Mario LaMothe, PhD
Assistant Professor
Anthropology, Sociocultural
Black Studies
Pronouns: He/Him, They/Them
Contact
Building & Room:
BSB 2138A
Address:
1007 W. Harrison Street
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About
Mario LaMothe is Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in Black Studies and Anthropology. His research involves embodied and affective pedagogies of Afro-Caribbean religious rituals, performance practice, and queer lifeworlds. His forthcoming monograph Vodou Rich: Haiti, Dancemakers, and Dedoublaj is a Haitian Performance Studies experimentation that illuminates how Haiti, Haitians, and their embodiments continue to haunt circum-Atlantic social and cultural histories, through the embodied continuation of Vodou and African Diaspora humanity. Mario’s writing is featured in various peer-reviewed and commercial publications. In addition, he co-organizes Afro-Feminist Performance Routes, the Queer/Sexualities Working Group for the Haitian Studies Association, and the Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective.
A performance artist and curator, Mario is inaugurating Kafou Lespri, a live and digital platform of art, activations, and activism that is a creative home for Haitians and their interlocutors to celebrate the lived experiences of transnational Haiti.
Education
PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, 2015
MFA in Performing Arts Management from Brooklyn College (CUNY), 1999
Certificate in Dance from Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, 1994
BA in Theater Arts and French Studies from Boston College, 1992