Associate Professor Mary Acel D. German, MA

Associate Professor Mary Acel D. German, MA

Dean, College of Arts and Letters

Associate Professor Mary Acel D. German holds an MA degree in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and a BA in History from the University of the Philippines, Visayas. Her academic career kicked off in the early 1990s as a researcher to visiting scholars and government and non-government organizations, mostly researching local history and cultural anthropology. While in research, UP Visayas absorbed her as a faculty member of the College of Arts and Science – Division of Social Sciences.

In 1998, the University of Makati invited her to join the Institute of Integrated Development Education (IIDE). She taught social sciences and humanities at the College of Arts and Science (CAS) prior to her first admin assignment as Executive Director of UMak’s Center for Performing and Digital Arts (CEPDA), a designation she held for nine years from 2005 to 2014. When CEPDA evolved into the Center for Broadcast and Digital Arts (CBDA) in 2014, she continued to helm the unit as Dean until it became known today as the College of Arts and Letters (CAL).

As Dean of CAL, she advocates the restoration of the Liberal Arts’ unique place in the academe. Her research interests are ethnographies of mountain communities and anthropological inquiries on identity formation in physical and virtual communities.

Professional Affiliations:

Board of Trustee – Animation Council of the Phils., Inc. (ACPI)
Member – Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT)-The Anthropological Associaton of the Philippines; Philippine Historical Association (PHA); Philippine Association of Communication Educators (PACE); Philippine Communication Society (PCS).

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