He has degrees in History, Archaeology and Anthropology from UP Diliman. His latest publications include an edited book on the ethnography of disaster in Albay (2010, Aquinas University of Legazpi, Legazpi City), a book chapter on the institutional history of anthropology in UP (2010, Manohar Publishers, New Delhi) and a journal article on the photographs of the National Geographic Magazine (2011, Chinese University of Hong Kong). He hopes to go to Tawi-Tawi soon to do research on the cultural construction of Catholicism in an Islamic community. He also finds the study of elections a risky but, at the same time, important endeavor for Filipino social scientists.