Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., The University of Chicago 1991
  • M.A., The University of Chicago 1986
  • B.A., Harvard University 1982
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2023
  • Professor of African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2009 - 2010
  • Chair, Department of African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2009 - 2010
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • MAY 13, 2016

    WUNC

    Matory ‘s 'Stigma and Culture' examines cultural class in black populations

  • FEB 9, 2016

    Inside Higher Ed

    J. Lorand Matory: 'Stigma and Culture'

  • NOV 8, 2013

    Duke in Pictures: Lucumi Music

  • JUL 15, 2013

    the News & Observer

    Duke Professor’s Trayvon Martin Moment

  • JUL 15, 2013

    News & Observer

    Op-ed: One Duke professor’s Trayvon Martin moment

  • JUL 15, 2013

    News & Observer

    Op-ed: One Duke professor’s Trayvon Martin moment

  • JUN 20, 2013

    Matory Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
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  Awards & Honors

  • J. I. Staley Prize. School for Advanced Research. March 2022
  • Senior Book Prize. Awarded Biennially by the American Ethnological Society. November 2020
  • Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies. American Academy of Religion. 2019
  • Alexander von Humboldt Prize, 2013. Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Foreign Ministry, Federal Republic of Germany. June 2013
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, The Maret School, Washington, DC, 2013. The Maret School, Washington, DC. 2013
  • Distinguished Africana Award. University of North Carolina, Charlotte. October 2012
  • James Marsh Professorship-at-Large. University of Vermont. 2012
  • Distinguished Africanist Award. American Anthropological Association, Association for Africanist Anthropology. November 2010
  • Thomas Langford Lectureship Award. Duke University. March 2010
  • Association for Africanist Anthropology-Distinguished Lecture. American Anthropological Association. 2010
  • Favorite Professors of the Harvard College Class of 2009.. Harvard Yearbook. May 2009
  • Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures. University of Rochester. October 22, 2008
  • Outstanding Africana Service Award. African-New World Studies, Florida International University. March 2008
  • S. Allen Counter Award for Excellence in Faculty and Administration. Association of Black Harvard Women. April 15, 2006
  • Dr. Brandon Fradd Research Fund. ?. 2006
  • Melville J. Herskovits Prize. African Studies Association. 2006
  • Notable Book of the Year Award (1994). Choice Magazine . 2005
  • Fellowships for University Teachers. National Endowment for the Humanities. 1995
  • W. E. B. Du Bois Fellowship for Afro-American Research. W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University. 1992
  • Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Anthropology. Princeton University. 1991
  • Charles Gaius Bolin Fellowship. Williams College, Univesity of Chicago. 1990
  • Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. U.S. Department of Education. 1988
  • International Studies Fellowship. Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) . 1987
  • CIC International Studies Fellowship. Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). 1986
  • Roy D. Albert Prize for Excellence in the Graduate Study of Anthropology. University of Chicago. 1986
  • National Science Foundation Fellowship. National Science Foundation. 1985
  • CIC Graduate Fellowship for Minorities. Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). 1984
  • Danforth-Compton Fellowship for Graduate Study. University of Chicago. 1984
  • Rotary Scholarship for Graduate Study Abroad. Rotrary Foundation . 1982
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • African Americans
  • Anthropology
  • Art, African
  • Brazil
  • Caribbean Americans
  • Cuba
  • Emigration and Immigration
  • Ethnicity
  • Freedom
  • Gender
  • Gullahs
  • Haiti
  • Immigrants
  • Latin Americans
  • Memory
  • Nigeria
  • Orisha religion
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Santeria
  • Slavery
  • Spirit possession
  • Sweden
  • Transnationalism
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Cuba (Country) 
    • Nigeria (Country) 
    • United States of America (Country) 

  • Research

    • Brazil (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Brazil (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Doctoral Dissertation Research: Piety in Progress: Video Filmmaking and Religious Encounter in Benin awarded by  National Science Foundation 2014 - 2016
  • Crafting Freedom awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2012 - 2013
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  External Relationships

  • Lanzhou University, Minzu University of Beijing
  • Southern Illinois University, New York University, Yale University, Rutgers University, School for Advanced Research
  • University of Toronto
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Matory, J Lorand. The Fetish Revisited: Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018.
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    • Matory, J. L. Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America. London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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    • Matory, J. L. Religión Afro-Atlántica: Tradición, Trasnacionalismo y Matriarcado en el Candomblé Brasileño. Editorial Oriente/Casa del Caribe, 2014.
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    • Matory, J. L. Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble. Princeton University Press, 2009.
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    • Matory, J. L. Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo-Yoruba Religion. New York & London: Berghahn Books, 2005.
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    • Matory, J. L. Vessels of Power: the Dialectical Symbolism of Power in Yoruba Religion and Polity - Part One, 1986.
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    • Matory, J. L. Vessels of Power: the Dialectical Symbolism of Power in Yoruba Religion and Polity - Part Two, 1986.
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    • Matory, J. L. A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part One, 1982.
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    • Matory, J. L. A Broken Calabash: Social Aspects of Worship among Brazilian and West African Yoruba--Part Two, 1982.
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  • Academic Articles

    • Matory, J Lorand. “基于白-黑肤色差异的族裔间不平等及其生成逻辑 (The Light-Dark Hierarchy of Human Worth).” Translated by Dongxu Liu. Journal of Chinese National Community Studies (中华民族共同体研究） 2023 (1), no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 143–76.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “"Was Marx a Fetishist?".” Extrablatt 2022, no. 19 (February 9, 2022).
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “O navio de volta para casa: Tropos analíticos como mapas da e para a história cultural da diáspora africana.” Contemporânea  Revista De Sociologia Da Ufscar 10, no. 3 (2020): 969–93. https://doi.org/10.31560/2316-1329.v10n3.6.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Collecting and Exhibiting at the Crossroads: In Honor of Eshu.” Material Religion 12, no. 3 (September 2016): 378–80.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Collecting and Exhibiting at the Crossroads: In Honor of Eshu.” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 12, no. 3 (September 2016): 378–80.
    • Matory, J. L. “Watering the Flowers While Black.” News & Observer (Raleigh, Nc), July 14, 2016.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “In-Depth Review: The Formation of Candomblé: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil, by Luis Nicolau Parés.” The Americas 72, no. 4 (October 2015): 609–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/tam.2015.70.
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    • Matory, J. L. “In-Depth Review--The Formation of Candomble: Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil, by Luis Nicolau Pares.” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History 72, no. 04 (October 2015): 609–28.
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    • Matory, J. L. “One Duke Professor's Trayvon Martin Moment.” The News and Observer (Raleigh, Nc), July 13, 2013.
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    • Matory, J. L. “The illusion of isolation: The Gullah/Geechees and the political economy of African culture in the Americas.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 50, no. 4 (October 8, 2008): 949–80. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417508000406.
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    • Matory, J. L. “David Maybury-Lewis--Anthropologist keen to protect the interests of the peoples of central Brazil.” The Guardian, February 5, 2008.
    • Holsey, Bayo. “Black Atlantic religion: Tradition, transnationalism, and matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian candomble.” American Anthropologist 110, no. 1 (2008): 128–29.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Feminismo, nacionalismo, e a luta pelo significado do adé no Candomblé: ou, como Edison Carneiro e Ruth landes inverteram o curso da historia.” Revista De Antropologia: Revista De Antropologia Da Universidade De São Paulo 51, no. 1 (2008): 107–20.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions.” Journal of Religion in Africa 37, no. 3 (2007): 398–425. https://doi.org/10.1163/157006607X218764.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Gendered Agendas: The Secrets Scholars Keep about Yorùbá-Atlantic Religion.” Gender & History 15, no. 3 (November 1, 2003): 409–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0953-5233.2003.00314.x.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Gendered Agendas: the Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion.” Gender and History 15 (2003): 408–38.
    • Matory, J Lorand. “Contradiction and Forgetting among the Yewésseys.” Transforming Anthropology 10 (2002): 2–12.
    • Matory, J Lorand. “Contradiction and Forgetting in Yewéssey Culture.” Transforming Anthropology 10, no. 2 (July 2001): 2–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/tran.2001.10.2.2.
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    • Matory, J. L. “The Gullah and the Black Atlantic.” Footsteps: African American History and Heritage Magazine 3, no. 2 (March 2001): 10–11.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Africans in the United States.” Footsteps: African American History and Heritage Magazine 3, no. 2 (March 2001): 6–9.
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    • Matory, J. L. “The cult of nations' and the ritualization of their purity.” South Atlantic Quarterly 100, no. 1 (2001): 171–214. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-100-1-171.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Surpassing “Survival”: On the Urbanity of “Traditional Religion” in the Afro-Atlantic World.” The Black Scholar 30, no. 3–4 (September 2000): 36–43. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2000.11431107.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Cuba and African Diaspora Religion.” Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America, no. Winter (2000).
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    • Matory, J. L. “The English professors of Brazil: On the diasporic roots of the Yorùbá nation.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41, no. 1 (January 1, 1999): 72–103. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417599001875.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Jeje: repensando nações e transnacionalismo.” Mana: Estudos De Antropologia Social 5, no. 1 (January 1, 1999): 57–80. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-93131999000100003.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Yorubá: As Rotas e as Raízes da Nação Transatlântica, 1830-1950.” Horizontes Antropológicos 4, no. 9 (October 1998): 263–92.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Yoruba: A World Civilization.” Calliope: World History for Young People, February 1998, 4–6.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Book Review of Yoruba Sacred Kingship: “ A Power Like that of the Gods” (1996) by John Pemberton, III, and Funşọ Afọlayan.” Anthropological Quarterly 71 (1998): 155–56.
    • Matory, J Lorand. “The King’s Male-Order Bride: the Making of a Yoruba Priest in a Post-Modern Age.” Edited by Flora Kaplan, 1997, 381–400.
    • Matory, J. L. “The king's male-order bride The modern making of a Yoruba priest.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 810 (January 1, 1997): 381–400. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48136.x.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Revisiting the African Diaspora: Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora . Joseph M. Murphy. ; Santeria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories . George Brandon. ; Santeria Garments and Altars: Speaking without a Voice . Ysamur Flores-Pena, Roberta J. Evanchuk.” American Anthropologist 98, no. 1 (March 1996): 167–70. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1996.98.1.02a00210.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Rival empires: Islam and the religions of spirit possession among the Òyóo-Yorùbá.” American Ethnologist 21, no. 3 (August 1994): 495–515. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1994.21.3.02a00030.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Review article on Creativity of Power: Essays on Cosmology and Action in African Societies (1989).” Edited by Ivan Karp and William Arens. Journal of Religion in Africa 23 (1993): 175–80.
    • Matory, J Lorand. “Book review of Africanisms in American Culture.” Edited by Joseph E. Holloway. American Anthropologist 93 (1991): 489–90.
    • Matory, J. L. “Stureplan People: Region, Race and Class in Today’s Sweden.” Transition 118 (n.d.).
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    • Matory, James. “J. Lorand Matory's Black Atlantic Religion: A Retrospective Discussion.” Journal of Africana Religions 6, no. 1 (n.d.): 50–122.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “Matory, J. (2007). Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions. Journal of Religion in Africa, 37(3), 398-425. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/27594424,” n.d.

  • Book Sections

    • Matory, J Lorand. “The English Professors of Brazil: On the Diasporic Roots of the Yoruba Nation.” In MAKING OF BRAZIL’S BLACK MECCA, 3–35, 2018.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “THE FETISH REVISITED Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make INTRODUCTION.” In FETISH REVISITED, 1–39, 2018.
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    • Matory, J. L. “From ‘Survival’ to ‘Dialogue’: Analytic Tropes in the Study of African-Diaspora Cultural History.” In Transatlantic Caribbean: Dialogues of People, Practices, Ideas, edited by I. Kummels, C. Rauhut, S. Rinke, and B. Timm. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, 2014.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “He Fit the Description: Prejudice and Pain in Progressive Communities.” American Anthropological Association, 2012.
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    • Matory, J. L. “The Homeward Ship: Analytic Tropes as Maps of and for African-Diaspora Cultural History".” In Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge, edited by R. Hardin and K. M. Clarke, 93–112. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
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    • Matory, J. L. “The Many Who Dance in Me: Afro-Atlantic Ontology and the Problem with 'Transnationalism.” In Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and Globalization, edited by Thomas J. Csordas, 231–62. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
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    • Matory, J. “"The Many Who Dance in Me: Afro-Atlantic Ontology and the Problem with ’Transnationalism’".” In Transnational Transcendence, edited by Thomas Csordas, 231–62, 2009.
    • Matory, J. L. “Islands Are Not Isolated: Reconsidering the Roots of Gullah Distinctiveness.” In Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, edited by Dale Rosengarten, Theodore Rosengarten, Enid Schildkrout, and Judith Ann Carney, 232–44. New York: Museum for African Art; Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions.” In Africas of the Americas: Beyond the Search for Origins in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religions, edited by Stephan Palmie, Vol. 33. BOSTON: BRILL, 2008.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Is There Gender in Yorùbá Culture?” In Òrìşà Devotion as World Religion : The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture, edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Terry Rey, 513–58. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
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    • Matory, J. L. “The "New World" Surrounds an Ocean: Theorizing the Live Dialogue between African and African American Cultures.” In Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora, edited by J. L. Yelvington, Kevin A. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press, 2006.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Tradition, Transnationalism and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble.” In Cultural Agency in the Americas, edited by Doris Sommer, 121–45. Duke University Press, 2006.
    • Matory, J Lorand. “The New World Surrounds an Ocean: On the Live Dialogue between African and African American Cultures.” School of American Research, 2006.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Tradition, Transnationalism and Gender in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble.” In Cultural Agency in the Americas, edited by J. L. Sommer, Doris, 121–45. Durham, NC and London, UK: Duke University Press, 2006.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Purity and Transnationalism ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF RITUAL IN THE YORUBA-ATLANTIC DIASPORA.” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 115-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Man in the "City of Women".” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 224-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “The Origins of the Term "Jeje".” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 299-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Geechees and Gullahs THE LOCUS CLASSICUS OF AFRICAN "SURVIVALS" IN THE UNITED STATES.” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 295-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “THE AFRO-ATLANTIC DIALOGUE Conclusion.” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 267-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Candomble's Newest Nation: Brazil.” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 149-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “The Trans-Atlantic Nation RETHINKING NATIONS AND TRANSNATIONALISM.” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 73-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “The English Professors of Brazil ON THE DIASPORIC ROOTS OF THE YORUBA NATION.” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 38-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Para Ingles Ver SEX, SECRECY, AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE YORUBA-ATLANTIC WORLD.” In BLACK ATLANTIC RELIGION: TRADITION, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND MATRIARCHY IN THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN CANDOMBLE, 188-+, 2005.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Sexual Secrets: Candomblé, Brazil, and the Multiple Intimacies of the African Diaspora.” Stanford University Press, 2004.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Gendered Agendas: the Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion.” Blackwell, 2004.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Sexual Secrets: Candomblé, Brazil, and the Multiple Intimacies of the African Diaspora.” edited by Andrew Shryock, 157–90. Stanford University Press, 2004.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Gendered Agendas: the Secrets Scholars Keep about Yoruba-Atlantic Religion.” edited by Sandra Gunning, Tera W. Hunter, and Michele Mitchell, 13–43. Blackwell, 2004.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “El nuevo imperio Yoruba: Textos, migración y el auge transatlántico de la nación lucumí.” Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Juan Marinello and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2001.
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    • Matory, J. L. “El nuevo imperio Yoruba: Textos, migración y el auge transatlántico de la nación lucumí.” In Culturas Encontradas: Cuba y Los Estados Unidos, edited by J. L. Rodríguez, Rafael Hernández and J. L. Coatsworth, John H., 167–87. Havana, Cuba: Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana Juan Marinello, 2001.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas.” Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas, first edition.” In Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, First Edition, edited by K. A. Appiah, 36–44. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Afro-Atlantic Culture: On the Live Dialogue between Africa and the Americas.” In Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, edited by J. L. Gates, Henry Louis and J. L. Appiah, K. Anthony, 1:36–44. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Religions, African, in the Americas.” In In The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by John Middleton. Simon and Schuster, 1997.
    • Matory, J. L. “African and Afro-Caribbean Religions in the United States.” In On Common Ground: World Religions in America, edited by D. Eck. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
    • Matory, J. L. “Religions, African, in the Americas.” In The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by J. L. Middleton, John, 457–60. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of ’Mounting’ in Ọyọ-Yoruba Religion.” In Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa, edited by Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
    • Matory, J. L. “Government by Seduction: History and the Tropes of 'Mounting' in Ọyọ-Yoruba Religion.” In Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Africa, edited by J. L. Comaroff, Jean and J. L. Comaroff, John, 58–84. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Homens Montados: homossexualidade e simbolismo da possessão nas religiões afro-brasileiras (Mounted Men: homosexuality and the symbolism of possession in the Afro-Brazilian religions).” In Escravidão e Invenção Da Liberdade, 215–31. São Paulo, brazil: Editora Brasiliense, 1988.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “"Favorite Professors" Open Letter to the Class of 2009.” Harvard Yearbook Publications, n.d.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “Africa Weds Europe in the Heart of Cuba: Ochún and la Caridad del Cobre.” In Museumsethnologie: Eine Einführung. Theorien - Praktiken - Debatten, edited by Iris Edenheiser and Larissa Förster. Berlin: Reimer, n.d.
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  • Other Articles

    • Matory, Lorand. “"The Fetish Revisited" with J. Lorand Matory Interview with Kristian Petersen.” Edited by Kristian Petersen. Religious Studies News. Journal of Ameriacan Academy of Religion, July 30, 2020.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Stureplan People: Racial Fantasy and Human Reality in Today's Sweden.” Transition, 2015.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Affirmative Scapegoating.” The Harvard Crimson, 2014.
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    • Matory, J. L. “One Duke professor’s Trayvon Martin moment,” July 13, 2013.
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    • Matory, J. L. “What Harvard Has Taught Me,” June 2009.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Obituary: Elliot Percival Skinner (1924-2007).” American Anthropologist, March 2009. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01100_2.x.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “'Favorite Professors' Open Letter to the Class of 2009.” Edited by Elaine Liu. Harvard Yearbook. Harvard Yearbook Publications, 2009.
    • Matory, Lorand. “What do Critics of Israel Have to Fear?” The Harvard Crimson, June 5, 2008.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “Obituary: David Maybury-Lewis: Anthropologist keen to protect the interests of the peoples of central Brazil.” The Guardian, February 5, 2008.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “Orwellian Uses of Free Speech.” Harvard Crimson, November 30, 2007.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “Israel and Censorship at Harvard,” September 14, 2007.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “The Progressives’ Prejudice.” Harvard Crimson. Harvard Crimson, June 7, 2007.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Letter to the Harvard Class of 1982.” In Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1982: Twenty Fifth Anniversary Report, 2007.
    • Matory, J Lorand. “On Rings amid Somersaults There: Poetry, Parody, Parenting.” Two Birches Press, 2007.
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    • Matory, Lorand. “Why I Stood Up: The Case Against Summers.” The Harvard Crimson, June 7, 2006.
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    • Matory, J. L. “The Other African Americans.” Footsteps: African American History and Heritage Magazine, 2001.
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  • Book Reviews

    • Apter, Andrew. “Oduduwa’s Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journa, August 6, 2018.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Witchcraft Intimacy & Trust: Africa in Comparison.” Journal of Religion in Africa, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340016.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Book review of "Yoruba sacred kingship: 'A power like that of the gods.'".” Anthropological Quarterly. George Washington University, Institute for Ethnographic Research, July 1998. https://doi.org/10.2307/3318085.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Revisiting the African Diaspora –book review essay concerning Joseph M. Murphy’s Working the Spirit (1994), George Brandon’s Santeria from Africa to the New World (1993), and Ysamur Flores-Peña and Roberta J. Evanchuk’s Santería Garments and Altars (1994),” 1996.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Review article on Creativity of Power: Essays on Cosmology and Action in African Societies (1989), eds. Ivan Karp and William Arens.” Journal of Religion in Africa. BRILL, May 1, 1993.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Book review of Africanisms in American Culture by JE Holloway.” American Anthropologist. American Anthropological Association, June 1991. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1991.93.2.02a00540.
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  • Digital Publications

    • Matory, J. L. “Hurt People Hurt People.” Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology, June 3, 2015.
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    • Matory, J. L. “Why I Stood Up: The Case Against Summers.” The Harvard Crimson, June 7, 2006.
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  • Reports

    • Matory, J. L. “Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1982 25th Anniversary Report.” Cambridge: Harvard University, 2007.
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    • Matory, J Lorand. “Thirty-fifth Anniversary Report, Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1982.” Alumni Report (1935).  Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Report, Harvard and Radcliffe Class of 1982.  Cambridge, MA: Class Report Office, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, n.d.
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  Artistic Works & Non-Print Media

  • Audio Recordings

    • Transforming Anthropology Podcast. Consultant. 2018
    • "Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America". Consultant. 2016

  • Films

    • Zombies Are Real: The Haitian and American Realities Behind the Myth. Editor. 2016
    • Lucumi Music: Dancing, Singing, and Drumming Black Divinity. Producer. 2015
    • Zombies Are Real . Producer. 2015
    • A conversation with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Producer. 2014
    • Global Affirmative Action in a Neoliberal Age. Producer. 2013
    • Global Affirmative Action in a Neoliberal Age. Producer. 2013
    • Global Affrimation Action . Producer. 2013
    • Human Traffic Past And Present 1 . Producer. 2012
    • Can We Talk? Bridges Between the Humanities and Social Sciences . Producer. 2012
• Teaching & Mentoring
• 

  Recent Courses

  • AAAS 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2023
  • AAAS 269: Black Gods and Monarchs: Priests and Practices of the Afro-Atlantic Religions 2023
  • CULANTH 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2023
  • CULANTH 269: Black Gods and Monarchs: Priests and Practices of the Afro-Atlantic Religions 2023
  • CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2023
  • CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2023
  • CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2023
  • CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2023
  • EDUC 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2023
  • PUBPOL 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2023
  • RELIGION 270: Black Gods and Monarchs: Priests and Practices of the Afro-Atlantic Religions 2023
  • SOCIOL 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2023
  • AAAS 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2022
  • AAAS 347S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2022
  • AAAS 610S: Africa, Cuba, Brazil: Great Powers of the Black Atlantic 2022
  • CULANTH 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2022
  • CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2022
  • CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2022
  • CULANTH 305S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2022
  • CULANTH 347S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2022
  • CULANTH 610S: Africa, Cuba, Brazil: Great Powers of the Black Atlantic 2022
  • CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2022
  • CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2022
  • EDUC 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2022
  • EDUC 347S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2022
  • HISTORY 334S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2022
  • HISTORY 385S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2022
  • HISTORY 610S: Africa, Cuba, Brazil: Great Powers of the Black Atlantic 2022
  • PUBPOL 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2022
  • PUBPOL 350S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2022
  • RIGHTS 305S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2022
  • RIGHTS 347S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2022
  • ROMST 522S: Africa, Cuba, Brazil: Great Powers of the Black Atlantic 2022
  • SOCIOL 173S: The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students 2022
  • SOCIOL 324S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2022
  • SPIRIT 999: DIRECTED STUDY 2022
  • AAAS 347S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2021
  • AAAS 512S: The Fetish: The Role of Things in Spiritual, Economic, and Sexual Life 2021
  • CULANTH 291: Independent Study 2021
  • CULANTH 293: Research Independent Study 2021
  • CULANTH 305S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2021
  • CULANTH 347S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2021
  • CULANTH 511S: The Fetish: The Role of Things in Spiritual, Economic, and Sexual Life 2021
  • CULANTH 791: Special Readings 2021
  • CULANTH 793: Individual Research in Cultural Anthropology 2021
  • EDUC 347S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2021
  • HISTORY 334S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2021
  • HISTORY 385S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2021
  • PUBPOL 350S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2021
  • RELIGION 511S: The Fetish: The Role of Things in Spiritual, Economic, and Sexual Life 2021
  • RIGHTS 305S: White People: In Anthropological Perspective 2021
  • RIGHTS 347S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2021
  • SOCIOL 324S: The University as a Culture: A Survivor's Guide 2021
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LECTURES SEE THE "CURRENT CV" ATTACHED TO THIS WEBPAGE. January 1, 2020  2020
  • "Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America". "The State of Things". WUNC, Public Radio Station of UNC-Chapel Hill. May 12, 2016  2016
  • Discussion of "Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: European Social Theory and the Real-Life 'Fetish'". Faculty Seminar, 6 May 2015. Department of Comparative Studies and the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective. May 6, 2016  2016
  • Black Anthropology: between Continents, between Disciplines, between Media. Interdisciplinary Scholars Lecture Series. University Scholars Program. February 3, 2016  2016
  • Marx, Freud, and the the Man-made Gods of the Yoruba-Atlantic: European Social Theory and the Real-Life "Fetish". Third Annual Oyekan Owomoyela Yoruba Studies Lecture. March 13, 2015  2015
  • The Black Body under Contestation in Brazil. Global Brazil Conference, Panel on "Expressive Cultures/Global Flows: Histories and Bodies in Flux. Brazil Initiative. February 27, 2015  2015
  • Media Stereotypes and Double Consciousness: Telling Your Own Unheard Stories. John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program. December 14, 2014  2014
  • Stigma and Culture: Ethnological Schadenfreude and Last-Place Anxiety in Black America. African Studies Centre. November 25, 2014  2014
  • Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: European Social Theory and the Real-Life "Fetish". Seminar of the "Currents of Faith, Places of History" Joint Research Programme of the Humanities in the European Research Network. November 24, 2014  2014
  • Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: European Social Theory and the Real-Life "Fetish. History Department. November 20, 2014  2014
  • Discussion of "Marx, Freud, and the Man-Made Gods of the Black Atlantic. Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Department of the Study of Religion. November 14, 2014  2014
  • Stigma and Culture: Ethnological Schadenfreude and Last-Place Anxiety in Black America. Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology and Department of the Study of Religion. November 13, 2014  2014
  • Fogo no Ceu: O Significado Augusto das Artes Sagradas de Xango em Nigeria, Cuba, e Brasil/Fire in the Sky: the Meaning and the Majesty of Shango's Sacred Arts in Nigeria, Cuba, and Brazil (a bi-lingual lecture). Forum-Brasil. November 8, 2014  2014
  • Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: the "Fetish" in the Making and the Critique of European Theory. Institut fuer Ethnologie. November 6, 2014  2014
  • Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: the Lessons of the Real-Life "Fetish" for European Theory. Colloquium on African Art. Art History Institute. October 28, 2014  2014
  • Theorizing "Culture" between Spaces: the Afro-Atlantic Example. Keynote Address at the International Research Training Group "Between Spaces". A Collaboration between the Freie Universitaet Berlin and the Colegio de Mexico. September 3, 2014  2014
  • Fuego en el Cielo: el significado augusto de las artes sagradas de Chango en Nigeria, Cuba y Brasil. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. July 10, 2014  2014
  • Hegel, Marx y los dioses que hacen los hombres en el Atlantico negro (el verdadero "fetiche" no visto por la teoria social europea. Keynote Address at the Cologuio Internacional: el Caribe que Nos Une at the Festival del Caribe. Casa del Caribe. July 7, 2014  2014
  • La idea de la religion afro-atlantica (Keynote Address). Curso Taller Internacional de Religiosidad Popular at the Festival de Caribe. Casa del Caribe. July 4, 2014  2014
  • The Black Atlantic from a Decolonial Perspective--A Conversation with J. Lorand Matory. Fachschaftinitiative des Lateinamerika-Insituts. Freie Universitaet Berlin. June 24, 2014  2014
  • "Ask Me No Questions": Embodied Knowledge and Ethnographic Objectivism. Lateinamerika-Institut. June 23, 2014  2014
  • Fire in the Sky: the Meaning and the Majesty of Shango's Sacred Arts in Nigeria, Cuba, and Brazil. Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft. June 19, 2014  2014
  • Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety and Ethnological Schadenfreude in Black America. Institut fuer Ethnologie. May 6, 2014  2014
  • Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: the Lessons of the Real-Life "Fetish" for European Theory. James Marsh Professor-at-Large Inaugural Lecture. University of Vermont. April 14, 2014  2014
  • Stigma and Culture: Global Migrations and the Crisis of Identity in Black America. Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology and the Forum for African Studies. February 27, 2014  2014
  • Marx, Freud, and the Gods People Make in West Africa: the Lessons of the Real-Life "Fetish" for European Theory. Research Seminar in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology. Stockholm University. February 26, 2014  2014
  • The African Gods of Latin America: the Real-Life "Fetish" in the Making, and the Critique, of European Theory. Humboldt Prize Honorary Lecture. Lateinamerika-Institut. February 11, 2014  2014
  • I Am the Other: Alienation, Empathy and Anthropology". Distinguished Alumni Lecture. The Maret School. November 20, 2013  2013
  • Becoming an Anthropologist. John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program, Duke University. August 16, 2013  2013
  • Fire in the Sky: the Meaning and Majesty of Shango's Sacred Arts in Nigeria, Cuba and Brazil. Keynote Address at the Annual Shango Festival. Oytounji Village. July 27, 2013  2013
  • Black Studies: Choices, Challenges and Triumphs. Division of the Humanities and Arts and the Black Studies Program. April 22, 2013  2013
  • The 'Fetish' in Real Time: On the Positionality of Theory, or Value at the Crossroads.. Roy A. Rappaport Distinguished Lecture in the Anthropology of Religion. Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Biennial Meeting. April 13, 2013  2013
  • Stigma and Culture: Global Migrations and the Crisis of Identity in Black America. Plenary Lecture at "Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space, an International Conference. DePaul University. April 12, 2013  2013
  • Interwoven Histories: Luxury Cloths of Atlantic Africa. John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program. January 26, 2013  2013
  • Interwoven Histories: Luxury Cloths of Atlantic Africa. Gallery Talk. Lilly Library. November 27, 2012  2012
  • “Global Migrations and the Crisis of Identity in Black America”. Bertha Maxwell-Roddy Distinguished Africana Lecture. University of North Carolina at Charlotte. October 15, 2012  2012
  • “Putting American Slavery and Freedom in Their Place: A Cross-Cultural Perspective”. John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program, Duke University. August 17, 2012  2012
  • “Popular Democracy and Racial Dictatorship: 19th-Century US Slavery in Historical Perspective”. Keynote and Inaugural Address of the yearlong program. John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program. August 13, 2012  2012
  • “Survival/Creolization/Dialogue: How Tropes Remake the African Diaspora” (2012). Keynote Address to the “Crossroads of the World: Transatlantic Interrelations in the Caribbean. Keynote Address to the "Crossroads of the World: Transatlantic Interrelations in the Caribbean" Conference. July 2, 2012  2012
  • “The Black Atlantic: A Translocal Civilization”. John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program. May 12, 2012  2012
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Ethnicity, Class Identity, and Shame in Black America. Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Duke University. November 8, 2011  2011
  • I Am the Other: the Making of an Anthropologist. Chatauqua: a Faculty Lecture Series for First-Years. November 7, 2011  2011
  • On the 'Fetish' the Black Atlantic Making of Gods and Men. Provost's Lecture. April 21, 2011  2011
  • Yoruba-Atlantic Ethnicity: ON the Essential Indeterminacy of Ethnic Boundaries. Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Ethnicity in Africa. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. April 2, 2011  2011
  • Sacred Double Consciousness: the Signs of Citizenship and of Spirit Possession in the Afro-Atlantic World. Distinguished Lecture. Association for Africanist Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. November 19, 2010  2010
  • Do Affluent Black Kids Feel They Have to Act 'Ghetto'? Do Poor White Kids Just Want to Disappear?. Center for Race Relations. October 28, 2010  2010
  • Trends and Prospects in African and African-Diaspora Studies. A Public Forum on "The Future of Africana Studies". University of Virginia. October 21, 2010  2010
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Ethnicity and Shame in the Global Black Bourgeoisie. Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften. October 14, 2010  2010
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Ethnicity, Hope and Shame in the Global Black Bourgeoisie. September 27, 2010  2010
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Racial Stigma, Ethnicity, and the Hopes of the Global Black Bourgeoisie. Provost's Office, Duke University. September 27, 2010  2010
  • Learning from Embarrassment: On Being an Africanist Anthropologist. "Down to Earth: Making Community Connections" Series. Center for Multicultural Affairs, Duke University. September 8, 2010  2010
  • The Plantation Cross-Culturally: the Questions Scholars Ask, and How We Try to Answer Them. Annual Keynote and Inaugural Address. John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program, Duke University. July 10, 2010  2010
  • A Diaspora Africana--na Teoria e na Pratica. Keynote Address at "A circulacao de Objetos, Corpos e Espritos: Processos de Ojbectivacao e Subectivacao nos Movimentos Religiosos entre Africa e as Americas. Centro em Rede de Investigacao em Antropologia--Nucleo de Antropologia da Religiao and Instituto de Ciencias Sociais. June 25, 2010  2010
  • Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions. Keynote Address to conference on "States of Freedom, Freedom of States". University of the West Indies. June 16, 2010  2010
  • Anthropology, Aspiration, and Poety. Commencement Address. W. G. Pearson GT Magnet Elementary School. June 10, 2010  2010
  • Eniitan: 'Children of History'. Address to the Class of 2010. Department of African and African American Studies. May 14, 2010  2010
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Racial Stigma, Ethnicity, and the Hopes of the Global Black Bourgeoisie. Annual Langford Lectureship. Provost's Office, Duke University. March 16, 2010  2010
  • Three Questions about Race. Keynote Address to the Common Ground Retreat. Center for Race Relations. February 26, 2010  2010
  • Vodou and Other African-Inspired Religions. February 12, 2010  2010
  • Vodou and Other African-Inspired Religions. Online Office Hours with J. Lorand Matory on African-Inspired Religions. Duke University. February 12, 2010  2010
  • The Cultural Construction of Dis-ease and Healing: An Afro-Atlantic Perspective. Duke Clinical Research Institute. January 21, 2010  2010
  • Possessed: People Are Not Always Who You Think They Are. Duke Durham School Days (a mini-immersion to promote the desire to attend college among eighth-graders). Office of Community Affairs, Duke University. October 16, 2009  2009
  • Sacred Double Consciousness: the Signs of Citizenship and of Spirit Possession in the Afro-Atlantic World. Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul University. May 6, 2009  2009
  • The African Diaspora: in Theory and in Practice. Keynote Address, African and African Diaspora Studies Workshop . Wesleyan University. April 24, 2009  2009
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Racial Stigma, Ethnicity, and the Hidden Social Curriculum of the University. Program in African and African-American Studies. February 26, 2009  2009
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Racial Stigma, Ethnicity, and the Hidden Social Curriculum of the University. African and African-American Studies Program and Department of Anthropology/Sociology. February 19, 2009  2009
  • Of the Race but above the Race: Racial Stigma, Ethnicity, and the Hidden Social Curriculum of the University. February 19, 2009  2009
  • Contemporary Challenges to Afro-Brazilian Religions. Brazil Studies Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard Universitiy. February 12, 2009  2009
  • The African Diaspora in Theory and in Practice. Series on "Power and the Black Experience". School of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. February 11, 2009  2009
  • The Other African Americans: Racial Stigma, Ethnicity, and the Hidden Curriculum of the University. The Americas Series (Distinguished Scholars of Race in the Americas). Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and Program in American Studies, Indiana University. January 22, 2009  2009
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Faculty Adviser. Association of Black Harvard Women. January 15, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Chair : Committee in the M.A. in the Humanities Program. November 24, 2013  2013
  • Curator : Public Education. Exhibition of African Luxury Cloths. November 24, 2013  2013
  • member : State Department Cultural Property Advisory Committee. March 24, 2012  2012
  • Discussant of scholarly papers : Center for Middle Eastern Studies Alumni Reunion. January 15, 2009  2009
  • Executive Director : Community Outreach. 2009  2009
  • Discussant of scholarly papers : Panel at the American Anthropological Association meetings. November 22, 2008  2008
  • Discussant of scholarly papers : Panel at the American Anthropological Association meetings. November 19, 2008  2008
  • Panelist : Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. September 11, 2008  2008
  • Committee-member and Discussion-leader : Freshman Dean's Office. September 9, 2008  2008
  • Chair and Organizer : Afro-Atlantic Religions Lecture and Film Series. January 15, 2008  2008
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  Service to Duke

  • Africa Initiative. November 30, 2012  2012
  • AAAS Department Tenure Committee. February 17, 2012  2012
  • CAAAR Fall 2011 Lecture Series. February 17, 2012  2012
  • Organizer. Curriculum Innovations. November 22, 2011 - November 22, 2011  2011
  • Tenure and Promotion Committee. June 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011  2011
  • Africa Initiative Steering Committee. March 24, 2011  2011
  • Title IX Harassment and Adjudication Advisory Comm.. March 24, 2011 - July 1, 2013  2011 - 2013
  • Department of Cultural Anthropology. October 1, 2010  2010
  • Department of African and African American Studies. July 1, 2009 - July 1, 2010  2009 - 2010
  • Director. Center for African and African American Research. July 1, 2009  2009
  • Chair, Department of African and African American Studies. January 15, 2009  2009

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