Dr. OSMUNDO PINHO

Osmundo Pinho is from Salvador da Bahia. He has a PhD in Social Sciences (UNICAMP, 2003). He works in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social Sciences at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia and in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies at the Federal University of Bahia, in Salvador. He is an associate researcher at the Institute of African Studies at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and coordinator of the Territoriality, Violence and Heritage Group in the Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB/CNPq). He was a visiting scholar in the Department of African and Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2014) and a Richard E. Greenleaf Fellow at the Latin American Library at Tulane University in New Orleans (2020). Co-organizer with Joao H. Costa Vargas of “Antinegritude: The Impossible Black Subject in the Brazilian National Formation” (2016) and author of “Captivity: Antinegritude and Ancestrality” (2021), in addition to other books, articles and essays.