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Livio Sansone

Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Livio Sansone (Palermo, Italy, 1956) got his PhD from the University of Amsterdam (1992). Sansone, in Brazil since 1992, is full professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia. He is the head of the Factory of Ideas Program – an advanced international course in ethnic and African studies – and coordinates the Digital Museum Afro-Brazilian Heritage. His best-known book in English is Blackness Without Ethnicity. Creating Race in Brazil (New York: Palgrave, 2003). Recent articles in English are available in the journals Vibrant, Codesria Bulletin, Historia, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos, Berose Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports and Oxford Research Encyclopedia for African History. His most recent books are La Galassia Lombroso, l’ Africa e l’ America Latina (2022, Laterza, Italy) and Field Station Bahia. Brazil in the work of Lorenzo Dow Turner E. Franklin Frazier, Frances and Melville Herskovits – 1935-1967 (2023, Brill, Leiden) - published in Portuguese in 2022 and 2023 by EDUNICAMP. Over the last few years his research has been on the circulation of ideas of race and emancipation between Southern Europe, Africa and Latin America. He is member of the Africa Multiple Program of the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
https://orcid.org/0000- 0003-3837-6049. online CV: https://lattes.cnpq.br/1108123149450043

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