About Sabrina Gledhill

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British national raised in Puerto Rico who has lived in Salvador, Bahia, since 1986.  PhD candidate at the Universidade Federal da Bahia Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO). Writer, translator, researcher, editor and lecturer. B.A. in English (Summa cum laude) and M.A. in Latin American Studies (1986) from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Comprehensive examination paper titled “Afro-Brazilian Studies before 1930: Nineteenth-century racial attitudes and the work of five scholars.” Research focuses on Manuel Querino and Brazilian race relations.

Translator of over 30 books, including The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and Projeto Axé, edited by France Morin (2000), and Death is a Festival, by João José Reis (2003).

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