Department of SOC/ANT/CRJ - Dr. Judy V. Rosenthal
Degrees Earned:
Ph.D. and M.A., Anthropology, Cornell University; Licence and Maîtrise, University of Paris VIII
Teaching Interests:
Cultural Anthropology, social theory, African cultures, comparative gender and sexuality studies, religion and ritual, anthropological theory, origins of racism
Research Interests:
Vodu communities in W. Africa, African diaspora in France, gender and sexuality in cross-cultural comparison
Recent Publications:
"Foreign Spirits Inside the Family—Vodu Home on the ex-Slave Coast" in Women on the Verge of Home. Ed. Bilinda Straight. In Press. SUNY. 2004
"Trance Against the State" in Transforming States . Ed. Carol Greenhouse , Duke University Press. pp. 317-351. 2002
“The Unheimlich Man-Oeuvre” with Adam Lutzker in American Ethnologist 28(4):909-923 2001
"Foreign Tongues and Domestic Bodies: Gendered Cultural Regions and Regionalized Cultural Flows" in Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa . Ed. Maria Grosz-Ngate and Omari Kokole. Routledge. pp. 183-1998
Possession, Ecstasy, and Law in Ewe Voodoo . University Press of Virginia . 1998
Recent Presentations:
2004 “La construction de la personne dans la communauté Gorovodu, » Hour lecture in French for the Association Ahuefa International France. Paris.
2003 “Voodoo Economics,” for a panel on “African Citizenship in Exile, at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago.
2003 « Critique de théories feministes par rapport au changement politique: comment lire les derniers livres de Françoise Heritier et Elizabeth Badinter ? » Hour lecture in French for the Association Retravailler. Paris.
2002 “ Slave Spirits in the Family--North to South Diaspora on the ex- Slave Coast .” Conference on The Family in Africa and the African Diaspora, in Salamanca , Spain.
2002 “Gorovodu and Mama Tchamba—Spirit Possessions of Modernity in Everyday Life.” Conference on Globalisation and Changing Questions of Ownership in Culture and Society, at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
2002 « Les théories de Marcel Mauss : le don et la personne. » Hour lecture in French for the Seminar on Identities and Currencies led by Maurice Olender at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Paris.