MYLENE T. DE GUZMAN, PhD 
Assistant Professor

Email: mtdeguzman1@up.edu.ph
Room Number: Silangang Palma 402
Office Phone: 89818500 ext. 2222

Mylene T. De Guzman is an Assistant Professor in the University of the Philippines – Diliman Department of Geography. Her research interests span labor geographies, lesbian geographies, risk perception, geonarratives, digital geographies, and geographic education and pedagogy. She is currently the Vice President for Internals and Memberships of the Philippine Geographical Society and an active member of the American Association of Geographers. She is currently serving as the Managing Editor of the Korean Social Science Journal (KSSJ), the official journal of the Korean Social Science Research Council (KOSSREC).



EDUCATION

> PhD Communication (2025) – Hallym University
> MS Geography (2016) – University of the Philippines Diliman
> BS Geography (2008) – University of the Philippines Diliman

SPECIALIZATION

> Geonarratives
> Media geographies
> Fandom geographies
> Labor geographies
> Queer geographies
> Geographic education and pedagogy
> Risk perception

COURSESTAUGHT

> Geography 1 (Places and Landscapes in a Changing world)
> Geography 119 (Geography of Movement)
> Geography 131 (Geography of the Philippines)
> Geography 145 (Geography of the Pacific)
> Geography 159 (Geography of Africa)
> Geography 185 (Medical Geography)
> Geography 192 (Field Methods in Geography)
> Geography 198 (Special Topic: Health Geography)
> Geography 198 (Special Topic: Geographies of Hallyu)
> Geography 199 (Seminar on Research in Geography)
> SEA 30 (Asian Emporiums: Networks of Culture and Trade in Southeast Asia)

AWARDS AND GRANTS

> Fellow, Brain Korea 21 (BK21) Scholarship, National Research Foundation, South Korea: 2022-2024
> Awardee, One UP Faculty Grant Award in Cultural Geography (Digital Geographies) for Outstanding Teaching and Public Service. 2022-2024
> Awardee, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting Enrichment Funds Grant: April 2019
> Awardee, Highly Commended Paper Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.
“Risk and culture: the case of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines,” published in Disaster Prevention and Management. 2017
> Fellow, National University of Singapore (NUS) Asia Research Institute (ARI) Graduate Student Fellowship: 2015
> Awardee, University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA), Queers w/o Borders International Travel Grant: October 2014
> Awardee, Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC) Research Award Program (RAP): June 2014
> Honor Graduate Eligibility, Civil Service Commission: 2008

RESEARCH PROJECTS

> Geonarratives of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in Negros Island, Philippines from November 2020 – July 2021. This project is funded by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines. The project highlighted the individual narratives of HRDs and microgeographies of violence in Negros Island.
> Voices of Yolanda: Narratives of Risk and Coping among Survivors of Typhoon Yolanda in Tacloban, Leyte; Guiuan, Eastern Samar, and San Francisco, Cebu from September 2014 – April 2015. This is a multi-sited study on the perception of risk and decisions to evacuate among people in communities that were affected by Typhoon Haiyan (local name: Yolanda). The project was funded by the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST – PCIEERD)

PUBLICATIONS

> De Guzman, M.T., Martinez, M.S., Garcia, E., Palis, J., Anacta, V.J., Cadag, J.R., Amorsolo, D.S., Ocampo, L.A., and Gutierrez, D. (2024). Integrating service-learning in geography in Philippine higher education. Pennsylvania Geographer. 62:2, 1-22.

> Ortega, A.A., Dela Cruz, B., Dayrit, C., Saguin, K.K., Garcia, L.M., Martinez, M.S., De Guzman, M.T., Lopez, Y., & Counter-Mapping PH Collective. (2024). Counter-cartographies of resistance : Exposing everyday authoritarianism in the Philippines. In International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies & kollektiv orangotango (Eds.). Beyond Molotovs : A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies (pp. 80-85). Transcipt Verlag.
> De Guzman, M.T., Lopez, Y.P., Ortega, A.A.C. (2022). Geonarratives of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Negros Island, Philippines. BANWAAN: The Philippine Journal of Folklore. 2, 1-24.
> De Guzman, M.T., Palis, J., and Garcia E.B. (2022). Living in a material (COVID-19) world: COVID-19, materialities, and quotidian geographies in the Philippines. Material Culture. 54, 23-44.
> Palis, J. and De Guzman, M.T. (2014/2021). Death by landscape, or re-animating cultural geographies in the Philippines. Philippine Geographical Journal. 57, 1-4.
> Saguin, K.K., Lopez, Y., Cadag, J.R., De Guzman, M.T. and Garcia, E. (2021). Geography’s trajectories in Philippine higher education. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12484
> De Guzman, M.T. (2020). The L Words – lesbian and labor: Physical and social health impacts of call center work on lesbian women in Quezon City, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Social Development. 13, 1-17.
> Dalisay, S.N. and De Guzman, M.T. (2016). Risk and culture: The case of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal. 25:5, 701-714, https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-05-2016-0097

COMPETENCES

> Qualitative research methodologies (ethnographic methods, participatory methods, interviews, focus group discussions)
> Gender and development (GAD) consultation