Charles D. Piot
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Overview
Charlie Piot, Ph.D. University of Virginia 1986, Chair and Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies, does research on the political economy and history of rural West Africa. His first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), attempted to retheorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and the global. His recent book, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War (2010), explores shifts in Togolese political culture during the 1990s, a time when the NGOs and charismatic churches take over the biopolitical, reorganizing social and political life in the absence of the state. His current project is on Togolese who apply for and attempt to game the US Diversity Visa Lottery.
Graduate Student Mentoring Award. Unknown. December 2012
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Piety in Progress: Video Filmmaking and Religious Encounter in Benin awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2016
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Producing Urban Futures in Post-Genocide Kigali awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2015
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Raiding Sovereignty in Central Africa awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2009 to 2011
Piot, C. Nostalgia For the Future: West Africa After the Cold War. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Piot, C. Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Piot, C. "Pentecostal and Development Imaginaries in West Africa." Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa. Ed. D Freeman. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.
Piot, C. "Border Practices." Hard Work, Hard Times: Ethnographies of Volatility and African Being-in-the-World. Ed. B Buggenhagen, S Jackson, and A-M Makhulu. University of California Press, 2010.
Piot, C, and Amselle, JL. "Ethnicity: Western Africa." New Encyclopedia of Africa. 2007. 342-344.
Piot, C. "Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case." Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. R Abusharaf. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Piot, C. "Togolese Cartographies: Re-mapping Space in a post-Cold War City." Crisis and Creativity: Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighborhood. Ed. P Konings and D Foeken. Leiden: Brill Press, 2006.
Piot, C. "Fractal Figurations: Homologies and Hierarchies inKabre Culture." On the Order of ’Chaos’: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos. Ed. M Mosko and F Damon. Blackwell, 2005.
Allison, A, Boyer, D, and Piot, C. "Financing Open Access: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology." Cultural Anthropology 31.2 (May 9, 2016): 159-161. Full Text
Allison, A, and Piot, C. "Editing the Times." Cultural Anthropology 30.4 (November 23, 2015): 525-530. Full Text
Allison, A, and Piot, C. "Editors’ Farewell." Cultural Anthropology 29.4 (November 10, 2014): 599-601. Full Text
Harms, E, Hussain, S, Newell, S, Piot, C, Schein, L, Shneiderman, S, Turner, T, and Zhang, J. "Remote and edgy: New takes on old anthropological themes." HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 4.1 (June 30, 2014): 361-361. Full Text
Piot, C, and Allison, A. "Editors’ Introduction: Open Access." Cultural Anthropology 29.2 (May 19, 2014): 201-202. Full Text
Allison, A, and Piot, C. "Editors’ Note on “Neoliberal Futures”." Cultural Anthropology 29.1 (February 3, 2014): 3-7. Full Text
ALLISON, ANNE, and PIOT, CHARLES. "EDITORS' NOTE." Cultural Anthropology 28.3 (August 2013): 369-371. Full Text
ALLISON, ANNE, and PIOT, CHARLES. "EDITORS’ NOTE." Cultural Anthropology 27.2 (May 2012): 191-192. Full Text
Allison, A, and Piot, C. "EDITORS' NOTES." CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 27.1 (February 2012): 1-2. Full Text
ALLISON, ANNE, and PIOT, CHARLES. "EDITORS’ STATEMENT." Cultural Anthropology 26.4 (November 2011): 511-513. Full Text