Anthropologist/Mobile Phone Expert

Awards

- 1999 First Class Honours

- 1999 Mark Doughty Scholarship

- 2000 Australian Postgraduate Scholarship

- 2002 Asian Travelling Fieldwork Scholarship, the University of Melbourne

- 2002 Travel Bursary from the Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society, the University of Melbourne

- 2003 Travel Bursary to attend Mobile Communications: Social and Political Effects conference (Budapest), from the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile.

- 2004 Population Health Investing in Research Students’ Training Grant. School of Population Health, the University of Melbourne

- 2004 Travel Bursary to attend The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People,
Connections conference (Budapest), from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and T-Mobile.

- 2006. Travel Bursary to attend Cultural Space and Public Space in Asia, Seoul, Korea.

- (2003). Virtual strangers: Young love and texting in the Filipino archipelago of cyberspace. In K. Nyiri (Ed.), Mobile Democracy: Essays on Society, Self and Politics (pp. 225-239). Vienna: Passager Verlag.
LINK: http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu/Passagen_engl3.htm

- (2005). Desire and loathing in the cyber Philippines. In R. Harper (Ed.), The Inside Text: Social Perspectives on SMS in the Mobile Age. London: Springer-Verlag. Download

- (2005). Folk Catholicism in the cyber Philippines: The Lord is my textmate. In K. Nyiri (Ed.), The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections. Vienna: Passagen Verlag
LINK: http://21st.century.phil-inst.hu/Passagen_engl4.htm

- (2006). Unfailthful: Enchantment and disenchantment through mobile use. In J. Hoflich & M. Hartmann (Eds.), An Ethnographic View on Mobile Communication. Berlin. Download

- (2007). in press. Constructions of Seduction: Premarital Sex in the Catholic Philippines. Journal: Philipinas.