MICRO-BIO

• Currently I am working as a Lecturer of Anthropology, and Social Sciences Director at the California State University Stanislaus.My academic work concerns mainly Anthropology of Religion, as well as the Philosophy of Science. For my doctaral thesis,...More

  Currently I am working as a Lecturer of Anthropology, and Social Sciences Director at the California State University Stanislaus.My academic work concerns mainly Anthropology of Religion, as well as the Philosophy of Science. For my doctaral thesis, I research about Afro-Brazilian and African cultures, in particular, spirit possession trance phenomenon and the reaction and description of the phenomenon in different scientific disciplines.Currently, I am researching about environmental and ecological problems in connection to different worldview approaches.My primary fieldwork focus is on Brazil, and the dynamic of the Candomble religion in the advancing process of contemporary globalization.

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EXPERIENCE

• California State University Stanislaus

  • Lecturer / Director of Social Sciences
  • Anthropology / Social Sciences
  • Present

• University of Northern Colorado

  • Adjunct
  • Anthropology
  • January 2012 to December 2014

• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE)

  • Guest Professor
  • Sociologia
  • June 2007 to August 2007

• University of Hamburg

  • Lecturer
  • Anthropology
  • August 1996 to March 2010

EDUCATION

• University of Hamburg

  • Ph.D.
  • October 2018 to July 1995

• Music University of Hamburg

  • BA piano
  • October 1980 to July 1984

• University of Hamburg

  • Master Philosophy
  • October 1979 to July 1987

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