Jorge Mauricio Herrera Acuña

Mauricio Acuña holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (2017), a PhD in Literature and Latin American Studies from Princeton University (2021) and a Post-Doctorate from the University of Virginia (2022). Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College. He is author of "A ginga da nação: intelectuais na capoeira e capoeiristas intelectuais (1930-1969)" (Honorable mention of the Silvio Romero Prize, IPHAN, for dissertation). He organized with Luís Felipe Hirano and Bernardo Machado "Social markers of differences: flows, transits and intersections". Mauricio Acuña has experience in contemporary literatures and cultures of the African diaspora in the Americas, with an emphasis on Brazil. Among his research interests are the poetics, performances and aesthetics of Afro-descendant artists and intellectuals, race relations, festivals and capoeira. He has published articles in Luso-Brazilian Review, Revista Casa de las Américas, Sociologia Antropologia, Trilhos and Proa, a magazine of anthropology and art. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)