Manalansan, Martin F.  IV

DR. MARTIN F. MANALANSAN IV

Martin F. Manalansan IV is the Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He previously taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of the Philippines, New York University, New School University, and the City University of New York.  He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006). His forthcoming book is entitled Queer Dwellings: Mess, Mesh, Measure. 

He is editor/co-editor of five anthologies namely,  Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora (New York University Press, 2016), Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple University Press, 2000) and Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002), Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (New York University Press, 2013) and Q & A: Voices from Queer Asian North America (Temple University Press, 2021) He has edited several journal special issues which include an International Migration Review volume on gender and migration, an issue of Journal of Asian American Studies entitled “Feeling Filipinos” and a recent issue of Alon: The Journal for Filipino  American and Diasporic Studies on new Filipino American scholarship on martial law in the Philippines. He has published in numerous journals including GLQ, Antipode, Cultural Anthropology,  Positions: East Asian Cultural Critique, and Radical History among others.  Among his many awards are the Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association in 2003, the Excellence in Mentorship Award in 2013 from Association of Asian American Studies, the Richard Yarborough Mentoring Prize in 2016 from the American Studies Association and the Crompton-Noll Award for the best LGBTQ essay in 2016 from the Modern Language Association. 

His current book projects include the ethical and embodied dimensions of the lives and struggles of undocumented queer immigrants, Asian American immigrant culinary cultures, affect and nationalism, urban studies, and the politics of decolonizing social science in the Global South. Before going back to academia, he worked for 10 years in AIDS/HIV research, program evaluation and prevention education at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS both in New York City.