Essay History Humanities

The Meralco Empire: American Power, Electrification, and Development in the Philippines

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Pragyan Sharma
Student , Georgetown University
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Pragyan Sharma (He/They)
Student , Georgetown University

Pragyan is a junior majoring in Culture and Politics at Georgetown University in Qatar. He works as an Economics Peer Tutor at the Office of Academic Services, and also as a Research Assistant at the Energy Humanities Program, where he is currently developing an energy-themed board game. For his Laidlaw project, he is exploring the history of labor in the electricification of the Philippines. This project intersects energy history and colonial studies, exploring how US Colonialism shaped electricity during and after the US control of the Islands. 

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