Meet the Faculty

Stephen Selka

Assistant Professor, African American and African American Studies and American Studies
Adjunct Professor, Departmen of Religious Studies

Education

Ph.D. University at Albany, SUNY, 2003

Contact Information

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

Research Interests

Religion, identity, and politics
Identity and social movements
Brazil and the U.S.
Diaspora studies
Transnational tourism
Urban anthropologY

Courses Recently Taught

Afro-Brazilian Identity
Global Tourism
Qualitative Research Methods
African American and African Protest Strategies

Recent Publications

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