About the Curator

Dr. Jamie Lee Andreson is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Ethnic and African Studies from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). She is an Assistant Teaching Professor of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of the Portuguese language book Ruth Landes e a cidade das Mulheres: uma releitura da antropologia do candomblé (Editora UFBA, 2019), which revisits the anthropologist Ruth Landes’s fieldwork in Afro-Brazilian religious communities from 1938-1939. Dr. Andreson’s ongoing research and publications consider Landes’ theory of matriarchy as Black women’s power and leadership in the Candomblé religion of Brazil.