Rate My Professor Juan Eduardo Wolf

In his research, Wolf investigates how music-dance facilitates human self-understanding and representation, focusing on expressions of historically dispossessed Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. His fieldwork involves Afro-descendant and Aymara communities in northern Chile, with ongoing projects in Puerto Rico and lowland Bolivia, emphasizing decolonial thought, ethnography, and folkloristics. Key publications include the book Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora (Indiana University Press, 2019), the chapter “Dismantling Coloniality via the Vocabulary of Afro-Chilean and Afro-Puerto Rican Music-Dance” in Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone (Vanderbilt University Press, 2022), and “Un Tumbe Ch’ixi: Incorporating Afro-descendant Ideas into an Andean Anticolonial Methodology” in Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches (Indiana University Press, 2021). Awards received include the 2018 UO Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies Faculty Collaboration Grant, 2018 Global Oregon Faculty Collaboration Grant, and 2016 VPRI Completion Fellowship from the Oregon Humanities Center. As a performer, he contributes as percussionist, guitarist, vocalist, and composer in various ensembles.