Floro C. Quibuyen has a multidisciplinary background and professional experience (BA Philosophy, University of the Philippines-Diliman; MA Anthropology and PhD Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa). Among his works are A Nation Aborted: Rizal, American Hegemony and Philippine Nationalism (1999, 2008, Ateneo de Manila University Press) and “and woman will prevail over man:” Symbolic Sexual Inversion and Counter-hegemonic discourse in Mt. Banahaw: The case of the Iglesia del Ciudad Mistica de Dios (Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990). He has taught a total of 29 various undergraduate and graduate courses across the disciplines—Philippine history, anthropology, philosophy and logic, art studies and the cinema, political science, filmmaking and photography—at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of the Philippines-Diliman, University of Santo Tomas-Manila, and St. Scholastica’s College, Manila. He has worked as TV director and has produced, written and directed video documentaries, among them "Stars across a sea of time...the Hokulea Lives on" (on Polynesian voyaging and navigation). His 3-act play, “The Story of Cabesang Tales” (an adaptation from Rizal’s novels Noli me tangere and El Filibusterismo), was staged on September 2017 at the Blacktown Arts Center in Sydney, Australia. Upon retiring from the Asian Center, University of the Philippines, Quibuyen founded the Sydney-based Research Institute for Sustainable Alternatives (RISAL).