John Francis Collins

Possui doutorado em Ethnology - University of Michigan (2003). Atualmente é Associate Professor no Department of Anthropology do Queens College e no Doctoral Program in Anthropology no The Graduate Center, ambos vinculados à City University of New York (CUNY). Tem experiência na área de Antropologia, com interesses de pesquisa nos seguintes temas: Brazil, Andes, United States; historical ethnography; semiotics and post-interpretive anthropology; cultural heritage; urbanism; bureaucracy and nationalism; race; gender and sexuality; displacement; intellectual property; corporeality and the senses; human-animal relations and environmental change; posthumanism and speculative realism.

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Acadêmico

Formação acadêmica

Doutorado em Ethnology

1999 - 2003

University Of Michigan
Título: --

Mestrado em Anthropology

1994 - 1996

University Of Michigan
Título: --,Ano de Obtenção: 1996

Graduação em B.A. cum laude with Distinction in Comparative Literature

1984 - 1987

Yale College

Idiomas

Espanhol

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Português

Compreende Bem, Fala Bem, Lê Bem, Escreve Bem.

Francês

Compreende Razoavelmente, Fala Razoavelmente, Lê Razoavelmente, Escreve Razoavelmente.

Quichua

Compreende Pouco, Fala Pouco, Lê Pouco, Escreve Pouco.

Áreas de atuação

Grande área: Ciências Humanas / Área: Antropologia.

Participação em eventos

American Anthropological Association Meetings.Robbing Against the Grain: New Approaches to Power in Latin America. 2016. (Encontro).

American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting.Ticks, Hunters, and the Shadow of the McMansion: Ethics of Capture in New Jersey?s Central Highlands. 2016. (Encontro).

American Ethnological Society Spring Meeting.What is it that Data Do? Ethnographic Paths into Race, Violence, and the Brazilian State. 2016. (Encontro).

Columbia University Americas South Seminar.Rainy Days and Precious Things: Figuring Tangibility in a Brazilian Cultural Heritage Zone. 2016. (Seminário).

Global Brazil Conference. Data and Image. 2016. (Congresso).

Invited paper presented at Connecticut College.On Saints and Ruins in the Cradle of Brazil. 2016. (Outra).

Invited paper presented at Franklin & Marshall College.What Do Data Do? Ethnographic Paths into Race, Violence, and the Brazilian State. 2016. (Outra).

Invited paper presented at Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM).Problemas históricas de legado y estirpe: Hacia una genealogia brasileña de la raza como hermeneútica de la profundidad. 2016. (Outra).

IV International Congress of Latin American Anthropology. Lo moral y lo público entre las prostitutas y las abuelitas: Memoria, moralidad, y las negociaciones del espacio en el Centro Histórico de Salvador, Bahia. 2015. (Congresso).

Symposium at Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.A Bahian Biocultural Milieu: Post-War Salvador and the Work of Professor Thales de Azevedo. 2015. (Simpósio).

Orientou

Paloma Rodrigo

---; Início: 2016; Tese (Doutorado em Doctoral Program in Anthropology) - City University of New York; (Orientador);

Andreina Torres

---; Início: 2016; Tese (Doutorado em Doctoral Program in Anthropology) - City University of New York; (Orientador);

Samuel Novacich

--; Início: 2016; Tese (Doutorado em Doctoral Program in Anthropology) - City University of New York; (Orientador);

Christopher Parisano

---; Início: 2016; Tese (Doutorado em Doctoral Program in Anthropology) - City University of New York; (Orientador);

Produções bibliográficas

COLLINS, J. F. . Brazil?s Black Mecca: Race, Justice and Entanglements of Tradition in Bahia. Latin American Research Review , v. 51, p. 266-280, 2016.
ROZENTAL, SANDRA ; COLLINS, JOHN F. ; RAMSEY, JASON . Matters of Patrimony: Anthropological Theory and the Materiality of Replication in Contemporary Latin America. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology , v. 21, p. 7-18, 2016.
COLLINS, JOHN F. . Policing's Productive Folds: Secretism and Authenticity in Brazilian Cultural Heritage. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology , v. 19, p. 473-501, 2014.
COLLINS, J. F. . State-Sponsored Indemnification, the Materiality of Money, and the Meanings of Community in Salvador, Brazil?s Pelourinho Cultural Heritage Center.. Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies , v. 17, p. --, 2013.
COLLINS, JOHN . Reconstructing the -Cradle of Brazil-: The Detachability of Morality and the Nature of Cultural Labor in Salvador, Bahia's Pelourinho World Heritage Site. International Journal of Cultural Property , v. 19, p. 423-452, 2012.
COLLINS, JOHN . Melted gold and national bodies: The hermeneutics of depth and the value of history in Brazilian racial politics. American Ethnologist , v. 38, p. 683-700, 2011.
COLLINS, J. F. . Culture, Content, and the Enclosure of Human Being: UNESCO?s ?Intangible? Heritage in the New Millennium.. Radical History Review , v. 109, p. 121-135, 2011.
COLLINS, J. F. . Public Health, Patronage and National Culture: The Resuscitation and Commodification of Community Origins in Neoliberal Brazil. CRITIQUE OF ANTHROPOLOGY , v. 28, p. 237-255, 2008.
COLLINS, J. F. . A razão barroca do patrimônio baiano. Revista de Antropologia , v. 51, p. 29-73, 2008.
COLLINS, JOHN . -BUT WHAT IF I SHOULD NEED TO DEFECATE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, MADAME?-: Empire, Redemption, and the -Tradition of the Oppressed- in a Brazilian World Heritage Site. Cultural Anthropology , v. 23, p. 279-328, 2008.
COLLINS, JOHN . The Sounds of Tradition: Arbitrariness and Agency in a Brazilian Cultural Heritage Center. Ethnos , v. 72, p. 383-407, 2007.
COLLINS, J. F. . Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy.. 1. ed. Duke University Press, 2015.
COLLINS, J. F. ; NASCIMENTO, E. L. ; WINTER, A. . Abdias Nascimento: Activist, Artist, Author. 1. ed. , 2014.
COLLINS, J. F. . Ruins, Redemption and Brazil?s Imperial Exception.. In: Ann Laura Stoler. (Org.). Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. 1ed.Durham: Duke University Press, 2013, v. , p. 162-193.
COLLINS, J. F. . Nation-State Consolidation and Cultural Patrimony.. In: Mauricio Font and Laura Randall. (Org.). The Brazilian State: Paths and Prospects of Dirigisme and Liberalization. 1ed.Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011, v. , p. 219-246.
COLLINS, J. F. . ?X Marks the Future of Brazil?: Racial Politics, Bedeviling Mixtures and Protestant Ethics in a Brazilian Cultural Heritage Center.. In: Andrew Shryock. (Org.). Off Stage/On Display: Intimacies and Ethnographies in the Age of Public Culture.. 1ed.Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004, v. , p. 191-224.
COLLINS, J. F. ; BIONDI, K. . Sharing This Walk: An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil.. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. (Tradução/Livro).

Prêmios

2016

Anthony Leeds Prize for Urban Ethnography to Revolt of the Saints, SUNTA Section of the American Anthropological Association.

2016

National Park Service Grant for an ethnography of Great Falls National Historical Site, Paterson, New Jersey.

2014

Fellowship, Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change, CUNY Graduate Center.

Histórico profissional

Endereço profissional

Queens College, Department of Anthropology. , 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Powdermaker Hall 314, Flushing, 11367 - New York, - Estados Unidos, Telefone: (718) 9972895

Experiência profissional

2003 - Atual

Queens College

Vínculo: , Enquadramento Funcional: Associate Professor

Atividades

01/2012
Direção e administração, Program in Latin American and Latino Studies, .,Cargo ou função, Director.
01/2003
Ensino, Anthropology, Nível: Graduação,Disciplinas ministradas, Anthropology and History; Semiotics and Post-Interpretive Anthropology; Race and Ethnicity; Diaspora and the Modern/Black Atlantic; Ethnography and the Modern Nation-State; Literature and Anthropological Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Ritual and Religion, Bureaucracy Property Theories of Materiality and Immateriality; Human-Animal Relations; Memory; Slavery and Liberalism; Ethnographic Methods; Urban Anthropology; National Histories in Latin America.

2003 - Atual

CUNY Graduate Center

Vínculo: Celetista, Enquadramento Funcional: Associate Professor

Atividades

01/2003
Ensino, Anthropology, Nível: Pós-Graduação,Disciplinas ministradas, Anthropology and History; Semiotics and Post-Interpretive Anthropology; Race and Ethnicity; Diaspora and the Modern/Black Atlantic; Ethnography and the Modern Nation-State; Literature and Anthropological Theory; Gender and Sexuality; Ritual and Religion, Bureaucracy Property Theories of Materiality and Immateriality; Human-Animal Relations; Memory; Slavery and Liberalism; Ethnographic Methods; Urban Anthropology; National Histories in Latin America.