Curriculum vitae

MARTIN F. MANALANSAN IV
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
109 Davenport Hall
607 South Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: (217) 244-3500

Fax: (217) 244-3490
Email: manalans@uiuc.edu

PRESENT POSITION:
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Core faculty: Asian American Studies Program
Affiliate Appointments:
Gender and Womens Studies Program
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
International Studies Program and Global Studies Initiative
EDUCATION:
1981

A.B. Philosophy magna cum laude, University of the Philippines

1987

M.A. Anthropology, Syracuse University

1989

M.A. Social Anthropology, University of Rochester

1997

Ph.D. Social Anthropology, University of Rochester

Dissertation: Remapping Frontiers: The Lives of Filipino Gay Men in New York City
Thomas Gibson, Chair

PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
2003

Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora. Durham: Duke University Press
(Philippine edition published 2006. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press).
Ruth Benedict Prize, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, 2003.
Honorable Mention, Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Cultural
Studies, 2005

Books and Journal Special Issue Edited:

2006

(co-edited with Katharine Donato , Donna Gabbacia, Jennifer Holdaway, and Patricia
Pessar) Gender and Migration Revisited Special issue of International Migration
Review 40(1)

2002

(co-edited with Arnaldo Cruz-Malave) Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the

Afterlife of Colonialism. New York: New York University Press

2000

Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America. Philadelphia: Temple

University Press.
Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Cultural Studies, 2001

Essays, Articles, and Chapters:

Under Review Empire of Food: Queens and the Majesty of Ethnic Cuisine. Tastes of New York. In J.
Deutch and A. Lawson (eds.). Columbia University Press.
Homophobia at Gay Central. In Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across time and
space. David Murray (ed.) Durham: Duke University Press.
Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. The LGBT Studies Reader. G. Haggerty
and M. McGarry (eds.) New York: Blackwell Publishing.
In press

Wayward Erotics: Mediating Queer Diasporic Return in Media, Transnationalism, and

Asian Erotics. Purnima Mankekar and Louisa Schein (eds.). Durham: Duke University
Press.

2007

Cooking up the Senses: A Critical Embodied Approach to the Study of Food

and Asian American Television Audiences. In Alien Encounters: Asian Americans in
Popular Culture. Thuy Linh Thu and Mimi Nguyen (eds.) Durham: Duke University
Press. 179-193.
Colonizing Time and Space: Race and Romance in Brokeback Mountain. GLQ: A
Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies.13(1): 97-100.

2006

Immigrant Domesticity and the Politics of Olfaction in the Global City. In The
Smell Reader. Jim Drobnick (ed.) New York: Berg. 41-52
A Glass Half Full? Gender in Migration Studies: Introduction. (co-authored with
Katharine Donato , Donna Gabbacia, Jennifer Holdaway, and Patricia Pessar)
International Migration Review. 40(1): 3-26.
Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender in Migration Studies. International
Migration Review 40(1): 224-249

Commentary on Michael Peletz Transgenderism and Gender Pluralism in Southeast Asia

since early modern times. Current Anthropology 47 (20) 329-330
2005

Race, Violence and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City Social Text.
84-85:141-156.
Migrancy, Modernity, Mobility In Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship and
Border Crossings.. Eithne Luibheid and Lionel Cantu (eds.) Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press. 146-160.
Relocating Cultural Expressions: Ethnography and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in
the Work of Edward Bruner. Anthropology and Humanism. 30(2): 179-186
A Gay World Make-Over? Towards an Asian American Queer Critique. In Beyond a
Critical Mass: New Directions in Asian American Studies. Kent Ono (ed.). New York:
Blackwell Publishing. 98-110

2004

Prairiescapes: Mapping Food, Loss and Longing Massachusetts Review. 45(3):

361-365
Anthropology. Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in
America. New York: Scribner Thomson Gale. 63-67

2002

A Queer Itinerary: Deviant Excursions into Modernities.

In Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology. William Leap and
Ellen Lewin (eds) Urbana: University of Illinois Press.246-263.

2001

Biyuti in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship and Survival among Filipinos in the
U.S. In Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora. Karen Shimakawa and
Kandice Chuh (eds.) Durham: Duke University Press. 153-171.

2000

Introduction. The Ethnography of Asian America: Notes Towards A Thick Description.

In M. Manalansan (ed.). Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1-13.
Diasporic Deviants/Divas: How Filipino Gay Transmigrants Play with the world. In
Queer Diasporas. Cindy Patton and Benigno Sanchez Eppler (eds.) Durham: Duke
University Press. 183-203.

1999

Land of the Mourning: AIDS, Memory and Community in the Filipino Diaspora. In
Fil-Am: Filipino American Experience. Alfredo Yuson (ed.) Manila: Publico, Inc. 217218.

1997

In the Frontiers of Narrative: Mapping Filipino Gay Mens Lives in the

U.S. In Filipino Americans. Maria P.P. Root (ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage.
247-256.

1996

Performing Filipino Gay Experiences in America: Linguistic Strategies

in a Transnational Context. In Beyond the Lavender Lexicon: Authenticity, Imagination
and Appropriation in Lesbian and Gay Language. William Leap (ed.) New York: Gordon
and Breach. 249-266.

Dissecting Desire: Symbolic Domination and Strategies of Resistance Among Filipino

Gay Men. In Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies. G. Okihiro
et.al (eds.) Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press. 291-300.
Double Minorities: Latino, Black, and Asian Men who have sex with Men. In Ritch
Savin Williams and Kenneth Cohen (eds.). The Lives of Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals:
Developmental, Clinical and Cultural Issues. Fort Worth: Harcourt, Brace & Co. 393415.
Speaking of AIDS: Language and the Filipino Gay Experience in America. In
Discrepant Histories: Translocal Essays in Philippine Cultures. Vicente Rafael (ed.).
Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (published simultaneously in Manila: Anvil
Press). 193-220.
1995

In the Shadows of Stonewall: Examining Gay Transnational Politics and the Diasporic
Dilemma. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 2-4 :425-38 (Revised version in
1997. The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital. L. Lowe and D. Lloyd (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press. Republished in 2003. Theorizing Diaspora. A. Mannur
and J. Braziel (eds.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing 207-227))

1994

Disorienting the Body: Locating Symbolic Resistance among Filipino

Gay Men. Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique. 2(1): 73-90.
Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York. Amerasia 20(1):59-73.
(Republished in 1996. Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of Gay and Lesbian
Experience. Russell Leong (ed.) New York: Routledge. Republished in 2000.
Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Min Zhou and James V.
Gatewood (eds.) New York: New York University Press)

1993

(Re)locating the Gay Filipino: Resistance, Postcolonialism and Identity. Journal of

Homosexuality. 26 (2/3): 53-73. (published simultaneously in Critical Essays: Gay and
Lesbian Writers of Color. Emmanuel Nelson (ed.) Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.)

Book Reviews:
Submitted

Review of Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan. Memories of Philippine Kitchens.

Gastronomica.

2004

Review of Allen Weiss. Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the
Sublime. Contemporary French Civilizations. XXVIII(1): 152-154.

2002

Review of Eric Wat. The Making of a Gay Asian Community and Quang Bao and Hanya
Yanagihara. Take Out Journal of Asian American Studies. 5(2): 182-185

2002

Review of E. San Juan. From Exile to Diaspora Versions of the Filipino Experience in
the U.S. Journal of American Ethnic History. 21(3):

2001

Review of Gordon Mathews. Global Culture/Individual Identity .Journal of Asian

Studies. 60(4): 1134-1136.

2001

Review of William Leap (ed.). Public Sex, Gay Space. American Ethnologist. 28(2): 476477

1999

Review of D. Eng and A. Hom (ed.) Q & A: Queer in Asian American Journal of Asian
American Studies. 2 (2): 215-217.

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:

Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, UIUC Curriculum Enhancement Grant ($5000)
Center for Advanced Study Grant for Judith Halberstam visiting lecture ($2000)
Honorable Mention, Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Cultural Studies 2005 for
Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora.
Faculty Fellowship, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, UIUC, 2004 (semester leave)
Amy Ling Memorial Research Grant, Asian American Studies Program, UIUC, 2004 ($5000)
Mellon Grants for the State of the Art Conference Grant Future of Food Studies and Senior
Visiting Scholar (Sidney Mintz) UIUC, 2004 ($31,000)
Ruth Benedict Prize, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, 2003 for Global Divas: Filipino Gay
Men in the Diaspora.
Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Cultural Studies, 2000 for Cultural Compass:
Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America.
Course Development Grant, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, UIUC, 2003 (summer salary)
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society Faculty Research Grant, UIUC, 2002 (semester leave)
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, UIUC Faculty Research Grant 2002 ($5000)
Sally and James Hagan Teaching Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Deans Teaching
Fellowship Program, UIUC, LAS 2001-2002
Asian American Studies Program Faculty Research Grant, 2001($5000)
College Research Board Grants UIUC, 1999-2000 (total: $21,000)
Martin Duberman Fellowship. City University of New York Graduate Center, 1998 ($7000)
Kenneth W. Payne Prize, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, 1992
University of Rochester Graduate Travel Grant, 1990
University Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1987-1990

Lewis Henry Morgan Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1987-1990

Presidential Honors Pin, University of the Philippines, 1981
University Scholar, University of the Philippines, 1978-1981

RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS:
Sociocultural anthropology, performance, sexuality and gender, race and ethnicity, immigration and
globalization, cities and modernity, senses and embodiment, food and culture, critical theory, Filipino
diaspora, Asian Americans, Southeast Asia, Philippines.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping
This book project is a multi-disciplinary analysis of race and queer sexuality through social struggles
around urban/rural space, immigration, neoliberal cultural politics, and coalitional activism.
Utilizing love as a critical and political concept from feminist and queer studies, this project aims
towards a nuanced articulation of the queer present and future(s).
Altered Tastes: Asian America and Beyond a Palatable Multiculturalism
This project focuses on culinary practices and politics of the senses among Asian immigrants in the U.S.
particularly in the ways food intersect with nostalgic imaginings of home and the making of race through
olfaction and taste. This research also examines Asian immigrants engagement with mass media
representation of Asian ethnic foods and the current fad of Asian fusion cuisine.
Engineered Scentiments: Smell Technologies and the Cultural Politics of Modern Urban Life.
This project explores the connection between emergent technologies that market new aroma products and
racially motivated city legislations such as the quality of life campaign in New York City that pivot
around olfaction and non-visual sensory fuses. Smell indexes a specific form of urban civility, modern
style, citizenship, and selfhood. This work argues that not only is smell a marker of modernity, it is also
the discursive node for marginalizing, policing and criminalizing racialized communities that creates
archives of feelings and sentiments that reinforce the status quo while at the same time providing avenues
for its resistance. It locates these disciplinary practices within the class and race inflected ideologies of
neoliberal political and cultural institutions.
Elusive Homecomings: Filipino Return Migration in the Twenty-First Century.
This is an ethnographic study of Filipinos who have gone back to the Philippines after various periods of
migrancy in various parts of the world. It focuses on the experiences of various groups who have
returned for various reasons including retirement, new business ventures or the search for ethnic roots.
This project also examines various discursive formations that produce discrepant articulations of
diasporic return as mediated by television, the internet, cinema, fiction, drama and journalism.
TEACHING:
Associate Professor of Anthropology (with tenure)
Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005-Present

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999-2005
Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies & Fellow of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program, New York University, New York, NY, 1998-1999.
Instructor of Asian American Studies
Hunter College, City University of New York, 1999
Instructor
Freshman Seminars, Eugene Lang College, New School University, 1998-1999
Visiting Instructor of American Studies
American Studies Program, Wesleyan University, 1997
Teaching Assistant
Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, 1989-1990
Instructor
Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester, Summer, 1989
Teaching Assistant
Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University, 1984-1986
Instructor
Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines, 1983-1984.
Instructor
Department of Philosophy, Sts Scholasticas College, Manila, Philippines, 1982
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT:
Coordinator of Program Evaluation/Research, Gay Mens Health Crisis, Inc.
129 West 20th St., New York, NY 10011. 1990-1995
Director of Education, Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
275 Seventh Avenue, 12th floor, New York, NY 10001. 1996-1998
COURSES TAUGHT:
Lower division courses:
Introduction to Asian American Studies; Food and Asian American Cultures; Culture and Society;
Ethnography of Contemporary Asian America; Food, Culture and Society; Introduction to Cultural
Anthropology; Asians in the United States; Introduction to Social Anthropology
Upper division and graduate courses:

Medical Anthropology; Race, Immigration, Cities; Asian/Pacific American Community Studies: Theories
and Practices; Filipino Americans: Cultural and Historical Locations; Multiethnic New York City: A
Study of an Asian-Latino Neighborhood; Human Sexuality: An Anthropological Perspective; Filipino
Americans Beyond Empire and Diaspora; Peoples of Southeast Asia and Oceania; Sex and Culture;
Queer Globalizations: Race, Sex and Nation; Sex, Love and Globalization; Globalization and Asian
Diasporas; Eating The Other: Food, Bodies and Difference.
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2007
Invited Presentation. Escape from Domesticity: Queering the Chain of Care Paradigm. Scholars and
Feminist Conference XXXII: Fashioning Citizenship: Gender and Migration. Barnard College. March
23.
Invited Lecture. Elusive Homecomings: Embodying Return Migration to the Philippines. Center
University of Texas at Austin. March 19.
Invited Presentation. Elusive Homecomings: Embodying Return Migration to the Philippines.
Refracting Pacific Canada Conference. University of British Columbia. March 16.
Invited Lecture. Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. Department of Women and Gender
Studies. Macalester College. February 23.
Invited Lecture Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. Departments of Anthropology and
Womens Studies. Carleton College, February 22.
2006
Keynote Address. Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. East of California Asian American
Studies Conference. Ohio State University. November 2.
Invited Presentation. The Homecoming Body: Race and Sex in Filipino Return Migration. Migrations
Studies Colloquium, Michigan State University, November 1.
Invited Lecture. Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. Department of Anthropology and CrossCultural Center. University of California, Irvine. October 20.
Invited Lecture. The Biyuti and Drama of Everyday Life. Department of Asian and Asian American
Studies. California State University, Long Beach. October 19
Invited Lecture. Love as Politics: War Efforts in Queer Times. Critical Constellations Lecture Series,
Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California. October 17
Invited Lecture. On Global Divas Center for the Study of Genders and Sexuality. California State
University, Los Angeles. October 16.
Invited Lecture. Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. Department of Asian American Studies,
San Francisco State University. October 18.

Invited presentation. Citizenship and Sexuality. Fordham Law Centennial Conference New
Dimensions of Citizenship. Fordham University School of Law. September 29-30.
Keynote Address. Southeast Asian Circuits: Remapping Area and Ethnic Studies in the 21 st Century.
Center for Southeast Asian Studies Faculty Development Seminar. Northern Illinois University. June 2
Invited presentation. On Queer Globalizations CLAGS AT 15: Fifteen Years of Fostering LGBTQ
Studies. Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. City University of New York Graduate Center. May 12.
Invited Lecture. Homecoming Spectacles: The Politics of the Body in Filipino Return Migration.
Center for Southeast Asian Studies Brownbag Lecture Series. Northern Illinois University. April 21.
Keynote Address. Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. American Studies Graduate Student
Conference. Purdue University, March 30.
Invited lecture. Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. Decolonizing Race, Gender and
Sexuality Speakers Series. Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. March 16.
Invited presentation. Philippine Migration to the U.S.: Routes and Reflections. Conference on
Immigrants and Southeast Asia: National Perspectives on the Transnational Flow of People. University
of Chicago. February 24.
Invited lecture. Queer Cultural Politics Harpur College Deans Workshop on the Projects of Queer
Studies, Race, Pedagogy and Social Theory and the Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University
- State University of New York. February 16.
Invited lecture. Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping. Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public
Policy and Civic Leadership. Dartmouth College, February 9.
2005
Invited presentation. Asian American Identity and Fusion Cuisine. Chicago Humanities Festival,
November 13.
Invited lecture, Race, Space and the Neoliberal City. Asian American Studies Center, University of
Illinois Chicago, November 7.
Invited lecture. Whose Queer Eye? LGBTQ Politics in the Age of War and Shopping. LGBT Center and
the Asian American Center, Tufts University. October 27.
Invited lecture. Race, Queer Space and the Neoliberal City. Department of Anthropology. Northwestern
University. October 6.
Invited presentation. Race and Sex in Filipino Return Migration. Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic
Return Migrants in Comparative Perspective. Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of
California, San Diego. May 21.
Invited presentation, On Speaking Straight: Queering Translation and Outsourcing English in the
Filipino Diaspora. Translating America to Itself Conference. University of California, Irvine, May 13.

Invited lecture. Queers, Race and the Neoliberal City. 3 rd Annual Lecture Series in Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual and Transgender Studies. University of Maryland. April 14.
Invited lecture: Whose Queer Eye: The Search for Race and Queerness in the Neoliberal City My Name
is My Own lecture series on Queerness, Race and Identity. Comparative American Studies Program.
Oberlin College, April 12.
Invited lecture: On Global Divas University of New Hampshire. Womens Studies Program. March 30.
Invited lecture. Race, Space and Queerness in the Neoliberal City Department of Asian American
Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 8.
Invited lecture. The Normal Queer: Race and Space in the Neoliberal City. Department of Filipino,
Ateneo de Manila University Katipunan Lecture Series. February 11.
Invited lecture. Homonormativity: Queer Politics and Neoliberalism. Department of Anthropology and
the Center for International Studies, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the
Philippines, February 7.
Invited lecture. Whose Queer Eye? Queer Theory Confronts Neoliberalism. University of the
Philippines Film Institute, February 4
2004
Invited lecture. Fenced-out Lives: Race, Violence and Neoliberal Politics Freeman Initiative for
Asian/Asian American Studies, Freeman Center, Wesleyan University, November 1
Invited lecture. Spatial Politics, Violence and Homonormativity in New York City. Obermann Center
for Advanced Studies, Department of Anthropology and Department of Womens Studies, University of
Iowa. October 15
Invited lecture. Queer Meccas and Plush Condos: Violence and Race in the Global City. Center for the
Study of Sexual Cultures and Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. September
5
Invited presentation. Queer Race and Class. Queer Matters Conference, Kings College, London, May
28.
Invited lecture, Race, Violence and Neoliberal Spatial Politics in the Global City. Race, Sexuality and
the Transnational: A Summer Research Institute, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, May 21-22
Invited Roundtable Presentation, Between Activism and the Academy. A Night of Queeries: Practicing
Theory and Theorizing Practice. University of California, San Diego, April 30.
Invited lecture, Whose Queer Eye?: An Asian American Critique. Asian American Studies Center,
University of California, Los Angeles, April 29
Invited lecture, On Global Divas Multi-cultural Center, University of California, Irvine, April 28.
Invited lecture, Food and Fusion : Against a Palatable Multiculturalism. Centre for the Study of the
United States, University of Toronto, March 18-20

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2003
Invited lecture, A World Make-Over: An Asian American Queer Critique. Asian American Studies
Program, Cornell University. October 21.
Invited lecture. Everyday Life in the Filipino Queer Diaspora. Institute of Asian and Asian American
Studies. Duke University. October 9.
Invited lecture, Intimacy and Everyday life. Recasting Asian/America Lecture Series, Simpson
Humanities Center, University of Washington, May 19.
Invited lecture, Queer Asian America. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Northwestern
University, May 1.
2002
Invited lecture, Locating Sexuality in Asian American Studies. New Paradigms in Asian American
Studies Colloquium Series, Asian Culture Center, Indiana University, October 18
Invited lecture. Queer Theory and the Global Cultural Studies and Critical Theory Lecture. Department
of Literature. De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. July 24.
Invited presentation. Beyond Intimacy: Unraveling Queer Diasporic Domesticity
Sexualities and Knowledges Conference. University of California, Riverside. February 23-25.
Invited lecture. Provost Lecture, Migrancy, Mobility and Modernity Bowling Green State University.
February 28.
2001
Invited Plenary Panel Speech. Envisioning Southeast Asian Culinary Landscapes. 7 th Annual Asians in
America Conference: Palates of Pleasure: Philosophy and Politics of Southeast Asian Food Conference.
New York University. April 19
2000
Invited lecture. Homecomings: Or the Tale of Two Viruses. Transforming Public and Academic
Cultures: American Ethnic Studies for the Next Millennium Conference. Chapin Simpsons Center for the
Humanities and the Department of American Ethnic Studies. University of Washington. May 19.
Invited lecture, Buried by Memory: Stories of Loss in the Global City. Graduate Colloquium on
Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University. April 7
Invited lecture. Diasporic Intimacies: Quotidian Struggles of Filipino Queer Transmigrants.
Department of Womens Studies. University of California, Davis.
March 14.
Invited lecture. Queering Everyday Life. Gay and Lesbian Studies Program, University of California,
San Diego. March 10.
1999

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Invited lecture Gender Traffic, Sexual Travels: Modernity and the Filipino Queer Diaspora. Committee
on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Studies. University of Arizona, Tucson.
November 4.
Invited lecture. A Queer Itinerary: Deviant Travels to and Beyond the Filipino Nation. Vestiges of War
Conference, Philippine-American War Centennial 1899-1999. New York University. February 21.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Co-Chair, Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, 2006-present
Member, Executive Board, Association for Feminist Anthropology, 2006- Present
Social Science Review Editor, GLQ: Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies. 2005-Present
Member, Advisory Board, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York Graduate
Center, 1999-Present.
Book series co-editor: Transnational Intimacies in Asia and its Diasporas, University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2002-Present
Member, Program Committee, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2006
Member: Social Science Research Council Working Group on Gender and Migration. 2002-Present
Member, Editorial Boards:

American Studies-Asia, 2001-Present,

Journal of Asian American Studies, 1998- 2002
American Sexuality, 2003-Present

Midwest Representative, Association for Asian American Studies, 2000-2001

Member, Board of Directors, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, City University of New York. 19951999
Member, American Anthropological Association Commission on Gay and Lesbian Issues in the
Profession. 1995-2000
Book Manuscript Reviewer: University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Columbia
University Press, Duke University Press, University of Minnesota Press, New York University Press,
Princeton University Press, Rutgers University Press.
Journal Manuscript Reviewer: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, American Quarterly,
Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Women and Performance, GLQ: A Journal of Gay and
Lesbian Studies, positions: east asia cultures critique, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.
Grant Proposal Reviewer: American Foundation for AIDS Research, Wenner Gren Foundation, National
Science Foundation, Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF) - Vienna
Science and Technology Fund, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, New York
City Department of Health AIDS Prevention Program.

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University/Campus Service:
Co-coordinator, Philippine and Filipino American Studies Interest Group, 2005-Present
Organizer, Food Studies and its Futures Conference UIUC, October 12, 2004.
Co-coordinator, Campus Reading Group on Comparative Queer Studies: Race, Sex and Nation, 20022005
Member, Advisory Committee, Asian American Studies Program, UIUC, 2001-Present
Presenter, Sexuality in a Democratic Society. Center for Democracy in a Multi-racial Society, UIUC
November 2, 2005.
Member, Asian Pacific American Resource Committee. Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.
1999-2000
Member, Medical Scholars Steering Committee. College of Medicine and the Graduate College. 19992000
Organizer. Pedagogy and Politics: Queer Studies and its Futures Conference. UIUC, October 28, 1999.
Member, Search Committees (Director of the Gender and Womens Studies Program, Japan specialistwith a joint appointment in Anthropology and East Asian Languages and Literatures; and the Asian
American Studies Program Director), UIUC, 2001-2006
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION:
Member:
American Anthropological Association
Association for Asian American Studies
Asian Studies Association
Modern Language Association
American Studies Association
Association for the Study of Food and Society

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