About
Patrick Peralta is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science and a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan. He is also a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Asian Studies at Ateneo de Manila University. Patrick's research examines mass violence, memory politics, and transitional justice in the Philippines and Southeast Asia broadly. His work has been published in The Yale Review of International Studies, The Tufts Hemispheres Journal of International Affairs, and Foreign Policy in Focus.
Previously, Patrick was a Legislative Assistant and an Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Fellow in the Office of U.S. Representative Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (MP-00) and a Foreign Affairs Intern at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. in Government and Politics (with High Honors) and a minor in Asian American Studies.