#  Mary Lorena Kenny 

Eastern Connecticut State University

 

 

 



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 Mary Lorena Kenny (PhD, MPH) is a Professor of Anthropology at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her research interests include heritage, memory, and identity; Afro-Brazilian culture and politics; child labor; migration, and public health. She has worked extensively in both rural and urban northeast Brazil. Her recent book Deeply rooted in the present: heritage, memory, and identity in Brazilian quilombos, (2018, University of Toronto Press) examines the complicated status of federally recognized Maroon communities, and the ongoing challenges for Afro-Brazilians.



 

 

 





 

 

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