Carlota McAllister
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the former director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean. From 2013-16 I served on the Executive Committee of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. In 2016-17 I was a Faculty Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for American History at Harvard University.
A political and historical anthropologist, I study the formation of political and moral agency in situations of conflict or crisis, using theoretical tools drawn from the anthropology of religion, actor-network theory, feminist anthropology, and political ecology. I work in Latin America, to date in agrarian communities in Guatemala and Chile, but increasingly I am interested in other kinds of collectives, particularly those formed around contemporary art, chronic illness, and mystical and popular Catholic tradition.