| Charles D. Piot, Professor and Bass Fellow
 Teaching (Spring 2025):
(typical courses)
- Aaas 103.01, Intro to african studies
Synopsis
- Reuben-coo 130, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- Aaas 307.01, Development and africa
Synopsis
- Languages 211, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- Culanth 350.01, Anthropology of money
Synopsis
- Social sciences 136, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Education:
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Ph.D. University of Virginia 1986
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M.A. University of Virginia 1982
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B.A. Princeton University 1973
- Specialties:
- Transnationalism
- Political Economy
- Post Colonialism
- Popular Culture
- Africa
- African Diaspora
Research Interests:
I do research on contemporary culture and politics, as well as on histories of slavery and colonialism, in francophone West Africa. My first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999) attempted to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. My recent book, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa After the Cold War (2010), explores the way in which human rights discourse, democratization, NGOs, and charismatic Christianity are remaking sovereignty, the biopolitical, and political culture in West Africa. An in-progress book on Togolese applying for, and attempting to game, the US Diversity (green card) lottery also explores the experiences of West African expatriates in the US and Europe. I am co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology through 2015. - Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Piot, C. Nostalgia For the Future: West Africa After the Cold War. University of Chicago Press, 2010. (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. University of Chicago Press, 1999. (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): 351-365.
- Piot, C. "Des cosmopolites dans la brousse." Les Temps Modernes vol. 57 no. 620-21 ( 2002): 240-260.
- Piot, C. "Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic." South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 100 no. 1 (January, 2001): 155-170. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
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