Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Meida McNeal Research Interest: "Choreographing Citizenship in the Gayelle: Performing Trinidadian Nationalism." Meida is revising her dissertation into a book. This comparative ethnographic study focuses on four Afro- and Indo-Trinidadian dance companies. Analyzing the relationship between cultural production and variables of difference (race/ethnicity, class and gender), the study contributes to current discourse about citizenship and nation-building in the post-colonial Caribbean through the arena of cultural production as both a local and globally situated enterprise. |