Number of vacancies: 20
Regular course:Social History Program
Mini-bio of the Professor. Instructor: Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Barcelona (1985), a master's degree in Communication Arts from the New York Institute of Technology (1989), and a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1997). He was awarded a John Hope Franklin Fellowship for postdoctoral research at the National Humanities Center, North Carolina, USA (2010-11). His main research interests include the history and anthropology of Afro-Brazilian and African religions and their Atlantic connections. He is also interested in the history of slavery and the slave trade, the formation of African ethnicities in Brazil, and visual anthropology.