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Alírio Karina is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies at the University of Warwick, specializing in African and Comparative Literatures. Before joining Warwick in 2024, Karina taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and served as an organizer and faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Mimbres School for Humanities. From 2020 to 2023, Karina was a National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town. In 2023-2024, Karina will be a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's African Humanities Colloquium. The research interests include concepts of Blackness and Africanity, intersectionality of race and caste, the history of slavery, and memory politics. Karina also engages with broader anthropological discourses surrounding race, including visual culture and material collections. In the upcoming academic year, Karina welcomes postgraduate students interested in narrative slavery, race, and material culture for supervision and teaching.
University of Warwick • Coventry, England
Teach courses on Black Studies and supervise postgraduate students.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Conduct research in the African Humanities Colloquium.
University of Cape Town • Cape Town, South Africa
Engaged in research at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative.
Includes General, Mechanical, Civil, Electrical, Biomedical, and Manufacturing Engineering. Most programs fall under English Band A.