Neen is a social anthropologist doing engaged work with various Filipino communities. Her research, which employs qualitative methods such as countermapping and digital ethnography, reflects her interest in development and humanitarianism, urban anthropology, the anthropology of disaster and human rights, death studies, and the anthropology of affect and emotions. She finished her bachelor’s degree in Development Studies at the University of the Philippines Manila, and obtained her MA degree in Anthropology at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her MA thesis is a digital ethnography of death, grief, and mourning amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, she is an affiliate faculty of the UP CSSP Folklore Studies Program and the president of Ugnayang Pang-Aghamtao (UGAT – Anthropological Association of the Philippines).

Anthropology of Home, Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of Disaster, Death Studies, Development and Human Rights, Digital Ethnography, Counter mapping

South Cotabato, Rizal, Tarlac, Baguio City

• Bolata, E.J., Santiago, V.C., Sapalo, N.H., & Hernandez, J.F.C. (2024). Memoria: An Afterword. In F. Blumentritt (J.M. Marquez (translator), L. A. Gil (ed.)) Dictionary of Philippine Mythology / Diccionario mitológico de Filipinas (Third Edition). Vibal Foundation, Inc. [BOOK CHAPTER]
• Sapalo, N. H. (2023). Encountering death on Facebook: A digital ethnography of pandemic deaths and online mourning. Plaridel. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.52518/2023-01sapalo.
• Sapalo, N.H. (2023). Weaving through Pandemic Woes: T’boli Women Weavers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. In E. Tadem, B. Velasco, J. Sy, A. Aban, R. Dimalanta, H. Tabiola, R. Martinez (Eds.). University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies. [BOOK CHAPTER]
• Gaw, F., Bunquin, J.B., Cabbuag, S., Lanuza, J.M., Sapalo, N., & Yusoph, A. (2023). Political Economy of Covert Influence Operations in the 2022 Philippine Elections. Internews. https://internews.org/resource/political-economy-of-covert-influence-operationsin-the-2022-philippine-elections/ [COMMISSIONED WORK]
• Sapalo, N. H. (2022). Enfranchising Pandemic Grief: Stories of local responses and the reinvention of ritual amid COVID-19 deaths. Social Science Diliman, Volume 18, no. 1, pp. 1-30.
• Sapalo, N. H. (2021). Binabahang Tahanan: notions of home amidst disaster in a peri-urban relocation site. Social Science Diliman, Volume 17, no. 2, pp. 27-59.
• Baumann, L., Sharan, A., Gaillard, J. C., Dwyer, E., Dalisay, S. N., & Sapalo, N. (2021). Recognising the rights, concerns and strengths of people with diverse SOGIESC for inclusive disaster risk reduction policy and action (Policy Brief No. 4). Research Network on Disasters, Environment and Society. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d7c627396500531ab3e2634/t/60b463539a460450e26872af/1622434644368/Baumann%26al_PB_SOGIESCpolicyaction.pdf​ [POLICY BRIEF].
• Sapalo, N. H. (2021 September 13). Digital Grief: Mourning Covid-19 deaths on Facebook. Rappler. https://www.rappler.com/voices/imho/analysis-digital-grief-mourning-covid-19-deaths-facebook
• Sapalo, N. H. (2021 August). Ang Pangako: Salin ng The Sociological Imagination ni C. Wright Mills. Daluyan: Journal ng Wikang Filipino, Volume 26, no. 1, pp. 102-112.
• Sapalo, N. H. (2020). “Ayyew-ubbo vermiculture as an emerging practice in environmental sustainability and food security among indigenous women migrants in Cordillera.” In Pagsalin. Philippine Taskforce for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Baguio City.
• Sapalo, N. H. (2020 June 1). Who will look after lola during the pandemic? New Mandala. https://www.newmandala.org/who-will-look-after-lola-during-the-pandemic/
• Sapalo, N. H. (2019 December 10). Whose land is this? Constructing counter-narratives through maps. Global Ethnographic. https://globalethnographic.com/index.php/whose-land-is-this-constructing-counter-narratives-through-maps/