MMDW Class of 2025
The Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research (ALARI), Harvard University, has selected the 2025 Class for the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies.
The fifteen members of the 2025 edition of the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop were selected from a pool of one hundred and three applicants from Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Germany, Haiti, Italy, Mexico. Their work on variety of topics and time periods reflects the richness of Afro-Latin American Studies, with contributions from the fields of Anthropology, Art History, Communication, Cultural Studies, Education, Ethnography, Geography, History, Humanities, Law, Music, Political Sciences, Public Health.
The 2025 Class of the Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop includes:
“Debates e teorizações sobre a sexualidade na obra de rappers brasileiras.”
“Framing the Queloides Project in Spain.”
- “Terra e Mineração em uma Ilha de Vera Cruz-Bahia.”
“Ciência, saúde e escravidão: produção e circulação dos conhecimentos afro-latino-americanos sobre a varíola e a vacina.”
“Topography of Trauma Transformation: A Co-creative Theory of Afrodescendant Community Art in Cartagena (Colombia) and Salvador (Brazil).”
“The Coupling of Finca Traditional and Black Farmers to Global Bulk Cocoa Production.”
“Pluralismo jurídico: manifestación de derecho consuetudinario.”
“”Entre brancos, negros e pardos qual é o grupo mais criminoso?”: Entre hegemonia, disputas e consenso: os debates raciais e o Boletim Policial como veículo de ideias da polícia.”
“Histórias do vestir de Catharina Mina: moda e trajetórias negras e femininas em diáspora no Brasil oitocentista.”
“Fé, Trabalho e Conflito: As múltiplas dimensões do religioso no fazer carnavalesco.”
“Racial Stigmas.”
“Popular Constitutionalism and Religious War: The church and state conflict as a site for race-making.”
“A fé que canta e dança: reativando ecologias de conexões parciais entre congado, candomblé em contextos de racismo ambiental e fim de mundos.”
“Ancestral Warriors: Native and Afro-Andean Discourses on Conquest.