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Jopson, Dr. Teresa

Teresa Jopson
Position at ABI:
E-mail:
teresa.jopson [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Areas of research:
post-conflict governance; the ‘war on drugs’; gender, human rights, and health in conflict, peacebuilding, and urban migration
Regional focus:
Southeast Asia
Professional experience:
2025
Lecturer, University of Passau
2024 - 2028
Member (Gender and human rights expert), Regional Validation Advisory Group on Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV, Hepatitis B and Syphilis and Accelerated Control of Viral Hepatitis in the Western Pacific Region, World Health Organization
2024 – 2025
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
2022 - 2023
Guest Lecturer, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Department of Cultural, Social and Educational Sciences, Humboldt-University, Berlin
2021-2022
Research Assistant, ‘Women’s Labour in Civil Wars’ Dr. Jenny Hedström, Department of War Studies and Military History, Swedish Defence University
2015
Tutor, Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University
2013 - 2015
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines, Manila
2010 - 2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, UP-Manila
2010
Researcher, Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples’ Rights, Manila
2004 - 2010
Researcher and documentary filmmaker, Kodao Productions, Manila
2004
Researcher, Health Advocacy and Information Network, Manila
2004
Field School Assistant, Anthropology Department, UP Diliman
Education:
2015 - 2021
PhD Political and Social Change, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Insurgents: Constructing the Moro Gender Order in Mindanao Conflict and Migration (ANU Gender Institute Prize for Best Dissertation in 2021)
2008 - 2009
MA Development Studies, Major in Human Rights, Development and Social Justice, Minor in Conflict, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands
1999 - 2003
BA Anthropology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines

Post-conflict governance in Southeast Asia, Arnold Bergstraesser Institut 2024

Confronting the War on Drugs in Southeast Asia, Arnold Bergstraesser Institut 2024

Confronting the War on Drugs in the Philippines Database, with J. Lamchek, 2024

Gender, conflict, and urban migration in Mindanao, Southern Philippines, 2015-2021

Voices and Images from the Mountains: Community-based health and social impact assessment of large-scale mining in Cordillera, Philippines mining communities, funded by Wellcome Trust (UK), 2012-2014 [co-applicant]

Postcolonial Studies, global editor

German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA - Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie), member

Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (Anthropological Association of the Philippines), member

Urban Poor Resource Center of the Philippines, board member

International Political Science Association (IPSA), member

Lamchek, J. and T. Jopson. 2024. “Confronting the Philippines’ War on Drugs: A Literature Review”, Sociology Compasshttps://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.13209

Jopson, T. 2023. “Moro Women’s Participation and Legitimation in the Bangsamoro Peace Process.” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 42:2, https://doi.org/10.1177/18681034231178327

Jopson, T. and A. Sakaran. 2020. “Mapangahas na Pananaliksik: Pagbubuo ng Kaalaman at Katatagan sa ‘Gera Laban sa Droga’ [Insurgent Approach to Research: Building community knowledge and resistance against the ‘War on Drugs’ in the Philippines]”. Aghamtao, 28, 45-73.

Jopson, T. 2017. “Gender Justice: ‘Gender’ in the Bangsamoro Development Plan” in Seedat, M., S. Suffla, D. J. Christie (Eds), Enlarging the Scope of Peace Psychology: African and World-Regional Contributions. Springer Peace Psychology Book Series, 221-238. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45289-0_11

Jopson, T. 2014. “Revolutionary Justice in the Philippines.” Peace Review: Journal of Social Justice, 26:2, 242-249http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2014.906992.

List of Publications Jopson (194.28 KB)