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Charles D. Piot, Assoicate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Cultural Anthropology
| Office Location: | 220B Social Sciences |
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Teaching (Spring 2023):
- CULANTH 802S.01, DECOLONIZING SOCIAL THEORY
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 204, M 03:30 PM-06:00 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. University of Virginia 1986 M.A. University of Virginia 1982 B.A. Princeton University 1973
- Specialties:
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Transnationalism
Political Economy
Post Colonialism
Popular Culture
Africa
African Diaspora
- Research Interests:
Charlie Piot does research on histories of slavery and colonialism, as well as on contemporary culture and politics, in rural West Africa. His book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), attempts to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. He is currently engaged in several new projects. One explores the way in which (post-Cold War) human rights discourse, democratization, development, and charismatic Christianity are articulating with West African political cultures. A second tracks global discourses about female genital cutting from Western courtrooms and media into the capitals and villages of West Africa. A third explores West African expatriates in the US and Europe, examining the way in which exile reshapes questions of citizenship, sovereignty and national belonging.
- Keywords:
- West Africa • Togo • Political Economy • Globalization • Postcolonial Theory
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Christina Tekie
- Louis Yako
- Mackenzie Cramblit
- Yidong Gong
- Robert Penner
- Brian Smithson
- Spencer Orey
- Ameem Lutfi
- Jon Stapnes
- Jennifer Chien
- Sarah Lincoln
- Juhyung Shim
- Jatin Dua
- Laura Premack
- Eric Owens
- Margaret Mahon
- Ellen Gray
- Danny Hoffman
- Yektan Turkyilmaz
- Senay Ozden
- Attiya Ahmad
- Netta Van Vliet
- Mara Kaufman
- Johnetta Pressley
- Chad Eggleston
- Brendan Pietsch
- Justin Izzo
- Brian Goldstone
- Tami Navarro
- Amy Johnson
- Arianne Dorval
- Louisa Lombard
- Katherine Lambert-Pennington
- Kaifa Roland
- Gonzalo Lamana
- Heather Settle
- Caroline Yezer
- Nilgun Uygun
- Jennifer Prough
- Nichole Green
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Piot, C, Nostalgia For the Future: West Africa After the Cold War (2010), University of Chicago Press (Winner of the African Politics Conference Group Award for Best Book on African Politics published in 2010.)
- Piot, C, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), University of Chicago Press (Co-winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Amaury Talbot Prize for Africanist Anthropology and a finalist for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize. French translation - "Isolement Global: la Modernite du Village au Togo" - Karthala Press, 2008..)
- Piot, C, Heat on the Street: Video Violence in American Teen Culture, Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6 no. 3 (2003), pp. 351-365
- Piot, C, Des cosmopolites dans la brousse, Les Temps Modernes, vol. 57 no. 620-21 (2002), pp. 240-260
- Piot, C, Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 100 no. 1 (January, 2001), pp. 155-170, Duke University Press, ISSN 0038-2876 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]