Faculty Advisory Board
Benjamin Penglase
Title/s: Associate Professor of Anthropology
Office #: BVM Tower 707
Phone: 773.508.3430
Email: Bpengla@luc.edu
External Webpage: http://bpenglase.com/
About
Ben Penglase received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2003. He is a cultural anthropologist with research experience in Brazil. His most resent research project, based on fieldwork with residents of a favela (or squatter neighborhood), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, analyzes how drug trafficking, police violence and inequality are reshaping Brazilian society. His research interests include race and gender in Brazil, the cultural effects of globalization and neoliberalism, urbanization, human rights and cultural relativism, and Latin American social movements. Dr. Penglase has a joint appointment in Anthropology and Latin American Studies.
Courses Taught
ANTH 102: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 211: Peoples of Latin America
ANTH 305: Violence and Culture
ANTH 306: Anthropology and Human Rights
ANTH 307: The Human Body in Cultural Perspective
ANTH 361: Social Movement and Activism
LASP 101: Introduction to Latin American Studies
LASP 396: Human Rights in Latin America
Selected Publications
Book:
2014. Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban Violence and Daily Life. Rutgers University Press.
Journal articles, book chapters and other publications:
2016. An Oral History of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: interview with Rolker Gracie. In The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Politics and Culture, Duke University Press.
2014. Brazilian Football as a Means of Reflecting Upon Brazilian Society. World Post.
2013. Invading the Favela: Echoes of Police Practices among Brazil's Urban Poor. In Policing and Contemporary Governance: The Anthropology of Police in Practice. William Garriott, ed. Palgrave Press.
2012 Review of Drug War Zone by Howard Campbell. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 17(2):373-375.
2011 Review of Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip-Hop by Derek Pardue. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 16(1): 223-225.
2011 Lost Bullets: Fetishes of Urban Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Anthropological Quarterly 84(2): 411-438.
2010 The Owner of the Hill: Masculinity and Drug-Trafficker Power in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 15(2): 317-337.
2009 States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 32(1): 407-423.
2009 Interview: The New Anthropology of Crime. PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 32(1): 465-483 (with P. Parnell and S. Kane).
2008 Review of Lucia: Testimonies of a Drug Dealer's Woman. The Luso-Brazilian Review 45(2): 205-208.
2008 The Bastard Child of the Dictatorship: The Comando Vermelho and the Birth of "Narco-Culture" in Rio de Janeiro. The Luso-Brazilian Review 45(1): 118-145.
2007 Barbarians on the Beach: Media Narratives of Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Crime, Media and Culture 3(3): 305-325.
2005 The Shutdown of Rio de Janeiro: The Poetics of Drug Trafficker Violence. Anthropology Today, Vol. 21, (October) No. 5.
