Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her dissertation on vagrancy and identification science in Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century was awarded and published by Arquivo Nacional in 2002. She was Post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University (1999-2000), John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2002), Visiting-Professor at New York University (2006-2007), and at the University of Amsterdam (2017). She has published article, book chapters and edited volumes on postemancipation and social movement in Brazil and Cuba. Her research for Guggenheim resulted in a book on ethnography, archives, and artifacs of knowledge in Cuba, Brazil and US (Forthcoming, Brill Publishers). Her current research include plantationocene/plantation and extractivism, traditional knowledge, and other cultural and political transformations among the maroon Cottica Ndyukas in Moengo, Eastern Suriname, after the late 1980s civil war.

Professora Titular do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Possui graduação em História pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1987), mestrado (1991) e doutorado (1998) em Antropologia Social pelo PPGAS/Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1998), e pós-doutorado na Harvard University(1999-2000). Fellow da John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (2002) e pesquisadora-visitante da Harvard University (1999-2000). Professora-visitante da New York University (2006-2007), na University of Amsterdam (2017) e Tinker Visiting Professor na University of Chicago (2018). Coordena o Laboratório de Antropologia e História [LAH/PPGAS/Museu Nacional/UFRJ]. Realizou pesquisa de campo e em arquivos em Cuba, Estados Unidos, Brasil e Suriname. Atualmente desenvolve pesquisa sobre plantationoceno/plantation e extrativismo, e conhecimentos tradicionais entre os maroons Ndyuka, na região do Cottica, costa leste do Suriname e divisa com a Guiana Francesa.