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  • Rafael, A Story in Portraits

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    I returned to Vicente Rafael’s essay on photography after learning of his passing on February 21, 2026. Professor Rafael, as I continued to call him even after knowing him for years, was seventy. Our conversations became more regular after I began graduate studies at Cornell, where he had also studied in the early 1980s. I…

  • Vicente Rafael, Historian, 70

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    Vicente L. Rafael (February 16, 1956 – February 21, 2026) was a pioneering historian of the Philippines whose work transformed the study of colonialism and political power. A longtime professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Rafael reshaped Philippine historiography by demonstrating how empire operates through language and the fraught…