DAMON L. WOODS grew up in Baguio City. After receiving his PhD in Southeast Asian History from the University of California, Los Angeles, he has been a lecturer at UCLA, the University of California, Irvine, and California State University, Long Beach, and has lectured at Universiti Brunei Darussalam and the University of the Philippines, Baguio. He is currently a visiting professor at the Center for International Studies at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Among the courses he has taught are Philippine History and Philippine Radical Tradition.