Earl Hernandez

Education

Ateneo de Naga University in 2015 

MA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines - Diliman in 2022. 

Areas of Interest

Spanish colonialism during the early modern period

Profile

Earl John Cedo Hernandez is an anthropological archaeologist from Bicol, Philippines. He received his BA in Political Science from the Ateneo de Naga University in 2015 and MA in Anthropology from the University of the Philippines - Diliman in 2022. As a Bikolano anthropologist he is broadly interested in research involving conversations in the anthropology of religion, the archaeology of Spanish colonialism, and engaged museum programs. Before coming to UCLA, he is the curator of the Museo de Isarog at the Partido State University. Earl advocates for co-creation and co-curation programs working with colleagues, scholars, students, and community.

Since 2018 he has been working with the Bicol Archaeological Project, an interdisciplinary archaeological and heritage program aiming to understand indigenous/local responses to Spanish colonialism during the early modern period. At Cotsen Institute, he is interested in using remote sensing to understand human-environmental interactions, landscape and land-use changes during the Spanish colonization in Bicol and beyond.