Conversations in Atlantic Theory

Stacey A. Langwick on Medicines That Feed Us: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World

Stacey Langwick, MPH, PhD, is a cultural and medical anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. Her research, writing, teaching and program b

Eric C. Rath on Kanpai: The History of Sake

Dr. Eric C. Rath is a professor of history at the University of Kansas where he teaches courses on food history and premodern Japan. A leading specialist in Japanese food

Lauren Derby on Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

Dr. Lauren (Robin) Derby’s research has treated dictatorship and everyday life, the long durée social history of the Haitian and Dominican border, and how notions of race

Chelsi West Ohueri on Encountering Race in Albania: An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife

Dr. Chelsi West Ohueri is a sociocultural anthropologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Samuele Collu on Into the Loop: An Ethnography of Compulsive Repetition

Dr. Samuele Collu is an Assistant Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at McGill University. His research examines the entanglement between psychic life, t

Don Thomas Deere on The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space

This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to Conversations in Atlantic Theory, a podcast dedicated to books and ideas generated from and about the Atlantic world. In co

Jonathan Howard on Inhabitants of the Deep: The Blueness of Blackness

Dr. Jonathan Howard is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English at Yale University. His research and teaching broadly interrogate western ideas about race and

John Drabinski on Atlantic Theory, So Unimaginable a Price, and At the Margins of Nihilism

Along with dozens of scholarly articles and a handful of edited books and journal issues, he is the author of seven books: Sensibility and Singularity (2001), Godard Betw

Alejandro L. Madrid on The Archive and the Aural City: Sound, Knowledge, and the Politics of Listening

Professor Alejandro Luis Madrid is the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is a cultural theorist of sound and music working in Latin American

Akane Kanai on The New Politics of Online Feminism

Dr. Akane Kanai is a feminist cultural studies scholar, currently based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She researches the relational politic

Marisa Solomon on The Elsewhere Is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life

Dr. Marisa Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches courses in feminist inter

Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez on Unmaking Botany: Science and Vernacular Knowledge in the Colonial Philippines

Dr.  Kathleen "Kat" Cruz Gutierrez (Ph.D. Southeast Asian Studies, Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian history and the history of science at the Universit

Joseph M. Pierce on Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair

Dr.  Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature and the Founding Director of the Native A

Deborah A. Thomas on Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance

Dr. Deborah A. Thomas is Chair and the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, and the Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsy

Bimbola Akinbola on Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art

Dr. Bimbola Akinbola is an artist and scholar currently based in Chicago. Working at the intersection of African diapora studies, performance, and visual art, her scholar

drea brown on Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women

Dr. drea brown is a queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Tra

Atiya Husain on No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism

Dr. Atiya Husain is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and a faculty affiliate in Anthropology/Sociology at Williams College. Her work has been published in scholarl

Celina de Sá on Diaspora without Displacement: The Coloniality and Promise of Capoeira in Senegal

Dr. Celina de Sá is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally from the SF Bay Area, she received her PhD with distinction at

Julia Elyachar On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo

Dr. Julia Elyachar is an author, anthropologist, and political economist.  She was trained in anthropology, economics, history of political and economic thought, politica

Élika Ortega on Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas

Dr. Élika Ortega is assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Ortega writes about the intersection of di