Deborah A. Thomas

Graduate Group Chair, Professor, Anthropology

Deborah.Thomas@sas.upenn.edu

Phone:

215 746 0435

Education:

Ph.D. New York University 2000

Research Interests:

Nationalism and Alternative Sovereignties; Globalization; Race and Gender; Labor Migration; Transnationalism and Diaspora; Cultural Politics; Performance; Violence and the Transformation of Space; Culture and Political Economy; Popular Culture; Caribbean.

Office Address:

University Museum Room 335

Appointments:

Anthropology Department Faculty; Secondary Appointment, Graduate School of Education; Affiliated Faculty, Africana Studies; Graduate Group Member, Department of English.

Publications:

Film, BAD FRIDAY: RASTAFARI AFTER CORAL GARDENS, 2011; www.badfridaythemovie.com

EXCEPTIONAL VIOLENCE: EMBODIED CITIZENSHIP IN TRANSNATIONAL JAMAICA, 2011 (https://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=47360&viewby=author&lastname=Thomas&firstname=Deborah&middlename=&sort=title)

GLOBALIZATION AND RACE: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF BLACKNESS, 2006 (http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=11958&viewby=title)

MODERN BLACKNESS: NATIONALISM, GLOBALIZATION, AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURE IN JAMAICA, 2004 (http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=7797)

The Violence of Diaspora, 2009

Walmart, Katrina, and Other Ideological Tricks, 2008

Blackness Across Borders, 2007

Public Bodies, 2006

Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness, Ed. Kamari M. Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas, Duke University Press, 2006

Modern Blackness, 2004

Rethinking Global and Area Studies, 2003