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Eric S. Casino

P.O. Box 29176
Honolulu, Hawaii 96820

Liyangs Heights
Cagayan De Oro City
Philippines

Voicemail 1(877) 286-7712
Tel. (808) 778-6362
Email: ecasino@jkagroup.com

Provide consulting services in education, business, cross-cultural training, and language learning programs.  Area Studies specialization: Philippines and Southeast Asia.

Summary
More than 30 years as a social anthropologist actively engaged in university lecturing, applied research, and consulting with governments and corporations in the fields of education, project evaluation, culture-based marketing, social impact assessment, and cross-cultural management.

Ph.D. Social Anthropology (Sydney 1973)
M.A. Philosophy (Loyola House of Studies 1960)

Nine (9) years training as a professional educator in the Jesuit Order

Research and Administrative Experience

• Conducted social impact assessment for a copper mining project in Southern Mindanao, for WMC/Philippines (1997-98)
• Researched and compiled the first Hawaii Directory of Education, Training and Research, for the Marketing Division, Department of Business and Economic Development, State of Hawaii (1990).
• Administered a Bilingual Education Program for the Department of Education, State of Hawaii (1985).
• Carried out collaborative research on Asia-Pacific modernization programs at the East-West Center (1977-1981).
• Developed executive training programs curriculum for the Mindanao Executive Development Academy, under the joint auspices of the University of the Philippines and Mindanao State University (1975).
• Primary consultant, Social Studies Curriculum Planning, International School, Makati (1974-75)

• The World Bank (Philippine Project)
• Western Mining Corporation (Mindanao, Philippines)
• American Agency for International Development (Clark Air Force Base)
• HEI Industries (Philippines, Guam)
• Academia Language School (Language training in Tagalog, Tausug)

Experience in Education and Training

High School

Three (3) years teaching English, Latin, and Religious Studies in a Jesuit high school

Two (2) years as Teaching Fellow at Sydney University, conducting undergraduate tutorials on comparative Asian and Pacific ethnographies

Over twenty (20) years teaching a variety of courses in anthropology and related social science fields -- geography,  cross-cultural communication, race and ethnic relations, and management science -- as a visiting professor in the following universities:

• University of Sydney                                
• University of Hawaii
• University of California Santa Cruz
• University of the Philippines
• Hawaii Pacific University
• Thunderbird Management School (Arizona)
• Asian Institute of Management -- AIM (Manila)
• Japan-America Institute of Management Science (Honolulu)

• Outstanding Alumnus, Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) (2004)
• “Balik-Scientist” Award (University of the Philippines) (1985-86)
• Participant, Max Planck International Conference on Legal Pluralism, co-editor of proceedings (1986)
• Australian National University Fellowship (1986)

• Agricultural Development Council (Rockefeller) Scholarship (1968-69)
• Greenwell Bequest Scholarship (Sydney University, 1969-70)
• Asian Scholar in Residence, Fulbright-Hays fellowship (University of California, Santa Cruz, 1978)

Languages

Fluent – English, Tagalog, Cebuano Visayan, Mapun Samal

Grammatical knowledge – Tausug, Yakan, Bahasa Indonesia
Reading – Latin, Spanish, French, Chavacano

References (On request)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Published seven (7) books and over 20 articles relating to anthropological, historical, and development topics in the Asia-Pacific region (complete list available on request).  Sample of publications:

1. Mindanao Statecraft and Ecology.  Cotabato City: Notre Dame of Cotabato University Press (2000).

2. “Person-centered and State-centered Social Security in Southeast Asia,” in Between Kinship and the State.  Social Security and Law in Developing Countries. Eds.  Benda-Beckman et al.  Dordrecht-Holland: Foris Publications (1988).

3. “The Moros of the Philippines: Levels of Interethnic Conflict,” in Inter-Ethnic Conflict: Myth and Reality, eds. Jerry Boucher and Dan Landis.  New York: Sage Publishing Co. (1986).

4. “The Parameters of Ethnicity Research,” in Introduction to Ethnicity. Intercocta Glossary, ed. Fred Riggs.  Unesco: International Conceptual Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences (1986).

4. The Philippines – Lands and Peoples, A Cultural Geography, in The Filipino Nation.  Vol. 2 of a three-volume series.  New York: Grolier International (1982).

6. “Consultants and Competence in Development and Cross-Cultural Programs,” in Handbook of Intercultural Training, vol. 2, eds. Dan Landis and Richard Brislin.  New York: Pergamon Press (1981).

7. MACRO/S: Philippine experiment in multi-cultural social studies,” Culture Learning Institute Report 5.2 (January 19978) 9-12

8. “Folk-Islam in the Life Cycle of the Jama Mapun,” Philippine Sociological Review 15, 1-2 (January-April 1967) 34-47