Department of Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago

Dr. Benjamin Penglase

Photos, from left to right: on a beach in Rio; a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Associate Professor
Loyola University Chicago
Department of Anthropology
Lake Shore Campus,
Coffey Hall 443
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60660
773.508.3430
Bpengla@luc.edu

Ben Penglase received his Ph.D.from Harvard University in 2003. He is a cultural anthropologist with research experience in Brazil. His most resent research project, based on fieldwork with residents of a favela (or squatter neighborhood), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, analyzes how drug trafficking, police violence and inequality are reshaping Brazilian society. His research interests include race and gender in Brazil, the cultural effects of globalization and neoliberalism, urbanization, human rights and cultural relativism, and Latin American social movements. Dr. Penglase has a joint appointment in Anthropology and Latin American Studies.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

2011 “Review of Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip-Hop by Derek Pardue.” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 16(1):223-225

2011 "Lost bullets: fetishes of urban violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" Anthropological Quarterly. 84(20): 411-438.

2010 “The Owner of the Hill: Masculinity and Drug-Trafficker Power in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 15(2):317-337

2009 “States of Insecurity: everyday emergencies, public secrets and drug trafficker power in a Brazilian favela,” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Vol 32(1): 407-423.

2009 “Interview: the New Anthropology of Crime,” (co-authored with Philip Parnell and Stephanie Kane), PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Vol 32(1): 465-483.

2008 “Review of Lucia: Testimonies of a Drug Dealer’s Woman.” The Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol 45(2): 205-208

2008 “The Bastard Child of the Dictatorship: the Comando Vermelho and the Birth of ‘Narco-Culture’ in Rio de Janeiro,” The Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol 45(1): 118-145.

2007 "Barbarians on the Beach: Media Narratives of Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." Crime, Media and Culture. Vol 3(3): 305-325.

2005 "The Shutdown of Rio de Janeiro: The Poetics of Drug Trafficker Violence." Anthropology Today, Vol. 21, (October) No. 5.

2002 "Warriors for Peace: The Luta Pela Paz Boxing Academy." Revista, Harvard Review of Latin America (Spring).

1998 "Citizenship or Favelaship: An Interview with Caio Ferraz." DRCLAS News [David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies News] (Spring).

Department of Anthropology|Loyola University Chicago

Department of Anthropology

Dr. Benjamin Penglase