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J. Lorand Matory CV

Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor of Cultural Anthropology
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Selected Presentations & Appearances


FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LECTURES SEE THE "CURRENT CV" ATTACHED TO THIS WEBPAGE · January 1, 2020 Invited Talk
"Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America" - "The State of Things" · May 12, 2016 Broadcast Appearance WUNC, Public Radio Station of UNC-Chapel Hill, WUNC, Durham, NC

Radio talk-show host Frank Stasio interviews J. Lorand Matory about his 2015 book, Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America. http://wunc.org/post/stigma-and-culture-examines-cultural-class-black-populations#stream/0

Discussion of "Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make: European Social Theory and the Real-Life 'Fetish'" - Faculty Seminar, 6 May 2015 · May 6, 2016 Invited Talk Department of Comparative Studies and the Diversity and Identity Studies Collective, Ohio State University

Discussion of my book manuscript on the biographical sources of Marx's and Freud's put-down of African and African-inspired religion and the actual, socially comprehensible logic of value and agency that African and African-inspired priests invest in their avowedly human-made gods.

Black Anthropology: between Continents, between Disciplines, between Media - Interdisciplinary Scholars Lecture Series · February 3, 2016 Invited Talk University Scholars Program, Duke University

Lecture to undergraduates and graduate students committed to interdisciplinarity on the role of archival and oral-historical research, film, editorials, dance, memoir, and dance in my anthropology of the Afro-Atlantic world.

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 Invited Talk Ohio State University

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Faculty Adviser - Association of Black Harvard Women · January 15, 2008 Community Outreach Community Service

Service to the Profession


Chair : Committee in the M.A. in the Humanities Program · November 24, 2013 Editorial Activities Duke University
Curator : Public Education - Exhibition of African Luxury Cloths · November 24, 2013 Editorial Activities Lilly Library

Papers Refereed ; Interwoven Histories: Luxury Cloths of Atlantic Africa is an exhibition that I curated at Lilly Library in order to inform undergraduates and the general public about the cosmopolitanness, the creativity, and the culture-specific meanings of African material culture. I delivered two gallery talks in connection with this exhibition.

member : State Department Cultural Property Advisory Committee · March 24, 2012 Editorial Activities
Discussant of scholarly papers : Center for Middle Eastern Studies Alumni Reunion · January 15, 2009 Editorial Activities CMES, Harvard University
Executive Director : Community Outreach · 2009 Editorial Activities John Hope Franklin Young Scholars Program, Duke University

Service to Duke


Africa Initiative (School) · November 30, 2012 Committee Service Provost's Office
CAAAR Fall 2011 Lecture Series (School) · February 17, 2012 Committee Service Center for African and African American Research
AAAS Department Tenure Committee (School) · February 17, 2012 Committee Service
Organizer . Curriculum Innovations · November 22, 2011 - November 22, 2011 Curriculum Innovations AAAS 152.01

Curriculum Innovations ; I created a course that featured not only a set of readings and classroom discussions about the Afro-Atlantic religions but also ritual demonstrations by priests in which students could participate. Instead of writing final papers, students populated an online museum exhibition of the Center's Afro-Atlantic Sacred Arts Collection based upon their classroom learning, their interviews and participant-observation with priests of four Afro-Atlantic religions, and their independent research.

Tenure and Promotion Committee (Department) · June 1, 2011 - December 31, 2011 Committee Service Department of African and African American Studies