A UNIVERSITY of the Philippines Visayas assistant professor was given the Distinguished Dissertation Prize of the Taiwan Association for Sociology of Education.

Donne Jone Sodusta was recognized for his dissertation entitled “Contriving and Curating Indigeneity: Problematization of the Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples Education”.

Sodusta is a faculty member at the Division of Professional Education of the College of Arts and Sciences.

He earned his doctorate degree at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan through the Taiwan Elite University postgraduate scholarship.

“His areas of research and interests are in policies and practices in multicultural education issues and indigenous peoples’ education,” UPV said.

“He is currently teaching research and social sciences subjects to graduate students of the UPV Graduate School and the high school students of UP High School in Iloilo,” it added.