Stephen Selka

Assistant Professor of African American and African American Studies and American Studies
Alma Mater: PhD, University at Albany, SUNY, 2003

Email: sselka@indiana.edu
Phone: (812) 855-5610
Office: Memorial East M30

Courses:

Afro-Brazilian Identity; Global Tourism; Qualitative Research Methods

Research:

Religion, identity, and politics; identity and social movements; Brazil and the U.S.; diaspora studies; transnational tourism; urban anthropology

Recent Publications:

  1. Religion and the Politics of Ethnic Identity in Bahia, Brazil, University Press of Florida, 2007
  2. “Mediated Authenticity: Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Brazilian Candomblé, Nova Religio, 11:1, pp. 5-30, 2007
  3. “Ethnoreligious Identity Politics in Bahia, Brazil,” Latin American Perspectives, 32:1, 72-94, 2004