Andrea S. Allen

Assistant Professor
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies Jackman Humanities Building 170 St. George Street, Room 230H Toronto, ON, M5R 2M8

Campus

Cross-Appointments

Department of Anthropology

Areas of Interest

Professor Allen is currently working on a second book project about LGBT evangelical Brazilians, religious identity, and sexual subjectivity.

Biography

Andrea S. Allen is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her research has addressed matters of race, sexuality, gender, violence, and religion in Brazil and the African Diaspora. Through a focus on LGBTQ Brazilians, especially Afro-Brazilian lesbian women, her work explores the effects of marginalization from an embodied perspective. In interrogating the everyday, her research prioritizes lived experiences as an essential locus of inquiry when contemplating the contradictions and dissonances of human existence. She has conducted ethnographic research related to the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, same-sex sexuality, and gender. Her first book Violence and Desire in Brazilian Lesbian Relationships (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) focused on the experiences of lesbian women in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Education

PhD