Qualifications
Derek Pardue is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark. He has conducted fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, Lisbon, Portugal, Praia, Cape Verde and Aarhus related to hip hop, migration, darkness, urban cultural politics and queer studies. He is the author of Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop (Palgrave 2008) and Cape Verde, Let’s Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal (University of Illinois Press 2015), and Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Bloomsbury 2021, in English).
His work has appeared in journals such as Words Without Borders, Ethnologies, American Ethnologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Afro Beat, Identities, Social Text, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Education
2004 PhD, Cultural Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1996 Master of Music in Ethnomusicology, University of Texas, Austin
1993 Music theory and composition studies, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
1991 Bachelor of Arts in German Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Academic Appointments
2015 - present Associate Professor and Program Director of Brazilian Studies, Aarhus University
2014 - 2015 Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator, Aarhus University
2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
2013 - 2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University and Southern Connecticut State University
2006 - 2013 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
2004-2006 Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College
2002-2004 Visiting Lecturer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Academic Affiliations
2023 - 24 Visiting Professor, Federal University of São Paulo, São Carlos (Brazil)
2021 - 22 Affiliated Professor, Duke-Brazil Initiative (DBI)
2017 Visiting Professor, Federal University of São Paulo, São Carlos (Brazil)
2014 Visiting Professor, Federal University of São Paulo, São Carlos (Brazil)
2010 Visiting Professor, University of Campinas (Brazil)