Recipients

Student Awardees
The following is the list of fellowships and grants awarded to students up to 2023:
Belinda A. Aquino Philippine Studies Award

  • J. P. Alonzo, Public Administration
  • Jake Atienza, Sociology
  • Sharon Estioca, Linguistics
  • Marie Jocelyn Marfil, Music
  • Jeannie Magdua, Asian Studies
  • Jayson Parba, Languages

Ligaya Fruto Award

  • Stephen Acabado, Anthropology
  • Elena Clariza, Asian Studies
  • Paul Cosme, Music
  • Bernard Ellorin, Music
  • Charissa Fabia, Religion
  • Froilan Fabro, Music
  • Miguel Llora, American Studies
  • Jonathan Sawyer, Urban Planning

Corky Trinidad Scholarship Award

  • Adrian Alarilla, History
  • Dylan Beatty, Geography
  • Isabel Chew, Asian Studies
  • Rusyan Mamiit, Environment Management
  • Aaron Rom Moralina, History
  • Marie Antonette A. Ramos, Ethnic Studies
  • Angela Sebastian, Fine Arts

Alfonso Yuchengco Award

  • Michael Abrigo, Economics
  • Dylan Beatty, Geography
  • Michael Garner, Asian Studies
  • Mathew Nelson, Language
  • Cecilia Noble, Sociology
  • Jan Vincent Toledo, Asian Studies
  • Louward Allen Zubiri, Demography

In 2014, five UH students were awarded grants for their projects. This is by far the most productive year in the scholarship competition. For details, please click this link.

Photo shows Antonette Ramos during a ceremony on May 2012 (in between Dean Ned Shultz and Mrs. Hana Trinidad, widow of Corky Trinidad, Dr. Belinda Aquino, former CPS Director, UH Foundation CEO Donna Vucinich, Chancellor Virginia Shaw, and CPS Director Vina Lanzona.

Antonette Ramos

Antonette (see above picture) is the first student to be granted the Corky Trinidad Endowment Scholarship. She is an undergraduate student majoring in Ethnic Studies, and is leaving for Washington, D.C. for an internship at the Smithsonian Museum. While there, she intends to conduct research on the BIMAK community as a site for identity construction, or multiple identities as “Filipinos” and “Filipino-Americans.” She has since graduated from UH.

Marie Joy Marfil

Marie Jocelyn Marfil

Another grantee is Marie Jocelyn “Joy” Marfil, a Ph. D student in Music Composition at the University of Hawaii. Joy as she is known to her friends received a $2,000 grant from the Belinda A. Aquino International Philippine Studies Endowment in summer 2013. She went to Davao to study the indigenous music of the Mansaka. Joy obtained her Bachelor of Music (Cum Laude) and Master of Music in Composition at the University of the Philippines. As a recipient of Fulbright Scholarship, she graduated with a Master of Arts in Music Theory at the State University of New York. See Joy’s field report here. She graduated in 2016 from UH.

Adrian Alarilla

Adrian Alarilla
PhD Student, Department of History

A more recent research is done by Adrian Alarilla, PhD in Southeast Asian History, who was awarded a $2,000 grant from the Corky Trinidad Endowment Scholarship. That grant enabled him to conduct archival work toward his dissertation (“Filipino Labor, Gender, and Kinship across Empire and Nation”) that interrogated the impact of U.S. imperialism, particularly in the issues of migration, labor, religion and identity in Hawai’i and Mindanao, through the perspectives of gender and geography. In his own words, Adrian used “multi-sited archival work in different collections that privileged the perspective of the migrant in motion by looking at their own writings, oral histories, and testimonies across time and space.”

In 2022, Adrian completed his research work from different libraries in the USA amid the raging COVID-19 pandemic, as shown in this Report. He has since graduated from his PhD program.