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Lauren Derby on Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
Dr. Lauren (Robin) Derby’s research has treated dictatorship and everyday life, the long durée social history of the Haitian and Dominican border, and how notions of r...
Chelsi West Ohueri on Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife
Dr. Chelsi West Ohueri is a sociocultural anthropologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Aust...
Samuele Collu on Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition
Dr. Samuele Collu is an Assistant Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at McGill University. His research examines the entanglement between psychic life...
Don Thomas Deere on The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space
This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In...
Jonathan Howard on Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness
Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English at Yale University. His research and teaching broadly interrogate western ideas about race a...
John Drabinski on Atlantic Theory, So Unimaginable a Price, and At the Margins of Nihilism
Along with dozens of scholarly articles and a handful of edited books and journal issues, he is the author of seven books: Sensibility and Singularity (2001), Godard B...
Alejandro L. Madrid on The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening
Professor Alejandro Luis Madrid is the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is a cultural theorist of sound and music working in Latin Ameri...
Akane Kanai on The New Politics of Online Feminism
Dr. Akane Kanai is a feminist cultural studies scholar, currently based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She researches the relational poli...
Marisa Solomon on The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life
Dr. Marisa Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches courses in feminist in...
Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez on Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines
Dr. Kathleen "Kat" Cruz Gutierrez (Ph.D. Southeast Asian Studies, Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian history and the history of science at the Univer...
Joseph M. Pierce on Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair
Dr. Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and the Founding Director of the Nativ...
Deborah A. Thomas on Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance
Dr. Deborah A. Thomas is Chair and the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pen...
Bimbola Akinbola on Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art
Dr. Bimbola Akinbola is an artist and scholar currently based in Chicago. Working at the intersection of African diapora studies, performance, and visual art, her scho...
drea brown on Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women
Dr. drea brown is a queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and ...
Atiya Husain on No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism
Dr. Atiya Husain is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and a faculty affiliate in Anthropology/Sociology at Williams College. Her work has been published in schol...
Celina de Sá on Diaspora without Displacement: The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal
Dr. Celina de Sá is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally from the SF Bay Area, she received her PhD with distinction...
Julia Elyachar On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
Dr. Julia Elyachar is an author, anthropologist, and political economist. She was trained in anthropology, economics, history of political and economic thought, polit...
Élika Ortega on Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas
Dr. Élika Ortega is assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Ortega writes about the intersection of...
Margaret J. Wiener on Magic's Translation: Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia
Dr. Margaret J. Wiener is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her book Visible and Invisible Realms: Power, Magic, and Colo...
Mary Poole and Meitamei Olol Dapash on Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures
Dr. Mary Poole is a historian of U.S. and African history, with an emphasis on histories of social movements, racial capitalism, colonialism, feminist and other critic...