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I am a Buhi’nən from the Bikol region in what has been colonially constructed as ‘the Philippines’. I am a political scientist by training, with a PhD from Central European University. I am on the 2024-25 academic job market.

This spring semester, I am a Teaching Fellow at Parami University, a private not-for-profit online higher education institution founded in Burma/Myanmar in 2017 but licensed today in the United States. In 2024, I stayed as a Global Teaching Fellow at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I was also affiliated as a Visiting Research Fellow at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals in Spain from 2021 to 2025.

My research critiques the European Union’s entanglements as a global (trade) power. More broadly, I am interested in the politics of knowledge, decolonial thought and praxis, interpretive methodologies and methods, critical policy studies, Southeast Asia–EU relations, the Philippines’ international relations, and the concept of ‘global souths’. My work has been supported by the Open Society University Network, University Association for Contemporary European Studies, and Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa.

In a past life, I spent six years doing policy and advocacy work at the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines and serving as EU outreach consultant for a European Commission-funded project on the internationalisation of small and medium enterprises.

Outside the ivory tower, I co-organise for South/South Movement and dabble in analogue photography.

I am open to research, writing, editorial and project-based commissions. See some of my work here.

Email: antonio@antonioalcazar.eu

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