Women's Studies in Religion Program (WSRP)

Guzman Presenting

Video: Chimera Geographies: Black Spiritual Borderland Performances of the Caribbean

January 1, 2024

In this project, Elena Guzman explored the way Black women and non-binary people through the Caribbean and its diaspora use spiritual and ritual performance within African Diasporic Religions, including Santeria, Haitian Vodou, Puerto Rican Espiritismo, 21 Divisions, and Obeah, as a means to forge interstitial geographies of the African diaspora. Elena Guzman is an Afro-Boricua filmmaker, educator, and scholar raised in the Bronx with deep roots in the LES. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Cornell University and is an Assistant Professor in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department and Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. Her manuscript, "Chimera Geographies: Black Feminist Borderland Performances," focuses on the way Black women and non-binary people throughout the African diaspora use ritual performance in African diaspora religion as a means to forge Black feminist borderlands through spiritual crossings. Her work has been published in Feminist Anthropology, NACLA, and Cultural Anthropology’s Screening Room.

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Why We Can’t Look Away from Black Horror

October 7, 2022
Kinitra D. Brooks, Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and African-American Religions, talks about what makes her a fan of Black horror and how to recognize films that do the genre justice.
2021-22 WSRP Research Associate Heather White

Research Associate Heather White on 'Hosting the Counterculture'

March 4, 2022
Heather White, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion and Gender and Queer Studies at HDS and a Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate for 2021–22, describes her year-long research project at the WSRP, "Hosting the Counterculture: Histories of Queer Episcopal New York."
Alicia Izharuddin

Contact Zones

October 7, 2019

Alicia Izharuddin, Visiting Senior Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Islam and 2019-20 Women's Studies in Religion Program Research Associate, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 4, 2019.... Read more about Contact Zones

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