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.

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

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

• 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.

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