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Katya Wesolowski, Lecturing Fellow of Cultural Anthropology

Please note: Katya has left the "Center for Latin American Caribbean Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

 As an anthropologist and dancer, I am interested in the interrelationship between bodies, cultural practices, politics and ethnographic writing.  My research explores expressive culture of the African Diaspora with a focus on Brazil and Angola. My book,  Capoeira Connections: a memoir in motion (UPF 2023) is a multi-sited auto-ethnography of my thirty-year involvement as a practitioner and researcher of Afro-Brazilian capoeira.  See my website for more information: www.katyawesolowski.com

Contact Info:
Office Location:  Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  (919) 660-7087
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.katyawesolowski.com

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • DANCE 131.01, CAPOEIRA: DANCE/MARTIAL ART Synopsis
    Rubenstein 202, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
  • CULANTH 226S.01, PERFORMING AFRICAN DIASPORA Synopsis
    Rubenstein 124, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 229S.01, DANCE 226S.01, MUSIC 226S.01, ROMST 226S.01)
  • CULANTH 302.01, FIELDWORK METHODS Synopsis
    Friedl Bdg 216, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
    (also cross-listed as I&E 302.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • CULANTH 233S.01, PERFORMING BRAZIL Synopsis
    Rubenstein 124, WF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 235S.01, DANCE 233S.01, MUSIC 233S.01, PORTUGUE 233S.01, ROMST 233S.01)
  • CULANTH 302.01, FIELDWORK METHODS Synopsis
    Friedl Bdg 204, WF 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
    (also cross-listed as I&E 302.01)
Education:

Ph.D.Columbia University2007
MAColumbia University, (Anthropology and Education)
BAReed College (English)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Wesolowski, K, Capoeira Connections A Memoir in Motion (January, 2023), pp. 304 pages, University of Florida Press, ISBN 1683403207  [abs]
  2. Wesolowski, K, Imagining Brazil in Africa: Capoeira's Transatlantic Roots and Routes, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 25 no. 3 (September, 2020), pp. 453-472 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Wesolowski, K; Castañeda, QE, Ethnography In-Sight: Diasporic Imaginings, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 25 no. 3 (September, 2020), pp. 370-373 [doi]
  4. Wesolowski, K, Body Games: Capoeira and Ancestry, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, vol. 22 no. 1 (March, 2017), pp. 198-201, WILEY
  5. 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)


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