Donna J. Amoroso

Donna J. Amoroso was born and raised in New Jersey. She received her BA degree in international affairs from Lafayette College before finishing her PhD at Cornell University, USA. She taught in Ohio and Tokyo, was editor of Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, ran the academic writing programme of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, and co-wrote State and Society in the Philippines with her husband, Patricio Abinales. She passed away in January 2011.