Dr. April Manalang has graciously agreed to sit on our panel of experts at the Wisdom Workshop on August 1st at Temple Beth-el! For more information about the event click here.
Trained in both the Social Sciences and Humanities, Dr. April
Manalang earned her Master of Arts in Social Sciences at the University of
Chicago. Recipient of the Outstanding Teaching and Distinguished
Dissertation award, Dr. Manalang completed her doctoral fellowship in
American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, with a
specialization in Politics and Religion, Citizenship, Globalization, and Race
and Ethnicity.
Prior to her doctoral training, Dr. Manalang globally trained
and worked as an invited scholar:
She served as an invited scholar at the University of Leipzig,
Germany, and Kalinga Industrial Institute for Technology University, Orissa,
India. Furthermore, the United States Embassy, in collaboration with
Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg & Magdeburg University, selected
and trained Dr. Manalang in an internationally competitive seminar, in the
areas of Religion in American Politics and Culture. Funded by the
Volkswagen Foundation and in collaboration with the Center for International
Studies and Research Paris (CERI); University of Manchester; Lancaster
University; University of Leipzig, and European University Viadrina, she also
honed her expertise in the areas of “Religion and Modernity: The Societal
Determination of Religion and its Cultural Potential.”
She has also given invited guest-lecture talks at the University of
Chicago, University of Virginia, The College of William and Mary, Virginia
Wesleyan College, and Old Dominion University.
She
is also a recipient of three Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), one
of the most prestigious humanities institutes in the country, grants: Local Community History Project: The Role of
the Black Church and Norfolk State University in the Civil Rights Movement in
Norfolk, Virginia; Honoring Our Bayanis
(Heroes): Filipino-American Military Service Veteran’s Panel and Photo Exhibit;
and Hidden Virginia History: The Connection Between the Buffalo Soldiers and
the Philippines. She has made history alongside the Philippine Cultural by
obtaining the first-ever grant on Filipino Americans in VFH history. Just last
month, she moderated a public panel on Religious Diversity and Immigration in
Virginia, invited and sponsored by the Library of Virginia, the VFH, and the
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities.
Most recently, she has competed internationally and won the VFH
Fellowship as a Research Fellow affiliated with the University of Virginia. She
also interviewed on “With Good Reason” regarding her ongoing research on Filipino-Americans,
Religion, Politics, and Citizenship. Moreover, her department (History and
Interdisciplinary Studies, Norfolk State University) has recently nominated her
as one of the best scholars in the state of Virginia under the age of 40.
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