Below is a link to the fourth installment in a series of IHP Dispatches, written by Alyssa Paredes, assistant professor of anthropology at UM-Ann Arbor. She recounts a trip to the southern Philippines in July 2025 with team members from the project called ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan. Paredes positions the team’s sharing of copies of materials from U-M’s vast collections of Philippine materials, their dynamic exchanges with local collaborators, and the knowledge-sharing made possible through those exchanges as part of the project’s broader efforts to build and maintain reparative connections with descent communities. ReConnect/ReCollect joined the IHP as an affiliate project site last year to continue their work, which includes this community consultation.
(Photo above: “C is for culture.” A group photo of the community consultation at the Bangsamoro Museum, Cotabato City, in July 2025.)
Read "A Dispatch from the Southern Philippines" by Alyssa Paredes.
