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Brief Profile

Sol is one of the faculty members in the Department who has finished both undergraduate and graduate degrees all in Anthropology. She deviated a bit in between her anthropology degrees and finished a course in Nursing and is now a Registered Nurse, having successfully hurdled the Professional Licensure Examinations for Nurses. Her interests include Gender and Sexuality, the Anthropology of Disaster, Culture, Health and Ecology, and, Food and Culture. She has done fieldwork in the provinces of Batangas, Iloilo, Albay and South Cotabato, aside from Metro Manila. Sol was the Field School Director of the Anthropology Majors of Batch 2005-2006 who did their field work in La Trinidad, Benguet and one of the field school programs of Batch 2004-2005 which went to Tanauan City in Batangas. She occupied administrative positions in the Department and the University such as the Assistant College Secretary of the CSSP from 1998-1999 and the Department Graduate Program Coordinator from 2007 to the present. She has also been Coordinator of the the UP Diliman Office of Anti-Sexual Harassment since 2006. She was a member of the CHED Technical Panel on History and Anthropology in 2010.

Research Interest and Specialization

Gender and Sexuality, Anthropology of Disaster, Cultural Ecology of Health

Geographical Areas / Field Sites

Surigao Del Norte, Davao De Oro, Batangas, Albay, Antique, Metro Manila

Research Involvements

  • Ethnography of sanitation practices
  • Resettlement Component of the Project Completion Report of the ADB/RP Pasig River Rehabilitation Program
  • Development of the Zero Open Defecation Program (ZODP)
  • DOST project on : Voices of YOlanda: Narratives of risk and coping among affected people in Tacloban City, Guiuan, Eastern Samar and San Francisco, Cebu.

Research Reports

  • Contextualizing sanitation practices in the local culture: Sanitation among the B’laan and the some Muslim communities in South Cotabato.

Publications

  • Roxas, E., Acacio-Claro, P. J., Lota, M. M., Abeleda, A., Dalisay, S. N., Landicho, M., Fujimori, Y., Rosuello, J. Z., Kaufman, J., Danchin, M., et al. (2025). Enablers and barriers of COVID-19 vaccination in the Philippines. Vaccines, 13(7), 719. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines13070719
  • Dalisay, S. N. M., Belizario, V. Y., Jr., Joe, J. A. S., Lumangaya, C. R., & Cruz, R. D. (2022). Critical medical ecology and intersectionality perspectives in schistosomiasis prevention and control in selected communities in Mindanao, the Philippines. Journal of Biosocial Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932021000766
  • Dalisay, S. N. M., & Tan, M. L. (2021). Beyond push and pull: The narratives, aspirations, and remittance practices of OFWs in Hong Kong and Taiwan and their families. Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, 57(2), 36–64.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2019). Remembering disasters: The role of ICH in disaster memory. In W. Iwamoto & Y. Nojima (Eds.), Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Natural Disasters (pp. 38–41). International Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2016). Beyond men and women: A critical perspective on gender and disaster. Disasters. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12209
  • Dalisay, S. N. M., & de Guzman, M. H. (2016). Risk and culture: The case of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, 25(5), 701–714.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2015). Sensing the world: Social sensorium in the chemical use of selected youth in the Philippines. Social Science Diliman, 11(2), 90–110.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2014). Engaging local knowledge for disaster risk reduction. Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal for Third World Studies, 29(2), 75–102.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2014). Structural drivers of genders and sexualities: Continuity and change in the Philippines from 1985 to 2010. In Mobile sexualities: Transformations of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia. The Southeast Asian Consortium on Gender, Sexuality and Health.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2014). Changing spaces in the transformation of genders and sexualities in the Philippines: Mobile phone usage and household helpers in Metro Manila. In Mobile sexualities: Transformations of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia. The Southeast Asian Consortium on Gender, Sexuality and Health.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2014). From deviant to bakla, strong to stronger: Mainstreaming sexual and gender minorities into disaster risk reduction in the Philippines. Forum for Development Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2014.952330
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2011). The ravaging storm: Using an anthropological lens in disaster studies. In C. P. Tatel, Jr. (Ed.), Ethnographies of disaster: The 2009 UP Anthropology Field School, Tiwi, Albay. Aquinas University of Legazpi.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2010). Women fishers facing the challenges of climate change. In E. Ferrer & S. N. M. Dalisay (Eds.), Women in fisheries and climate change. Organizing Committee for the Workshop on “Women in Fisheries and Climate Change.”
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2010). Climate trouble. Yemaya, (34).
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2009). Desiring the other: Cross-border sexuality and the Filipino male. In M. Darwin & A. M. Wattie (Eds.), A new face in a far away place: Sexual network across borders within Greater Southeast Asian nations. Center for Population and Policy Studies, Gadjah Mada University.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2008). Survival strategies to overcome Inaagosto and Nordeste in two coastal communities in Batangas and Mindoro, the Philippines. Disaster Prevention and Management, 17(3), 373–382.
  • Dalisay, S. N. M. (2005). Surviving Inaagosto: Household responses to threats of the lean season. Philippine Geographical Journal, 49, 121–134.