Maria Tanyag is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations of the Australian National University and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow. She is author of the book The Global Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health (Oxford University Press, 2024). Her research has been also published in various journals including The Lancet, Human Rights Quarterly, Signs, Gender & Development, and Review of International Studies. She has contributed Op-Eds in The Guardian and The Conversation. Maria specialises in critical and feminist approaches to global peace and security, focusing on the Asia Pacific region and the Philippines in particular. She was selected as one of the inaugural International Studies Association (ISA) Emerging Global South Scholars in 2019, as resident Women, Peace, and Security Fellow at Pacific Forum (Hawaii) in 2021, and as a British Academy Visiting Fellow in 2023. 

Global politics of sexual and reproductive health, global political economy and social reproduction in crisis settings, feminist critiques of postconflict and postdisaster crisis response, international feminist political theory, feminist methodologies in IR, Asia Pacific women's networks