Katya Wesolowski, Instructional Staff of Thompson Writing Program and Visiting Professor of Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Cultural Anthropology
Office Phone:	(919) 660-7087
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2018):

• DANCE 131.01, CAPOEIRA: DANCE/MARTIAL ART Synopsis

  Ark 101, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:35 PM

• CULANTH 295S.01, ANTHROPOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD Synopsis

  Carr 106, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

• CULANTH 302.01, FIELDWORK METHODS Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 204, MW 08:30 AM-09:45 AM

Education:

Ph.D.	Columbia University	2007
MA	Columbia University, (Anthropology and Education)
BA	Reed College (English)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Wesolowski, K, Jogo de Corpo: Capoeira e Ancestralidade / Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry, 2013. A film by Richard Pakleppa, Matthias Röhrig Assunção and Mestre Cobra Mansa. 87 min. Color. Distributed by Manganga Produções., The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 21 no. 3 (2017)
2. Wesolowski, K, From “moral disease” to “national sport”: Race, nation, and capoeira In Brazil, in Sports Culture in Latin American History (January, 2015), pp. 161-182, ISBN 9780822980452
3. Wesolowski, K, HARD PLAY: CAPOEIRA AND THE POLITICS OF INEQUALITY IN RIO DE JANEIRO (June, 2013) [repository]
4. Wesolowski, K, Professionalizing Capoeira The Politics of Play in Twenty-first-Century Brazil, Latin American Perspectives, vol. 39 no. 2 (March, 2012), pp. 82-92, ISSN 0094-582X [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
5. Wesolowski, K, Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity after Independence, Latin American Indian Literatures Journal: a review of American Indian texts and studies, vol. 28 no. 2 (2012), pp. 181-183, ISSN 0888-5613 [Gateway.cgi]