Vicente RafaelVincente L. Rafael is the Giovanni and Anne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language Amid Wars of Translation (Duke University Press, 2016), Th Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines (Duke University Press, 2005), and several other books. Read More Read Less