Biography
Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice is a Research Assistant Professor at the Division of Public Policy. His research interests broadly cover environmental history (with focus on animals, health, and disease ecology), the history of science, technology, and medicine (with focus on biomedicine, public health, and zoonoses), food studies and policy, and health-environmental humanities, with the Philippines as his geographical focus.
Prior to joining HKUST, he held lectureship positions at the University of Hong Kong and Ateneo de Manila University. He has taught courses on the global histories of animals, food and empire, Philippine history, modern Southeast Asia, and digital games. He holds a PhD in History from HKU in 2021, investigating the history of animals in medicine and health in the nineteenth- and the twentieth-century Philippines. He is the recipient of the Wang Gungwu Prize for Research Postgraduate Students by the University of Hong Kong (2022) and the prestigious Young Historian’s Prize 2022 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the Republic of the Philippines.
HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS
Ludovice, N.P. & Guiang, J. (forthcoming) “‘More Calories, More Protein, More Progress’: The Nutribun and the Politics of Nostalgia of the Marcos Regime.” Philippine Studies: Historical & Ethnographic Viewpoints
Delina, L., Fuerzas, I., Dulay, M. J., Ludovice, N.P., Tam, K. K., & Salamanca, A. (2025)“Affective relationships as nonmaterial capital assets in resilience building in the rice-terraced cultural landscapes of the Philippine Cordillera.” Applied Geography 175: 103631. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103631
Delina, L., Afable, S. B., Tam, K. K., Ludovice, N.P., Dharmiasih, W., & Salamanca, A. (forthcoming) “Climate Risks and Resilience in Southeast Asia’s Culturally Significant Ricescapes.” UNESCO Case Studies on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Actions.
Ludovice, N.P. (forthcoming) “Horses, Doping, and the Relationalities of Care at the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, 1969-1971.” Society & Animals. Special Issue: Interspecies Relationality.
Ludovice, N. P. P. (2025). “Dairying Dependence: Industrialization and Ecological Change During the Postwar Philippines.” Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food. Edited by Alyssa Paredes and Marvin Joseph Montefrio. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai’i Press.
Delina, L. Ludovice, N.P., Mori, A. & Henares, T. (2024) “From currents to controversies: Unveiling performances of and perceptions on China’s investments in the Philippine grid.” Energy Strategy Reviews 53: 101407. DOI: 10.1016/j.esr.2024.101407
Ludovice, N.P., Delina, L., & Perez, O. (2024) “Food Choice Determinants and Changes in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. DOI: 10.1177/10105395241237644
Velasquez, C., Urwin, J., Ludovice, N. P. P., Kauma, B., Tamang, S., & Porter, J. (2024). “Future Directions in Environmental History.” Routledge Handbook of Environmental History. Edited by Emily O’Gorman, Sandra Swart, William San Martin, and Mark Carey. London and New York: Routledge.
Ludovice, N. P. P. (2023). “Foreword: Dogs in the Philippines.” In Dogs in Philippine History. By Ian Christopher B. Alfonso. Manila: Philippine Historical Association, Project Saysay Inc., and Archivo 1984.
Delina, L., Ludovice, N. P. P., Gaviola, J., & Cagoco-Guiam, R. (2023). “Living with climate and state fragility in a “chaotic paradise:” Securitizing livelihoods in the Philippines’ Cotabato River Basin.” Climate Risk Management, 100558. Doi: 10.1016/j.crm.2023.100558
Ludovice, N. P. P. and Delina, L. (2023). “From concessions to competition: A journey through the evolution of the Philippine electric grid system, 1892-2021.” Electricity Journal 36 (7), 107319. Doi: 10.1016/j.tej.2023.107319
Ludovice, N. P. P. (2021). “The Ice Plant Cometh: The Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, Frozen Meat, and the Imperial Biodeterioration of American Manila, 1900-1935.” Global Food History 7(2), 115-139. Doi: 10.1080/20549547.2021.1921466
Ludovice, N. P. P. (2021). “COVID-19 as a Zoonotic Moment: Placing the Animals at the Forefront of Histories of Pandemics.” Working Papers on Critical Disaster Studies. Series I: Historical Responses to Covid-19, No. 2. Initiative for Critical Disaster Studies, New York University.
Ludovice, N. P. P. (2020). Review of Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia, edited by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson, and John Harley Warner. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 177-181. Doi: 10.1215/18752160-7498555
Ludovice, N. P. P. (2019). “The Carabao and the Encounter of the Law in Nineteenth-Century Philippines.” Society & Animals, 27(3), 307-26. Doi: 10.1163/15685306-12341557.
