Name: Denise Silva
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1999
M.A., U. Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1991

Field of Expertise: Silva is an expert on social theory, critical race theory, race politics, cultural studies, global studies, and state and social movements.

Region of Interest: Brazil, Caribbean, Cuba, U.S.

Media Interview Topics: Denise Silva can provide commentary on globalization, race and criminalization.

Selected Publications:

(Forthcoming) Homo Modernus: Raciality and the Production of the Global/Historical Consciousness . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press.

(Forthcoming) " Á Brasileira : Raciality and the Offspring of a Productive Desire," Revista Estudos Feministas

" Out of Africa? Umbanda and the 'Ordering' of the Modern Brazilian Space." In Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the Americas, edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming.