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Lara Stein Pardo

Affiliated Institutions

Brown University

Lara Stein Pardo is a cultural anthropologist and visual artist. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. Her research and teaching interests include anthropology and ethnographic methods, arts and artistic practice, diaspora, migrations, race, gender, space, place, mapping, archives, and performance, focusing on the United States, Caribbean, and African diasporas, and the interactions between these geographic and cultural areas. Stein Pardo earned a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, where she also completed an MA, and earned her BA in Ethnic Studies and Studio Art from the University of Colorado.

Areas of Research

art and art practice, Caribbean, migration and diaspora

Publications

Stein Pardo, Lara. Contemporary Black Photographic Practice in Miami, Florida: Noelle Théard and Donnalyn Anthony, Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the African Diaspora, eds. Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Cheryl R. Rodriguez, and Dzodzi Tsikata, Michigan State University Press, Forthcoming.

Projects

Miami, FL, United States

Artists, Aesthetics, and Migrations: Contemporary Art and Caribbean Diaspora in Miami, Florida

Artists, Aesthetics, and Migrations: Contemporary Visual Arts and Caribbean Diaspora in Miami, Florida, is an ethnographic study analyzing the historic and contemporary relationship between Miami and the Caribbean, and how artists' works reflect and produce this experience in several ways: engaging the landscape; rethinking migrations; building practices based on diasporic legacies; and intervening in archives.

Miami, FL, United States

Mapping Arts Project

The Mapping Arts Project maps cities through places where artists have lived and worked historically. Each city in the project focuses on a specific time period, connecting artists to places where they have lived, worked, or visited through maps, photographs and documents, and ethnographic and historical narratives. In Miami, I focus on the 1920s - 1950s. http://mappingartsproject.org

Providence, RI, United States

Mapping Arts Project

The Mapping Arts Project maps cities through places where artists have lived and worked historically. Each city in the project focuses on a specific time period, connecting artists to places where they have lived, worked, or visited through maps, photographs and documents, and ethnographic and historical narratives. In Miami, I focus on the 1920s - 1950s. http://mappingartsproject.org