Martin F. Manalansan IV is a professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Professor Manalansan is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006). He is editor/coeditor of four anthologies: Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora (New York University Press, 2016), Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America (Temple University Press, 2000), Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (New York University Press, 2002), and Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader (New York University Press, 2013). He has edited several journal special issues including a special issue of the International Migration Review on gender and migration and more recently, a special issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies entitled “Feeling Filipinos.” 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 the 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, the affective dimensions of Filipinx migrant labor, and Filipinx return migration.
