Katya Wesolowski, TWP Lecturing Fellow
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Education:
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PhD, Columbia University (Anthropology and Education),
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MA, Columbia University, (Anthropology and Education),
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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
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- 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 47.5 (May, 2006): 27-28.
- K. Wesolowski, Review of Daryle Williams, Culture Wars In Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945. Luso-Brazilian Review. 39:1
(Summer, 2002).