Judith Marie Anderson

Judith Anderson is an Associate Professor in the Center for Ethnic Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College.  She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Florida in 2010.  As an Afro-Latin Americanist, her research focuses on politically mobilizing Africans and Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires. She examines the resurgence of Black identity in Argentina, the “European nation of Latin America,” as well as the most recent endeavors of local Black activists.  The Pan-African efforts of organizers concentrated in the City of Buenos Aires have led to several initiatives with large and small-scale gains including the historic re-inclusion of Afro-descendants on the 2010 national census after more than a century of absence.  Dr. Anderson has several publications based on her work and she also leads study abroad programs to both Argentina and Brazil.