Andrea S. Allen

Andrea S. Allen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, holding appointments in the Department of Anthropology and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. She serves as Undergraduate Coordinator and focuses on race, sexuality, gender, violence, and religion in Brazil and the African Diaspora. Her research prioritizes lived experiences of marginalized groups, particularly LGBTQ Brazilians and Afro-Brazilian lesbian women.

• Education: PhD

Her work explores embodied perspectives of marginalization through ethnographic studies of Candomblé, same-sex sexuality, and gender. Her first book (2015) examined violence and desire in Brazilian lesbian relationships, while her current project investigates LGBT evangelical Brazilians' religious identity and sexual subjectivity.

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