J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies

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Curriculum Vitae

Specialties:

Anthropology & History

African Diaspora

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J. Lorand Matory is the Director of the Center for African and African American Research and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He conducts field research in Brazil, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica and the US. Choice magazine named his Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion an Outstanding Book of the Year in 1994, and his Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé received the Herskovits Prize for the best book of 2005 from the African Studies Association. His forthcoming research on ethnic diversity at historically black Howard University was the subject of the 2008 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures and will be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. J. Lorand Matory. Of the Race but above the Race: Racial Stigma, Culture and the Hidden Social Curriculum of the University. University of Chicago Press, 2012.  [abs]
2. J. Lorand Matory. "What Harvard Has Taught Me." Harvard Crimson  (June 2, 2009). [available here] [Other]
3. J. Lorand Matory. ""Favorite Professors" Open Letter to the Class of 2009." Harvard College Yearbook. Edited by Elaine Liu. 2009 vol. 2009 (Spring, 2009): 53. [PDF] [abs]
4. J. Lorand Matory. "Obituary: Elliot Percival Skinner (1924-2007)." American Anthropologist  vol. 111 no. 1 ( 2009): 125-30. [PDF] [abs]
5. J. Matory. ""The Many Who Dance in Me: Afro-Atlantic Ontology and the Problem with 'Transnationalism'"." Transnational Transcendence. Edited by Thomas Csordas.  ( 2009): 231-262. [PDF] [abs]