- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2002
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Solimar Otero
Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Professor, Gender Studies
Editor, Journal of Folklore Research
Affiliated Professor, Religious Studies
Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Professor, Gender Studies
Editor, Journal of Folklore Research
Affiliated Professor, Religious Studies
Solimar Otero is Professor of Folklore and Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is also the editor of the Journal of Folklore Research. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, performance, literature, and ethnography. She is the author of Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press 2020), which won the 2021 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions. She is also the author of Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World, (University of Rochester Press, 2010); co-editor of Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas (SUNY Press 2013); and co-editor of Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches (Indiana University Press, 2021). Dr. Otero is a Folklore Fellow of the American Folklore Society; the recipient of a Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund grant; a fellowship at the Harvard Divinity School’s Women’s Studies in Religion Program; and a Fulbright award.
Theorizing Folklore from the Margins: Critical and Ethical Approaches. Indiana University Press, 2021.
Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures. Columbia University Press, 2020.
Yemoja: Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas. State University Press of New York, 2014.
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World. Boydell & Brewer, 2010