Karen Richman
Director of Academic Programs, Institute for Latino Studies
(PhD, University of Virginia, 1992)
230 McKenna Hall
574-631-8146
email: krichman@nd.edu
http://latinostudies.nd.edu/about/richman_bio.php
Geographic focus: Mexico, the Caribbean (Haiti), and the United States.
Thematic interests: Religion, migration, transnationalism, performance, gender, production and consumption.
Current research: Migration and religious conversion and an ethnographic biography of a Mexican immigrant woman.
Selected publications:
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Male Migration, Female Perdition: Narratives of Economic and Reproductive Impotence in a Haitian Transnational Community,” Anthropologica 54, 2 (2012)
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“Religion at the Epicenter: Agency and Affiliation in Léogâne After the Earthquake,” Studies in Religion 41 (June 2012), a special issue Richman coedited with Terry Rey
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“The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century,” in Maarit Forde and Diana Paton, eds., Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (Duke University Press, 2012)
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“The Somatics of Syncretism: Tying Body and Soul in Haitian Religion,” (with Terry Rey) Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 39, 3 (2010)
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Migration and Vodou (New Diasporas Series of the University Press of Florida, 2005)
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“Innocent Imitations? Mimesis and Alterity in Haitian Vodou Art, Tourism and Anthropology,” Ethnohistory (2008)
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“‘Call us Vote People’: Citizenship, Migration and Transnational Politics in Haitian and Mexican Locations” in Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States, D. Reed-Danahay and C. Brettell, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
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“Peasants, Migrants and the Discovery of African Traditions: Ritual and Social Change in Lowland Haiti, ” Journal of Religion in Africa (2007)
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“Simplemente Maria: Naming Workers, Placing People and the Production of Hospitality,” Review of International American Studies (2007)
