Saloma-Akpedonu, Czarina

Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu is Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences of the Ateneo de Manila University. She obtained her doctoral degree in Sociology from Universitaet Bielefeld in Germany, her M.A. in Population Science from Peking University in the People’s Republic of China, and her B.A. in Sociology from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. Her professional responsibilities included being Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Director of the  Institute of Philippine Culture, President of the Philippine Sociological Society, President of the Women’s Studies Association of the Philippines, Vice President of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Science and Technology of the International Sociological Association, and Chair of the Technical Panel for the Social Sciences and Communication of the Philippine Commission on Higher Education. Her publications span a full range of writing genres and audiences, including peer-reviewed research, technical reports, policy recommendations, and collaborative crossover books. She is the author of Possible Worlds in Impossible Spaces: Globality, Knowledge, Gender and Information Technology in the Philippines (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006); Casa Boholana: Vintage Houses of Bohol (with E. Akpedonu, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011); Many Voices, Many Journeys: Life and Times of Filipina Overseas Workers, 1960-2010 (with E. Manlapaz and Y. Buencamino, Anvil Publishing, 2015); and Food Consumption in the City: Practices and Patterns in Urban Asia and the Pacific (with M. Sahakian and S. Erkman, Routledge, 2016). Her work has received awards: a Best Book Award in the 2015 Migration Advocacy and Media Awards of the Commission for Filipinos Overseas, a Finalist citation in the 2016 National Book Awards of the National Book Development Board, the Ateneo de Manila University’s Loyola Schools “Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award in the Social Sciences” in 2012, and its “Scholarly Publication with the Most Social Impact Award” in 2017. Dr. Saloma-Akpedonu was named “Outstanding Young Scientist” by the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology in 2007.