gender Lens.” Conjuncture 15(2-3): 12-14, 22.

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS

• College Scholar, College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines-Diliman (2nd Semester AY 1995-1996)