Bernard James Remollino
Bernard is a PhD Candidate in the United States field researching the history of Filipino popular culture, labor, and migration in California during the twentieth century.
Bernard's dissertation examines how boxing, tattooing, foodways, and workplace organizing informed transpacific social imaginations, political mobilizations, and diasporic community survival strategies in urban and rural spaces between 1920 and 1941.
Field of Study
Subfield
Filipino American History; Histories of Philippine diaspora; Transpacific cultural imaginaries
Research
Grants and Awards
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, Leslie W. and Linda L. Koepplin Graduate Fellowship in U.S. Immigrant History, Melvin Futterman Graduate Fellowship in American History, Matilda Morrison Miller Award in Western Historical Writing
Conference Presentations
“Scrapping into a Knot: How Filipino Boxers and Transpacific Fans Troubled Interwar Racial Regimes in California, 1920 – 1941.” To be presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2020 (Postponed due to COVID-19).
“Impossible to Breathe, Subukan Mo: Radical Imaginations in the Popular Culture of Filipino Migration and Labor in California, 1920–1941.” To be presented at the 113th Annual Conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Portland State University, August 2020 (Postponed due to COVID-19).
“Fringe Contenders: Filipino Boxers, Transient Fandom, and Militant Cultural Infrastructures, 1920 – 1941.” Presented at the Center for Philippine Studies Conference, University of Hawaii, Mānoa, November 2019.
“Fringe Contenders: Filipino Migrant Boxers and Transient Militancy, 1920 – 1941.” Presented at the 21st Annual History Graduate Symposium, California State University, Fresno, April 2019.
“Fringe Contenders: Filipino Boxers and the Construction of Migrant Militancy, 1900- 1935.” Presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Cultural History, Columbia University, New York City, September 2018.
Advisors
Eric Avila (Co-chair, UCLA Dept. of History, UCLA Dept. of Chicana & Chicano Studies), Toby Higbie (Co-chair, UCLA Dept. of History, UCLA Labor & Workplace Studies), Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns (UCLA Dept. of Asian American Studies), George Lipsitz (UCSB Dept. of Black Studies)
Degrees
B.A. History from UC Berkeley, M.A. History from UCLA