Sabia McCoy-Torres

Sabia McCoy-Torres is an Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology and Program in Africana Studies at Tulane University. She is on leave for 2024-25 and holds a Ph.D. in social/cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her research examines the African Diaspora (English/Spanish-speaking contexts), race, gender/sexuality, transnationalism, and Black popular music/performance. She is currently working on a book using reggae culture to analyze West Indian Diaspora dynamics in Costa Rica and Brooklyn, New York.

Education: Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cornell University.

Research Interests include:

• Black popular music and performance
• Racial and ethnic identity in Latin America
• Transnational migration
• Urban music and cultural studies

Publications include peer-reviewed articles in Popular Music & Society, Black Music Research Journal, and Transforming Anthropology (for which she serves as Contributing Editor). She also writes critically about race and representation in blogs like Remezcla and Latino Rebels.

Teaching focuses include:

• The Anthropology of Race
• Urban Music: Race, Class, and Sexuality
• Blackness in Latin America
• Black Transnational Culture