Francio Guadeloupe

Francio Guadeloupe is senior research fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV- KNAW). He is also the endowed Professor in the Public Anthropology of Kingdom relations. Guadeloupe’s strategy in public anthropology consists of ethnographically studying and critically collaborating with community based organizations, civil society institutions, and grassroots media houses that seek to foster and study conviviality and solidarity within and across the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Guadeloupe has published widely, both peer review publications and popular scientific essays. He is the author of the monographs, Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology (University of Mississippi Press 2022) and Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009).