Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
9-2025
Abstract
This paper will examine the career trajectories of American expatriate scientists working for the insular Bureau of Science in the Philippines from the period 1912 until 1913 (the year Woodrow Wilson assumed the US presidency). Drawing on their annual reports, scientific publications, and archived correspondence, I will focus on how, beyond the utilitarian economic extractivist mandate of these scientists’ work, they were also able to use inter-imperial networks to help elevate US science beyond applied agriculture, ultimately constituting a more epistemic form of extractivism.
Recommended Citation
Azada-Palacios, R. (2026). Imperial roots of the American research university. Archium Ateneo. https://archium.ateneo.edu/
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