01/2020 Jean Muteba Rahier Work Address Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies Florida International University SIPA 328 11200 S.W. 8th Street Miami, Florida 33199 USA Phone: 305 348-2246 Fax: 305 348-3605 E-Mail:
[email protected] https://gss.fiu.edu/people/faculty/jean-muteba-rahier/ https://ojala.fiu.edu Education June 1994, Ph.D. in Sociology, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France. Graduated with Honors With Mention: Très Honorable. (My advisor was an anthropologist who taught in the Department of Sociology) Dissertation Title: La Fête des Rois Afro-Esméraldienne en République de l'Équateur July 1985, Licence en Sciences Sociales (Anthropology track), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Graduated With Honors. EMPLOYMENT Teaching/Research (Since 1991) Since Fall 2013, Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies, With a joint appointment in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies and the African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Since January 2018, Founding Director of the Observatory of Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America (OJALA), which functions in Spanish, Portuguese and English. OJALA is housed in the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) at Florida International University. https://ojala.fiu.edu. August 1998 through August 2013, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University, Miami, Florida. August 1994-August 1998, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1 August 1992 – July 1994, Instructor of Anthropology, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. September 1991, Lecturer for the African American Studies Department, University of California at Berkeley, California.