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Jallo Zainabu is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Basel. Her work bridges material culture, transatlantic religious practices, and criminal anthropology, with a regional focus on Brazil, Haiti, and Cuba.
- Education: PhD and MA in Anthropology from the University of Bern
- Current Projects: Ongoing research in Criminal Anthropology and prior work on Vodun Epistemologies at the University of Zurich
Her publications include a 2025 monograph on Brazilian Candomblé’s material culture and co-authored articles in Anthropology Now (2024). Jallo’s research traces how artifacts mediate diasporic identity, religious transmission, and contested heritage.
Methodological strengths lie in ethnographic fieldwork and interdisciplinary analysis of objects, memory, and political processes. She participates in Basel’s Anthropology Field School initiatives, notably presenting on infrahumanization through objects in 2025.
