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Christopher Krupa is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto (Scarborough campus), where he researches political anthropology, racial capitalism, and postcolonial violence in Latin America. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. His work examines the entanglement of capitalist expansion, state formation, and indigenous dispossession in Ecuador.
His research focuses on:
- The racialized labor systems in Ecuador's cut-flower industry
- State and para-state violence in postcolonial contexts
- Political affect and indigenous resistance
- Historical continuities between colonialism and contemporary capitalism
His publications predominantly analyze agrarian capitalism in the Global South, with recent work exploring plantation economies, value theory, and neoliberal historicity. Articles trend toward ethnographic critiques of political economy (75%), with 45% focusing exclusively on Andean Ecuador.
Major Scientific Awards:
- Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize (2022)
- Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Book Prize (2023)
- CASCA Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Runner-up (2023)
- LASA Ecuadorian Studies Honorable Mention (2024)
He advises five graduate students researching Latin American political economy and indigenous sovereignty. As Co-Editor of Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, he coordinates scholarly interventions on capitalist restructuring.
