Specializes in the history of anthropology and historical anthropology. His writings on these subjects have been about the institutional and micro-histories of anthropology in the Philippines as a way to analyze the development of the anthropological discipline in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. He started his academic career in the University of the Philippines as a young historian but has gone multi-disciplinary which allowed him to explore intersections of history, culture, society and religion. He has a deep interest in popular devotion which was a topic for both his MA thesis and PhD dissertation. He is currently working along the lines of heritage, folklore and disaster from which he draw much of his applied research and engagements with the public.

He earned his BA History (cum laude), MA Archaeology and PhD Anthropology degrees from the University of the Philippines—Diliman. He served as Coordinator of the Folklore Studies Program of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy and spearheaded activities promoting the study of folklore using multi-disciplinary approaches. He was appointed Field School Director in Tiwi, Albay which led to the publication of the edited book, “Ethnographies of Disaster: the 2009 Anthropology Field School, Tiwi, Albay,” supported by the Aquinas University of Legazpi in 2011. He authored a Senior High School worktext in the social sciences in 2016.

History of Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Heritage, Folklore, Popular Devotion, Disaster Risk Management for Heritage Collections

Bicol, Bulacan, BARMM

• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2025). Pook, santo, tao: Girumdum ng nakaraang Kabikulan sa piyesta ng Nuestra Señora de Salvacion ng Tiwi, Albay. In V. C. Villan, M. R. L. A. Alfaro, & R. J. A. Asuncion (Eds.), Girumdum: Tradition at progreso sa Kabikulan at kapuluan (pp. 93–104). ADHIKA ng Pilipinas, Inc.; National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2024). Reconstituting identities in Bagong Silang, Caloocan City: Notes from an encounter with CFC–Gawad Kalinga villages. Aghamtao, 32, 109–124.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr., & Tatel, H. P. (2020). Kaparian, kapatiran, kasaysayan: Personal na salaysay ng pakikipag-ugnayan sa OMI—Binhi ng kolaborasyon ng pananaliksik sa Mindanao. TALAS: Interdisiplinaryong Journal sa Edukasyong Pangkultura, 5. National Commission for Culture and the Arts–Philippine Cultural Education Program.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2017). Tabi-tabi folkloradyo sa DZUP 1602: Salugpungan ng folklore, agham panlipunan, at Philippine studies sa pangmadlang komunikasyon. TALAS: An Interdisciplinary Journal in Cultural Education. National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2014). Anthropology and sociology at UP: Lessons from an academic union, 1914–1951. Philippine Sociological Review, 62.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2013, May). Hala bira! Cultural lessons from Philippine elections. University of the Philippines Halalan. http://halalan.up.edu.ph/index.php/viewpoints/by-professors/159-hala-bira-halalan-cultural-lessons-from-philippine-elections
• Tatel, C. P., Jr., & Navarro, A. (2012). Sa labas ng mga bahay/pinagtatrabahuhan: Mga espasyo ng mga migranteng Pinoy sa urbanisadong landskeyp ng Singapore, lalo na sa Lucky Plaza Mall. Dalumat: Multikultural at Multidisiplinaryong E-Journal sa Araling Filipino, 3(1–2).
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2011). The non-Western peoples as Filipinos: Mediating notions of “otherness” in photographs of the National Geographic Magazine of the early 20th century. In G. Matthews & S. Cheung (Eds.), Asian anthropology (Vol. 11). The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (Ed.). (2011). Ethnographies of disaster: The 2009 UP Anthropology Field School, Tiwi, Albay. Aquinas University of Legazpi.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2010). 90 years of anthropology at the University of the Philippines: Examining institutional history and academic dependency in a Southeast Asian university. In K. R. Sinha-Kerkhoff & S. F. Alatas (Eds.), Academic dependency in the social sciences: Structural reality and intellectual challenges. Manohar Publishers.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr., & Chua, M. C. (2009). Sa ibayo ng mga footnote: Tungo sa pagsasakasaysayan ng isyung Tasaday. Agham-Tao: Journal of the Ugnayang Agham-Tao, 17.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (2005). Ang usapin ng historical archaeology sa pag-aaral ng nakaraang Pilipino. LAGDA: Refereed Journal of the UP Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, 184–213.
• Tatel, C. P., Jr. (1998). Ang paghuhukay sa mga labi ng Porta Vaga: Isang kaso ng pagsasagawa ng dokyumentaryong arkeolohiya sa lungsod ng Cavite. Hukay, 1(1).