MARIT STINUS-CABUGON
LISANDRO “Leloy” Claudio is an associate professor in the history and literature departments of De La Salle University, Manila, a contributor and commentator of Rappler, and recipient of the George McT. Kahin Book Prize 2019 for his book Liberalism and the Postcolony: Thinking the State in the 20th-Century Philippines. The Kahin Book Prize is given by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) which, in its own words, is “a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia and the study of Asia. With approximately 7,000 members worldwide… the AAS is the largest organization of its kind.”