Celina de Sá

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/

Assistant Professor| University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology

Position

Assistant Professor

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/anthropology/

Assistant Professor, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Anthropology

Celina de Sá is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology with an affiliation in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her PhD with distinction at the University of Pennsylvania in Africana Studies and Anthropology. Her research focuses on the legacies of racial formation, colonialism, and the slave trade in urban francophone West Africa and beyond. Through looking at social network and performance communities, she investigates how contemporary African contexts and agents recast, critique, and engage with the Black Atlantic. She is currently developing her first book project, Diaspora Without Displacement: Race, Performance, and Belonging in West Africa, that looks at the Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira, as a window into the contemporary dynamics of both racial self-making and coloniality in Dakar, Senegal.

Phone	(512) 471-4206
Email	anthro@utexas.edu

The 2023-2024 AnthroGuide is the last print version. Edits for graduate programs are due July 31, 2023.

Celina de Sá