Charles D. Piot
Professor of African and African American Studies
Overview
Charlie Piot, Peter Lange Faculty Director of DukeEngage and Professor of Cultural Anthropology & African and African American Studies, does research on the political economy and history of rural West Africa. His first book, Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa (1999), attempted to re-theorize a classic out-of-the-way place as within the modern and global. His next book, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War (2010), explored shifts in Togolese political culture during the 1990s, a time when the NGOs and charismatic churches took over the biopolitical, reorganizing social and political life in the absence of the state. His most recent book, The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles (2019), is about Togolese who apply for and attempt to game the US Diversity Visa Lottery. He has begun research focusing on the return of Togolese from the diaspora to West Africa.
Graduate Student Mentoring Award. Unknown. December 2012
Selected Grants
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Securing Youth: Humanitarian Futures in Post-Conflict Uganda awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2019
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Piety in Progress: Video Filmmaking and Religious Encounter in Benin awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2016
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Producing Urban Futures in Post-Genocide Kigali awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2015
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Raiding Sovereignty in Central Africa awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2009 to 2011
Piot, Charles. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. Duke University Press, 2019. Open Access Copy
Piot, C. Nostalgia For the Future: West Africa After the Cold War. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Piot, C. Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Piot, C. “Pentecostal and Development Imaginaries in West Africa.” Pentecostalism and Development: Churches, NGOs and Social Change in Africa, edited by Dena Freeman, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.
Piot, C. “Border Practices.” Hard Work, Hard Times: Ethnographies of Volatility and African Being-in-the-World, edited by B. Buggenhagen et al., University of California Press, 2010.
Piot, C., and J. L. Amselle. “Ethnicity: Western Africa.” New Encyclopedia of Africa, vol. 2, 2007, pp. 342–44.
Piot, C. “Representing Africa in the Kasinga Asylum Case.” Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, edited by R. Abusharaf, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Piot, C. “Togolese Cartographies: Re-mapping Space in a post-Cold War City.” Crisis and Creativity: Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighborhood, edited by P. Konings and D. Foeken, Leiden: Brill Press, 2006.
Piot, C. “Fractal Figurations: Homologies and Hierarchies inKabre Culture.” On the Order of ’Chaos’: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos, edited by M. Mosko and F. Damon, Blackwell, 2005.
Allison, A., et al. “FINANCING OPEN ACCESS: Introducing Friends of Cultural Anthropology.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 31, no. 2, May 2016, pp. 159–61. Scopus, doi:10.14506/ca31.2.01. Full Text
Allison, A., and C. Piot. “Editing the times.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 30, no. 4, Jan. 2015, pp. 525–30. Scopus, doi:10.14506/ca30.4.01. Full Text
Allison, A., and C. Piot. “Editors' note on "neoliberal futures".” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 1, Feb. 2014, pp. 3–7. Scopus, doi:10.14506/ca29.1.02. Full Text
Allison, A., and C. Piot. “Editors' farewell.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 4, Jan. 2014, pp. 599–601. Scopus, doi:10.14506/ca29.4.01. Full Text
Harms, E., et al. “Remote and edgy: New takes on old anthropological themes.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 2014, pp. 361–81. Scopus, doi:10.14318/hau4.1.020. Full Text
Alison, A., and C. Piot. “Editors' introduction: Open access.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 29, no. 2, Jan. 2014, pp. 201–02. Scopus, doi:10.14506/ca29.2.01. Full Text
Allison, A., and C. Piot. “Editors' note.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 28, no. 3, Aug. 2013, pp. 369–71. Scopus, doi:10.1111/cuan.12009. Full Text
Allison, Anne, and Charles Piot. “Untitled.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 2, May 2012, pp. 191–92. Wos-lite, doi:10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01139.x. Full Text
Allison, A., and C. Piot. “Editors' notes.” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 1, Feb. 2012, pp. 1–2. Scopus, doi:10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01123.x. Full Text