Patrick Peralta

Patrick Peralta is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, where he is also a Rackham Merit Fellow and a Graduate Student Affiliate with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies. He is also a Non-Resident Visiting Scholar with the Center for Asian Studies at Ateneo de Manila University.

Patrick's research examines how people make sense of public life in the midst and aftermath of mass atrocities. His academic work has been published by Yale University and Tufts University, and has been supported by the Association for Asian Studies; the Southeast Asia Research Group at Duke University; and Michigan's International Institute, Center for Political Studies, and Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His other writing has appeared in The Diplomat, New Mandala, and Foreign Policy in Focus.

Previously, Patrick was a Legislative Assistant in the Office of U.S. Representative Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, where he was first a Legislative Fellow with the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. He also worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Policy Studies, and holds a B.A. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland.