Yomi Folaranmi
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Yomi Folaranmi studies the politics (and poetics) of representation and relation across the Atlantic from the 1800s. His current research takes Afro-Brazilian religious and visual culture as a point of departure to explore the cultural and artistic entanglements between Africa, Latin America, and Europe. He is broadly interested in processes of hybridity and in global modernisms in art and literature, and their connections with the history of anthropology.
Before coming to Harvard, he read for a BA (with Italian) and an MA in Comparative Literature at University College London, and for an MSc in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford.