Marc D. Perry, Assistant Professor
Contact
African American Studies
and Anthropology
1201 West Nevada
Urbana, Illinois 61801
217.333.7781
mdp@illinois.edu
Biography
Marc D. Perry is an Assistant Professor in African American Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A native New Yorker, Dr. Perry received his B.A. from Vassar College in African Studies in 1989 and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of Texas in Austin in 2004.
His current book project explores Cuba's emergent hip hop movement as a site to examine the globally-inflected dynamics of race and social transformation on the island during the post-Soviet era period. Scholarly interests include the cultural politics of the African Diaspora, black transnationalisms, racial identity formation, race and blackness in Latin America, black expressive culture, and black diasporic film. He is currently working on a number of scholarly articles for publication.