Especially to Vincenzo Coia, the instructor;

and the teaching assistants, some of whom I have not yet met;

and STAT 545 classmates!

My name is Teilhard Paradela. But please call me Ty. I am a doctoral candidate in History. My research is on mass media audiences in the Philippines. I examine how the emergence of social science surveys transformed the ways in which the local elites imagined the people.<

More about my research:

• I have lived in the following places:

• Cebu
• Manila
• Vancouver
• New York
• Amsterdam
• Helsinki

![In Madrid]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154495901370850&set=a.476354100849.264773.589970849&type=3&theater

One of my favourite movies:

![Far from Heaven]https://giphy.com/gifs/julianne-moore-goodbye-far-from-heaven-xFpmevbqHTZgQ