Research Interests: African Diaspora, Brazil, Angola, social inequality, expressive culture, dance ethnography, the body and embodiment, performance, play, research methods.
- Recent Publications
- K. Wesolowski, Professionalizing Capoeira: The politics of play in 21st century Brazil,
Latin American Perspectives
(2012 (Forthcoming)).
- K. Wesolowski, Review of Stephanie Springgay and Debra Freedman (eds), Curriculum and the Cultural Body,
Teachers College Record
(December, 2007).
- K. Wesolowski, Hard Play: Capoeira and the Politics of Inequality in Rio de Janeiro" (Dissertation, Depart of Anthropology and Education, Columbia University)
(2007).
- K. Wesolowski, "A Diasporic Practice Goes Back to Africa",
Anthropology News, vol. 47 no. 5
(May, 2006),
pp. 27-28, American Anthropological Association.
- 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).