We are pleased to announce that Dr. Soledad Natalia M. Dalisay assumed office as director of the Third World Studies Center on September 9, 2021. She is a professor at the Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines. Dr. Dalisay obtained her undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from UP Diliman. The new TWSC director is a well-published scholar on medical anthropology, anthropology of disaster, and gender and sexuality. From 2009-2014, she served as the coordinator of the Office of Anti-Sexual Harassment, and chaired the Department of Anthropology from 2014-2020.
Dr. Dalisay will serve a three-year term as the director of the Third World Studies Center. She is the ninth director of TWSC. She succeeded Dr. Joseph Palis, who served as the Center's director from September 2019 to July 2021 and is now chair of the Department of Geography. Dr. Jely A. Galang of the Department of History will continue as the Center’s deputy director.
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