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Michael Salgarolo (he/him) is a Faculty Fellow in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University, where he teaches courses in Asian/Pacific/American Studies. His research is centered on questions of race, migration, and empire in Asian American history. His current research project, exploring race-making, empire, and migration through the history of Louisiana’s early Filipino communities, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the NYU University-Wide Dissertation Award, and is currently being adapted into a book manuscript. His research has been published in the Journal of Southern History, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, and The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies and has been supported by the NYU Center for the Humanities, the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University, the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan, and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

Dr. Salgarolo contributed a chapter on the Filipino settlement at St. Malo, Louisiana to Hidden Voices, an Asian American Pacific Islander social studies curriculum guide for the New York City Department of Education, and is the founder of UNASSIMILATED, a walking tour company that tells a people’s history of Asian America. His research has been featured in the Huffington Post, CNN, and Inverse.