Dr. Aprilfaye Manalang
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Office: Brown 211.10
Phone: (757) 823-8198
atmanalang@nsu.edu
Expertise: Politics and religion, globalization, citizenship and race and ethnicity, immigration, transnationalism
Courses Taught: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies, Foundations of Interdisciplinary Studies, Research methods
Bio: Dr. Aprilfaye Manalang is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Norfolk State University (NSU), a historically black college/university in Virginia. She trained in the Social Sciences (University of Chicago, MA) and the Humanities (Doctoral Fellow, Bowling Green State University, PhD) and ranked as a top 10 finalist for the National Hiett Prize in the Humanities, an “annual award aimed at identifying young candidates...whose work shows extraordinary promise and has a significant component related to contemporary culture.”
April is a longstanding international scholar who has collaborated with Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and other universities. A Virginia Humanities multiple-grantee fellow and John Templeton Foundation Early Career Award recipient, she served as a visiting scholar in Germany and India. In 2020, Cambridge University invited April to serve as a visiting scholar, but deferred due to COVID-19. April also spoke at the Vatican. Deeply devoted to her students, April won the outstanding teaching and scholarship award at NSU, the most prestigious university-wide award.
April serves as a consultant for Harvard, the U.S. State Department, Virginia Humanities, and the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, one of the oldest and most distinguished museums in the nation.
https://ptsem.edu/profiles/aprilfaye-manalang/
Curriculum Vitae