Martin F. Manalansan IV

Martin F. Manalansan IV is associate professor of anthropology and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He presently serves as co-chair of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists and board member of the Association for Feminist Anthropology. He is also the Social Science Review Editor for GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies. His book, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora was published by Duke University Press in 2003 and was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists in 2003. His publications include three edited collections: Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Philadelphia Temple University Press, 2000) which was awarded the 2001 Cultural Studies Book Prize by the Association for Asian American Studies, (with Arnaldo Cruz-Malave) Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002), and (with Katharine Donato, Donna Gabbacia, Jennifer Holdaway and Patricia Pessar) a special issue of the International Migration Review (2006) entitled “Gender and Migration Revisited.” His essays have appeared in journals such as Social Text, positions: east asia cultures critique, and GLQ. His current projects include Manila’s urban modernity, return migration to the Philippines and the cultural politics of space, food, and olfaction in Asian American immigrant communities of New York City.