Katya Wesolowski, TWP Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program and Lecturing Fellow of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

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Teaching (Summer2 2012):

• CULANTH 191T.01, MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Synopsis

  Perkins 2-059, MTuWThF 09:30 AM-10:45 AM

  (also cross-listed as GLHLTH 191.01)

Education:

PhD	Columbia University (Anthropology and Education)
MA	Columbia University, (Anthropology and Education)
BA	Reed College (English)

Research Interests: African Diaspora, Brazil, Angola, social inequality, expressive culture, dance ethnography, the body and embodiment, performance, play, research methods.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. K. Wesolowski, Professionalizing Capoeira: The politics of play in 21st century Brazil, Latin American Perspectives (2012 (Forthcoming))
2. K. Wesolowski, Review of Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman (eds), Curriculum and the Cultural Body, Teachers College Record (December, 2007)
3. K. Wesolowski, Hard Play: Capoeira and the Politics of Inequality in Rio de Janeiro" (Dissertation, Depart of Anthropology and Education, Columbia University) (2007) [PDF]
4. K. Wesolowski, "A Diasporic Practice Goes Back to Africa", Anthropology News, vol. 47 no. 5 (May, 2006), pp. 27-28, American Anthropological Association [PDF]
5. K. Wesolowski, Review of Daryle Williams, Culture Wars In Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945, Luso-Brazilian Review., vol. 39 no. 1 (Summer, 2002)