A PHILOSOPHY faculty member at the Faculty of Arts and Letters is set to take over as director of the UST Research Center for Culture, Arts, and Humanities (RCCAH) starting 2025.
Anton Heinrich Rennesland of the Department of Philosophy will replace Prof. Ma. Alexandra Chua, who had served as RCCAH director since 2020.
Chua will transition to the deanship of the Conservatory of Music, replacing Assoc. Prof. Antonio Africa.
Rennesland earned all of his three philosophy degrees from UST.
He completed his undergraduate degree in 2018, followed by his master’s degree in 2020 (summa cum laude) and doctorate degree in 2023 (magna cum laude).
Rennesland began teaching in 2018 at World Citi College’s senior high school before joining UST’s philosophy department in 2019, handling courses such as philosophical research, thesis writing, foreign language (German), among others.
He serves as managing editor of Kritike: An Online Journal of Philosophy, the official open-access journal of the UST Department of Philosophy, where he writes articles and book reviews.
Rennesland is a member of various philosophical associations, including the Philosophical Association of the Philippines, European Network of Japanese Philosophy, and the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society.
RCCAH was formally established in 2018 to serve as a hub for Thomasian scholars in architecture, communication and media, economics, fine arts and design, literature and culture, musicology, and philosophy.
It aims to produce new knowledge in these fields by “providing a venue to emergent research that locates the nation’s identity and consciousness in a transnational imaginary and within a burgeoning technology-propelled public sphere.”
