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Renato Rosaldo is one of the world's leading cultural anthropologists. He has done field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines, and he is the author of Ilongot Headhunting: 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis.
He is also the editor of Creativity/Anthropology, Anthropology of Globlization, and Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: National and Belonging in the Hinterlands, among other books.
Rosaldo has been conducting research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California since 1989, and contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizens: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights. He is also a poet and has published three volumes of poetry, most recently "The Day of Shelly's Death". Rosaldo has served as President of the American Ethnological Society, Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and Chair of the Stanford Department of Anthropology. He has left Stanford and now teaches at NYU, where he served as the inaugural Director of Latino Studies.
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