The Distinguished Achievement Award, begun in 2018, honors outstanding contributions to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer anthropology through scholarship, research, teaching, mentoring, service, public engagement, and/or activism. The award seeks to honor our elders, recognize lifetime career achievements, and build community by connecting generations of AQA scholars. This year’s Distinguished Achievement Award will be given to Professor Martin F. Manalansan, who will be honored at the AQA Business Meeting, taking place virtually during the AAAs in St. Louis, Missouri.

Professor Martin F. Manalansan’s pathbreaking scholarship in global queer studies and queer of color critique has profoundly shaped the field of queer anthropology. Martin F. Manalansan is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, New York University, New School University, and the University of the Philippines. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke UP, 2003). He has also co-edited several books, including Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism (NYU Press, 2002) and Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora (NYU Press, 2016). His forthcoming book is entitled “Queer Dwellings: Mess, Mesh, Measure.” He is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies.