About
Patrick Peralta is a Ph.D. student in 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 Visiting Scholar with the Center for Asian Studies at Ateneo de Manila University.
Patrick's research examines mass violence, memory politics, and transitional justice, with particular attention to Southeast Asia. His academic work has been published in Hemispheres: Journal of International Affairs with Tufts University and Review of International Studies with Yale University. His other writing has appeared in 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.
