Michael D. Pante is an associate professor, Department of History, Ateneo de Manila University, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints.

He is the author of A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Philippines (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2019), which is based on his dissertation at Kyoto University, where he was a Ronpaku fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He has received fellowships from the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore; the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; the Asia Culture Center of the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism; and the Philippine Social Science Council. His forthcoming second book, The Impact of Martial Law on Philippine Education, will be published by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines in 2025.

His research focuses on urban and transportation history, critical pedagogy, and Southeast Asian studies. His essays have been published by the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, SOJOURN, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. He is a member of Tanggol Kasaysayan and Akademya at Bayan Kontra Disimpormasyon at Dayaan (ABKD).