Studies of US empire in the Philippines have undergone something of a renaissance over the past two decades with the emergence of a multi-disciplinary body of scholarship dedicated to investigating the colonial encounter there. While these works have undoubtedly enriched our understandings of the topic, scholarship on US rule in the Philippines still often retains an exceptionalist flavour, isolating it from generative global resonances. Drawing on the explicitly comparative and transimperial studies of Julian Go and Anne L. Foster, A.G Hopkins, and Kristin L. Hoganson and Jay Sexton, this panel encourages us to shift our focus and engage U.S imperialism from multiple perspectives rather than from a single vantage-point ultimately anchored in America itself. The papers cover a range of subjects in political, social and cultural history, including pan-Asian networks, transimperialism, gender and carceral labor, and local resistance and colonial violence, to explore what happens when we ‘provincialize’ America in this history? What happens when we prioritise different voices and different experiences? By asking different questions, and deploying a range of varied methodologies, the aim of this panel is to reframe American imperialism in the Philippines within an interdisciplinary and genuinely global comparative context.