Juan Obarrio

Juan Obarrio is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. He works in the fields of critical theory and political anthropology, having conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique and South America, and has published essays on state, law, custom, violence and magic. He has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has been a visiting professor in Paris, Johannesburg and Buenos Aires. He has published many essays in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian. He is the author of The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique (2014), Corps Etranger (2014); and A Matter of Time: the State of Things in Mozambique (forthcoming). He is the co-editor of African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence and Possibility (2016). He currently conducts research on healing, politics and religion in West Africa.