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Jesse Weaver Shipley is the John D. Willard Professor of African and African American Studies and Oratory at Dartmouth College, with an affiliation to the Department of Anthropology. His work bridges ethnography, filmmaking, and art, exploring the intersections of aesthetics and politics through studies of urban life, labor, race, gender, and new media technologies in Africa and its diasporas.
- Education:
- A.B., Brown University
- M.A., University of Chicago
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
His research focuses on performances, popular cultures, and political aesthetics in urban Africa. Key works include the books Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music and Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa, and films such as Living the Hiplife: Musical Life in the Streets of Accra. Current projects include a book on parody and violence and a film on world champion female boxers.
Shipley’s writings appear in journals like Public Culture, American Ethnologist, and Cultural Anthropology, and he contributes to platforms like africasacountry.com. His multimedia collaborations include the installation Investigated with Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.
