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Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., FRGS (October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924) was an American zoologist, public official, and writer on the Philippines. He was born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan (A.B., 1889). Worcester's involvement with the Philippines began in 1887 when he joined a scientific expedition to the region ...
The Philippine Commission was the name of two bodies, both appointed by the president of the United States, to assist with governing the Philippines.. The First Philippine Commission, also known as the Schurman Commission, was appointed by President William McKinley on January 20, 1899 as a recommendatory body.
The Schurman Commission, also known as the First Philippine Commission, was established by United States President William McKinley on January 20, 1899, and tasked to study the situation in the Philippines and make recommendations on how the U.S. should proceed after the sovereignty of the Philippines was ceded to the U.S. by Spain on December ...
On January 23, 1909, the newspaper was sued for libel by Dean Conant Worcester, then-secretary of the interior of the Insular Government of the Philippines. [5] [3]: 426 Worcester felt he was alluded to by the description of someone who had "the characteristics of the vulture, the owl and the vampire."
The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3099-8. Hicks, Nigel (2005). This is the Philippines. New Holland Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84537-246-0. Rice, Mark (2014). Dean Worcester's Fantasy Islands: Photography, Film, and the Colonial Philippines. University of Michigan Press.
He was professor of English literature, political economy and psychology at Acadia College from 1880 to 1882, [7] of metaphysics and English literature at Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1882–86, [8] [7] [9] and the Sage professor of philosophy (Sage professor) at Cornell University from 1886 to 1892, [6] and Dean of the Sage School of Philosophy from 1891 to 1892, during which ...
The Taft Commission, also known as the Second Philippine Commission (Filipino: Ikalawang Komisyon ng Pilipinas), was established by United States President William McKinley on March 16, 1900, following the recommendations of the First Philippine Commission, using presidential war powers while the U.S. was engaged in the Philippine–American War.
Dean Worcester, American zoologist turned Secretary of the Interior in the Philippines, produced this sequence of portraits to generate the fantasy of radical transformation from a “savage” to "civilized." Critics claim that this practice was to justify colonial rule.