Czarina Saloma

Czarina Aya-ay Saloma - Akpedonu is a Filipino sociologist who is the current Vice President for Higher Education of Ateneo de Manila University. Prior to this appointment, she was dean of the Dr Rosita G Leong School of Social Sciences at Ateneo de Manila University.

Education Saloma-Akpedonu has a bachelor's degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman, a master's degree from Peking University in China, and a doctorate (Dr. rer. soc.) from Bielefeld University in Germany. Casa Boholana: Vintage Houses of Bohol (with Erik Akpedonu, Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011) Many Journeys, Many Voices: The Life and Times of Filipina Overseas Workers, 1960-2010 (with Edna Manlapaz and Yael Buencamino, 2015, Anvil Publishing Food Consumption in the City: Practices and Patterns in Urban Asia and the Pacific (edited volume with Marlyne Sahakian and Suren Erkman, Routledge, 2016) New Consumers in the Global South No Longer Poor, Not Yet Middle Class (with Anna Cristina Pertierra, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Tingting Liu, Czarina Saloma, Ahtziri Molina) 2026. Berlin: De Gruyter

Recognition The National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines named Saloma-Akpedonu an outstanding young scientist in 2007. She has also served as president of the Philippine Sociological Society and the Women's Studies Association of the Philippines.