Francio
Guadeloupe

Francio Guadeloupe is an Associate Professor in the department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), combining public anthropology with a love for teaching and doing ethnographic research. He is also a senior research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW). Dr. Guadeloupe has also served for four years as the President of the University of St. Martin (USM), until hurricane Irma led to the temporary closure of the institution on the bi-national island of Sint Maarten and Saint Martin. Guadeloupe's principle areas of research have been on the manner in which popular understandings of national belonging, ethnic diversity, migration, cultural heritage, religious identity, and mass media constructions of truth, continue to be impacted by colonial racisms and global capital. He has pursued these interests in his research and publications on social processes on the bi-national island of Saint Martin & Sint Maarten (St. Martin), Curaçao, Aruba, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Brazil, and the Netherlands. He is the author of the monograph, Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009). He has also co-edited volumes on migration, multiculturality, belonging and postcolonial theory such as Zo Zijn Onze Manieren..visies op multiculturaliteit in Nederland” (Amsterdam Rozenberg Publishers 2007) with Vincent de Rooij, and with Paul van de Laar and Liliane van der Linden Rotterdam een postkoloniale stad in beweging (Amsterdam: Boom Publishers, 2020). Forthcoming from Guadeloupe are the monograph “Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology” (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi) and the edited volume with Yvon Equiliberty in the Caribbean (New Jersey: Rutgers University). Guadeloupe is the co-editor of the Sage Journal Ethnography.