Ted
Jojola, Ph.D., is a Professor of Planning at the
School of Architecture and Planning at the
University of New Mexico. His Ph.D. dissertation
included historical research on the Spanish and
American Territorial government impacts upon the
Mountain Province in the Philippines and he has
looked extensively at the similarities of US
Federal Indian policies and those of the
National Minorities in the Philippines.
Currently, he is working on a video project
entitled “Just Like Us: The Bataan Legacy in New
Mexico” and serves as an Advisory Board Member
of the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Foundation of
New Mexico, Inc. He lives on the Isleta Pueblo
Reservation with his Filipina wife, Dely. His
father-in-law, Alejandro Alcántara, is a Bataan
Death March survivor of the USAFFE forces in the
Philippines.
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