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Juan O. Mesquida

  • Associate Professor
  • College of Arts and Sciences

Areas of Interest

  • History of welfare societies in the Spanish period of Philippine history 
  • Historical development and application of credit in the Spanish Philippines
  • Historical roots and evolution of sacred rituals
  • Social interaction of racial groups in the Spanish period

Juan O. Mesquida is an Associate Professor in the History Department of the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at UA&P. He holds a doctoral degree in History from the University of Santo Tomas (Manila) and a licentiate degree in Modern Spanish History (BA and MA) from the Universidad de Oviedo (Spain). Dr. Mesquida has previously served as the Chair of the History Department and as the Operations Secretary of CAS. He loves teaching undergraduate and graduate students courses about world history, Spanish and Latin American history, historical research, and historiography. 

Most of his research revolves around the history of philanthropy in the Spanish period of Philippine history and how it evolved throughout three centuries. At present, he is part of several multi-author book research projects about Philippine history in the Spanish period with local and international scholars. 

Publications

  • “Estatuaria en caña en Filipinas,” in Imaginería indígena mexicana. Una catequesis en caña de maíz, edited by Antonio García-Abásolo, Gabriela García Lascurain and Joaquín Sánchez Ruiz. Córdoba: Cajasur, 2001.
  • “Origin of the ‘Misericordia’ of Manila.” Ad Veritatem 2 (March 2003): 423-462.
  •  “The American Era Seen Through the Novel: La oveja de Nathan by Antonio M. Abad.” Ad Veritatem 4, no. 1 (October 2004): 11-28.
  • “The Early Years of the Misericordia of Manila (1594-1625).” Revista de Cultura, International edition, 14 (April 2005): 59-81.
  • “The Misericordia of Manila: Founder and Patron of the Hospital de San Juan de Dios,” in the Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Medicine in the Philippines, edited by Angel Aparicio, O.P. Manila: University of Santo Tomas, 2008: 85-110. 
  • “Early Social Assistance in Spanish Manila: The 1606 Statutes of the Misericordia.” Synergeia, 3 (2009): 5-28.
  • “La población de Manila y las capellanías de misas de los españoles: Libro de registros 1642-1672,” Revista de Indias, Vol. LXX, no. 249 (May-August 2010), 469-500.
  • “Negotiating the Boundaries of Civil and Ecclesiastical Powers: The Misericordia of Manila (1594-1780s),” in Brotherhood and Boundaries, edited by Stefania Pastore, Adriano Prosperi, and Nicholas Terpstra (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2011), 519-539.
  • “Spaces, Material Culture, and Changing Roles: The Misericordia of Manila (1594-1869),” in Into the Frontier. Studies on Spanish Colonial Philippines. In Memoriam Lourdes Díaz-Trechuelo, edited by Marya Svetlana T. Camacho (Pasig, The Philippines: University of Asia and the Pacific, 2011), 187-219.
  • “Negotiating Charity, Politics, and Religion in the Colonial Philippines: The Brotherhood of the Misericordia of Manila (1594-1780s), in Faith’s Boundaries: Laity and Clergy in Early Modern Confraternities. Edited by Nicholas Terpstra, Adriano Prosperi, and Stefania Pastoria. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols, 2012, 187-206.
  • “Pious Funds across the Pacific (1668-1823): Charitable Bequests or Credit Source?” The Americas 74:4 (October 2018), 661-697. 
  • “Holy Week Processions in the Philippines: A Devotional and Artistic Tradition on the Rise (The case of the Parish Church of Our Lady of the Abandoned Church in Marikina)” Journal of History Vol. LXIV (January-December 2018), 173-204.

Book Reviews

  • Sá, Isabel dos Guimarães (2018). O Regresso dos Mortos: Os Doadores da Misericórdia do Porto e a Expansão Oceânica (Séculos XVI-XVIII). Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Pp. 331, in the e-Journal of Portuguese History Vol. 18 no. 1 (June 2020), published online on January 22, 2021. (https
  • The Spanish Pacific, 1521–1815. A Reader of Primary Sources. Edited by Christina H. Lee and Ricardo Padrón. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 249, in The Americas Vol. 78 Issue 2 (April 2021), Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021, pp. 335-337.

Papers Presented

  • “The 1601 Statutes of the Misericordia of Manila: Portuguese Framework and Local Adaptation.” Macau-Philippines Historical Relations Conference, University of Macau, Macau, February 18-20, 2004.
  • “Lending Activities of the Obras Pías in the Maritime Trade of Manila (1668-1823).” The Philippines and Spain. The Legacy of Legazpi. International congress organized by the Philippine and Spanish governments, National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, March 4-6, 2004.
  • “The Inarticulate in the History of the Misericordia of Manila,” Manila Studies Association Conference, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Manila, August 2-3, 2006.
  • “The Misericordia of Manila: Financing Charities through Maritime Trading Loans,” 19th Conference of the International Association of Historians of Asian, Intercontinental Hotel, Makati, November 22-25, 2006.
  • “Negotiating the Boundaries of Civil and Ecclesiastical Powers: the Misericordia of Manila (1594-1780s),” Brotherhood and Bounderies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, September 19-20, 2008.
  • “Transformation and Adaptation of the Activities and Facilities of the Misericordia of Manila,” Lourdes Diaz-Trechuelo, In Memoriam: A Conference on Spanish Colonial Philippines, University of Asia and the Pacific, 11-12 March 2009.
  • “Respondentia Endowments of the Misericordia of Macao and Manila in the Maritime Trade of the Iberian Empires in Asia (1660-1820s),” Economic Crises, Social Crises, XXX Conference of the Associação Portuguesa de História Económica e Social, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, November 19-20, 2010.
  • “The Cortes de Cádiz and the Philippine Path towards Independence,” Congreso Internacional las Cortes de Cádiz y su impacto en la América colonial, Universdad de Piura, Lima Campus (Peru), August 1-3, 2012.
  • “Retrospectiva: veinte y tres años de asesoramiento en la University of Asia and the Pacific, (1989-2012),” III Encuentro de la red para la enseñanza transversal de las humanidades (RETH), Universidad de Piura, Piura (Peru), August 6-7, 2012.
  • “Holy Week Processions in the Philippines: A Devotional and Artistic Tradition on the Rise,”  38th National Conference on National and Local History of the Philippine National Historical Society (PNHS), Lyceum of Aparri, Cagayan (The Philippines), October 19-21, 2017.
  • “Transcultural Bodies, Hearts, and Purses,” Latin American Studies Association / Asia 2022: Rethinking Trans-Pacific Ties: Asia and Latin America, February 15-19, 2022 (virtual congress).

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