Katrin Hansing

Education

Ph.D., Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College Oxford England

M.A., Medical Anthropology, University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies London England

B.A., History & Anthropology, Georgetown University Washington DC

Study Abroad, African History & Anthropology, University of Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe

Artistic and Creative Activities

Hansing, K. (2018). 'Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator'. FOKAL.

Hansing , K. (2015). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. University Of North Carolina.

Hansing , K. (2014). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. Mayles Cinema.

Hansing , K. (2011). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. Recontre Film Festival.

Hansing , K. (2010). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. Africa Documentary Film festival.

Hansing , K. (2010). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. Latin American Film Festival.

Hansing , K. (2010). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. Encounters Film Festival.

Hansing , K. (2010). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. FIDOCS.

Hansing , K. (2010). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. African Film Festival.

Hansing , K. (2009). Freddy Ilanga: Che's Swahili Translator. Seton Hall University.

Books

Hansing, K., Stepick, A., & Gioioso, R. (2009). Central American Migration to Miami. Madrid, Spanish Cultural Center/Spanish Foreign Ministry.

Hansing, K., & Warren, C. (2008). Cuba Conflict Analysis: Island and Diaspora. Canadian Foundation of the Americas.

Hansing, K. (2006). Rasta Race and Revolution: The Emergence and Development of the Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba. Piscataway, Transaction Books.

Hansing, K., Vertovec, S., Castles, S., & Vasta, E. (2001). Immigration and Integration in the UK. London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Home Office.

Journal Articles

Hansing, K. (2020). 'When Racial Inequalities Return: Assessing the Restratification of Cuban Society 60 Years After Revolution'. Latin American Politics and Society, 62(2). 29-52.

Hansing, K. (2018). 'Race and Rising Inequality in Cuba'. Current History, 117(796). 69-56.

Hansing, K. (2017). Race and Inequality in the New Cuba: Reasons, Dynamics, and Manifestations . Social Research: An International Quaterly, 84(2). 331 - 352.

Hansing, K. (2015). Cuba: las desigualdades se tornan visibles: Consecuencias de la economía de escasez y reformas. Nueva Sociedad, (255). 4 - 18.

Hansing , K., & Optenhoegel, U. (2015). Cuba: the Growing Signs of Inequality – The Consequences of an Economy of Scarcity and Reforms. Arena idé,

Hansing , K. (2015). Racial Inequality in the New Cuba. CubanCounterpoint,

Hansing , K. (2011). Changes from Below: New Dynamics, Spaces, and Attitudes in Contemporary Cuban Society. NACLA, Special Issue.

Hansing , K., & Orozco, M. (2011). Remesas y el futuro del cuentapropismo en Cuba. Palabra Nueva,

Hansing , K. (2007). Cuba's International Development Assistance. Focal Point, 5:7. 1-10.

Hansing , K., & Dorsch, H. (2006). 45 Jahre Süd-Süd-Solidarität?. Inst. Latein Amerika, vol. 291. 10-15.

Hansing , K. (2006). Tatu’s Swahili Translator. African Renaissance , (3:2). 120-123.

Hansing , K. (2006). ’Viel mehr als Ches Suaheli-Übersetzer. Inst. Latein Amerika, 292. 64-65.

Hansing , K. (2006). Changes from Below: Alternative Spaces, Attitudes and Actions in Contemporary Cuba. Hemisphere, 17. 4-16.

Hansing , K. (2005). Rastafari in a Different Kind of Babylon. Caribbean Studies, (34:1). 61-84.

Hansing , K., & Mahler, S. (2005). Toward a Transnationalism of the Middle: Cuban Transnational Religious Landscapes. Latin American Perspectives, (32:1). 121-146.

Hansing , K. (2004). Rastafari a lo cubano. Caminos , (33). 17-26.

Hansing , K. (2001). La Globalizacion del Movimiento Rastafari. Caminos, (22). 56-71.

Hansing, K. (2001). Rasta, Race and Revolution: Transnational Connections in Socialist Cuba. Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies, (27 (4)). 32-47.

Book Chapters

Hansing, K., & Hoffmann, B. (2023). 'The Comeback of Racial Inequalities: Assessing the Re-stratification of Cuban Society'. Contemporary Cuba: the Post-Castro Era (pp. 289-300). London. Rowman & Littlefield.

Hansing, K., & Hoffman, B. (2019). 'Cuban Society: Becoming more unequal, connected and diverse''. Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution USA. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Hansing, K., & Optenhoegel, U. (2015). Kuba: Die Ungleichheiten werden sichtbar – Die Folgen von Mangelwirtschaft und Reformen. In Becker, J. (Ed.), Das kubanische Gesundheitssystem auf dem Prüfstand Duesseldorf,Germany. Hans Boeckler Stiftung.

Hansing, K. (2015). Rasta in Revolution: The Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba. In Kummels, I., Rauhut, C., Rinke, S., & Timm, B. (Eds.), Crossroads of the World: Transatlantic Interrelations in the Caribbean Bielefeld,Germany. Transcript.

Hansing, K. (2014). Remittance Recipients and the Future of Micro-Entrepreneurship in Cuba. In Leogrande, W., & Brenner, P. (Eds.), Cuba Reader: Reinventing the Revolution USA. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Hansing , K. (2009). The Making of Transnational Civic Social Capital between Two Cuban Religious Communities. In Stepick, A., Rey, T., & Mahler, S. (Eds.), Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City Piscataway,USA. Rutgers University Press.

Hansing , K. (2008). South South Migration and Transnational Ties between Cuba and Mozambique. In Smith, M. P., & Eade, J. (Eds.), Transnational Ties Cities, Migrations, and Identities Piscataway. Transaction Books.

Hansing , K. (2006). Unidos en la fé: La formación y el desarrollo del capital cívico social transnacional entre los cubanos católicos en Miami. In Baez Hernández, S., Bencomo, A., & Zimmermann, M. (Eds.), Ir/venir: migraciones transnacionales y procesos culturales entre América latina y el norte Santiago de Chile,Chile. Bravo y Allende Editores.

Hansing , K. (2005). Myths and Mysticism: How Bringing a Transnational Religious Lens to the Examination of Cuba and the Cuban Diaspora Exposes and Ruptures the Fallacy of Isolation. In Fernandez, D. (Ed.), Cuba Transnational Gainesville. University of Florida Press.

Hansing , K. (2005). Rastafari as a Counter-Hegemonic Culture and Discourse in Post-Revolutionary Cuba. In Besson, J., & Fog Olwig, K. (Eds.), Caribbean Narratives London. Macmillan.

Hansing , K., & Mahler, S. (2003). God Knows No Borders: Transnational Religious Ties Linking Miami and Cuba. In Crahan, M. (Ed.), Religion, Culture, And Society: The Case of Cuba Woodrow Wilson.

Media Contributions

(2021). Prensa latina.

(2021). New York Times.

(2021). Washington Post.

(2021). Cape Town Radio.

(2020). New York Times.

(2020). Deutsche Welle.

(2020). New York Times.

(2019). Deutsche Welle.

(2018). New York Times.

(2017). Icarus Films.

(2016). Boston Review.

(2016). New York Magazine.

(2016). Americas Quarterly.

(2013). New York Times.

(2010). WNYC.

(2010). PBS.

(2009). Mail & Guardian.

(2009). NPR.

Presentations

Hansing, K. (2023, February 15). 'Marginilidad urbana y pobreza'. Marginalidad Urbana, Pobreza y Desigualdad Racial. Havana, Cuba: CIPS/Harvard University.

Hansing, K. (2024, June 18). Falling Walls. Falling Walls. Espacios Creativos, Havana: German Embassy, Cuba.

Hansing, K. 'Living in the ruins of another generation's utopia: new social inequalities in Cuba'. University of Miami: CAS.

Hansing, K. (2021, September 13). 'Understanding the Recent Protests in Cuba'. Protests in Latin America. London: Chatam House.

Hansing, K. (2021, May 29). 'Growing Social Inequality in Cuba during Covid'. LASA Annual Meeting. Vancouver - virtual: LASA.

Hansing, K. (2019, October 31). 'Challenging Cuban Diasporas'. New Directions in Cuban Studies. Miami: University of Miami.

Hansing, K., & Hansing, B. (2018, August 31). 'Assessing Cuba's Social Re-stratification'. GIGA: Developments in Contemporary Cuba. Berlin, Germany: German Institute for Global and Area Studies.

Hansing, K., & Hoffman, B. (2018, October 31). 'The restratification of Cuban society: causes and consequences'. Brookings Institution. Washington DC: Brookings Institution.

Hansing, K., & Hoffman, B. (2018, October 31). 'The role of migration and remittances in Cuba's growing racial inequalities'. Cuba Program CUNY. CUNY Graduate Center: CUNY Graduate Center.

Hansing, K. (2018, May 26). 'The role of remittances in Cuba's rise of racial inequalities'. Latin American Society Association. Barcelona, Spain: LASA.

Hansing, K. (2018, January 31). 'Domestic Migration and Gender in Cuba'. Reuters Foundation: StoryLab. London, United Kingdom: Reuters Foundation.

Hansing, K. (2018, April 30). 'Racial Ineqailities in the New Cuba'. University of Miami: New Directions in Cuban Studies. Miami: University of Miami.

Hansing, K. (2018, February 28). 'Cuba in Africa: film screening and talk'. FOKAL Film Series. Port au Prince, Haiti: FOKAL.

Hansing, K. (2017, December 7). 'Racial Inequalities in post Fidel Cuba'. Columbia University Inter-University Seminar. SIPA: Columbia University.

Hansing, K. (2017, April 12). 'New Racial Inequalities Cuba'. Harvard University. Boston: Harvard University.

Hansing, K. (2016, June 30). 'Social Inequality in Contemporary Cuba'. Brussels, Belgium: European Union Parliament.

Hansing, K. (2016, December 16). 'Raza, desigualdad y pobreza: Metodologías y experiencias de la antropología social'. Aspectos teóricos y metodológicos para el estudio de las desigualdades sociales. Havana, Cuba: Juan Marinelo/Harvard University.

Hansing, K. (2016, February 27). 'The Rise of Shanty Towns in Havana'. Urban Development in Cuba. Open Society Foundation, NY: Open Society Foundation.

Hansing, K. (2015, July 9). 'Cuba's New Social Inequalities'. New York: Open Society Foundation.

Hansing , K. (2015, January 15). International Cooperation in a Globalized Word. International Cooperation. Havana, Cuba: University of Havana.

Hansing , K. (2014, May 27). Global Youth Cultures in Comparative Perspective. Re: work conference. berlin, Germany: Humboldt University.

Hansing , K. (2013, October 13). From Kingston to Cuba: Rastafari's Globalization & Localization. Caribbean Histories. Hannover, Germany: University Of Hannover.

Hansing , K. (2012, October 14). The Internet and Civic Spaces in Latin America. Media and Human Rights. Berlin, Germany: Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Hansing , K. (2012, May 31). ’Race’ and Inequality in Contemporary Cuba. Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco: LASA.

Hansing , K. (2012, February 17). Las Experiencias de la unificación alemana para Cuba: el desafío de la identidad nacional. Cuba: a divided nation. Santo Domingo, DR: Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Hansing , K. (2011, November 15). Communication in Cuba. Houston, Texas: World Affairs Council of Houston.

Hansing , K. (2011, November 15). Race and Class in Contemporary Cuba. Cuba Seminar Series. Washington DC: Georgetown University.

Hansing , K. (2011, October 24). The African Presence in Cuban Culture. Cuba Symposium. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Eastern Michigan University.

Hansing , K. (2011, April 10). Cuba's Sixth Party Congress. Cuba Seminar Series. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University.

Hansing , K. (2011, March 31). Inequalities in Contemporary Cuba. CUNY Cuba Conference. New York

Hansing , K. (2010, June 30). Race and Identity in Cuba. WNYC, New York: Past Present Future, the Green Space.

Hansing , K. (2010, October 1). Cuban African Relations during the Cold War. Committee on Global Thought. Columbia University, NYC

Hansing , K. (2010, October 20). US-Cuban Relations under Obama. Cuba under Raul Castro. Berlin, Germany: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Hansing , K. (2010, December 31). Grassroots Impact of Cuba's Economic Reforms. Council on Foreign Relations. Washington, D.C.

Hansing , K. (2010, April 30). Contemporary African Film and Filmmaking. Columbia University, NY: Institute for African Studies.

Hansing , K. (2010, March 31). The Religious Impact of the Mariel Exodus in South Florida. Drew University: Mariel Symposium.

Hansing , K. (2010, April 25). Race and Identity in Cuba. Washington, D.C.: Foreign Service Institute.

Hansing , K. (2009, October 22). Cuban Medical Internationalism in Africa. CUNY Bildner Center

Hansing , K. (2009, October 27). Impact of Cuban Embargo on Cuban People’s Lives. Fordham University Law School

Hansing , K. (2009, November 30). Social Changes in Cuba. Democratization in Cuba. Washington, D.C.: CENTRA.

Hansing , K. (2009, December 5). Cuban Youth: Aspirations, Challenges. Cuba Generacion 2.0. Mexico City: Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Hansing , K. (2009, February 28). Impact of Remittances to Cuba. Washington DC: Inter-American Dialogue.

Hansing , K. (2009, May 31). Remittances and the Future of Micro-Credits in Cuba. Inter-American Dialogue. Washington, D.C.

Hansing , K. (2009, April 30). Popular Expressions in Cuba: Dynamics, Challenges, and Strategies. Raices Cubanas. University of Miami, Miami

Hansing , K. (2009, March 31). Contemporary Cuban Youth, paper presented at Cuba. Generacion 2.0 conference. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Mexico City

Hansing , K. (2009, September 30). Cuban Education System at Home and Abroad. Washington DC: The New Old Guard.

Hansing , K. (2008, April 30). Grassroots Reactions to Recent Reforms in Cuba. Inter-American Dialogue, Washington DC: The New Old Guard: Making Sense of Post-Fidel Cuba.

Hansing , K. (2008, May 27). The Politics of Social Justice in Cuba. The Future of Social Justice in Cuba. Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy: Ford Foundation.

Hansing , K. (2008, September 30). What Cubans think about Obama, McCain and the upcoming US elections. Potential Impact of US elections on US-Cuban relations. Inter-American Dialogue, DC

Hansing , K. (2008, October 31). Grassroots Perspectives on the Effects of the US Embargo and Human Rights in Cuba. Annual Human Rights Symposium. St Thomas University, Miami

Hansing , K. (2008, February 28). El Papel de la Iglesia Católica en la Reconciliación Nacional. 7th Cuban and Cuban American Studies Conference. Florida International University, Miami

Hansing , K. (2008, January 31). The Impact and Consequences of Transnational Religious Ties between Cuba and Miami. Florida International University, Miami: Religion, Society and Social Justice in Contemporary Cuba.

Hansing , K. (2008, February 28). Changes and Continuities in Cuban Society. Senterfitt/Akermann, Miami: Counterpoints of Continuity and Change.

Hansing , K. (2007, October 31). US Cuban Immigration Issues. Inter-American Dialogue, Washington DC

Hansing , K. (2007, September 30). The Politics of Transnational Charity between two Cuban Catholic Communities. Humboldt University, Berlin: paper presented at symposium: ‘Traveling Spirits, Migrants, Markets and Moralities.

Hansing , K. (2007, September 30). Dialogos fronterizos: tránsitos feministas y refexiones postcolinales en un mundo globalizado. Spanish Cultural Centre. Miami: Roundtable Chair and Discussant.

Hansing , K. (2007, September 30). Changes and Continuities in Cuban Society. Latin American Studies Association. Montreal

Hansing , K. (2007, September 30). Race and Inequality in Contemporary Cuba. Canadian Foundation of the Americas. Montreal

Hansing , K. (2006, April 30). A globalisação do movimento Rastafari. African Studies Center. Maputo, Mozambique: Eduardo Mondlane University.

Hansing , K. (2006, June 30). Mas allá de la yuma: the impact of international linkages on Cubans. Good Governance and Social Justice in Cuba. Ottawa: International Dimension.

Hansing , K. (2006, October 31). South-South Migration & Transnational Ties between Cuba & Southern Africa. Transnational Identities, Cities Unbound, Migrations Redefined. Poland: Jagiellonian University, Cracow.

Hansing , K. (2006, October 31). South South Aid. German Institute for Global and Area Studies. Hamburg

Hansing , K. (2006, October 31). The Cultures of Conflict in Contemporary Cuba. Cuba: Conflict Transformation. Ottawa: Canadian Foundation of the Americas.

Hansing , K. (2006, February 28). The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Cuba. 6th International. Florida International University: Cuban and Cuban-America Studies.

Hansing , K. (2006, November 30). Cuban Civil Society. Madrid: FRIDE Foundation.

Hansing , K. (2005, September 30). South-South Social Collaboration Ties between Cuba and Africa. Summer School Academy of the Institute of Advanced Studies. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Hansing , K. (2005, July 31). Transnational Ties between Southern Hemispheric Countries. AEGIS. London

Hansing , K. (2005, May 31). Impact of US policy on lives of ordinary Cubans in Cuba. Washington, DC: US State Department, Western Hemispheric Affairs.

Hansing , K. (2005, January 31). Colaboración Cubana en África. 9th Anthropology of Afro-American Cultures & Societies. Havana, Cuba: Casa de África.

Hansing , K. (2004, April 30). The World Portrayed through Cuba’s Media. Annual Conference of Latin American Journalists and Editors. Miami

Hansing , K. (2004, August 31). Inequality in Cuba. Annual Conference of the Association of the Study of Cuban Economies. Miami

Hansing , K. (2004, September 30). Religious Ties between Cubans on the Island and in the Diaspora. Cuba’s Special Period’, Bildner Centre. City University of New York

Hansing , K. (2004, October 31). Processes of Syncretization in Historical Perspective. Bayreuth

Hansing , K. (2003, November 30). Transnational Religious Ties: Manifestations and Motivations. Determinants of Transnational Ties. Santo Domingo, DR: FLASCO.

Hansing , K. (2002, April 30). Living in Limbo: African Students in Cuba. Africas of the Americas. University of Maryland

Hansing , K. (2002, May 31). So What Color is the Virgin Really? Historical and Contemporary Representations and Racialised Constructions of la Virgin de la Caridad del Cobre. Caribbean Studies. Nassau

Hansing , K. (2002, June 30). Transnational Cuban Catholic Connections. Cuba Catholicism: Island and Diaspora. Notre Dame University: Kellogg Institute.

Hansing , K. (2002, November 30). Pastors, Patron Saints and Paqueticos on the Move: Transnational Religious Ties between Cuba And the United States. American Anthropological Association Meetings. New Orleans,

Hansing , K. (2002, March 31). Medicina, Mulas y Mucho Más: Transnational Links Between the Catholic Church in Cuba and Miami. Fourth International Conference of Cuban Studies. Florida International University, Miami,

Hansing , K. (2002, February 28). Afro-Cuban Religious Influences in Miami and Cuba. The Second Biennial Allen Morris. Florida State University, Tallahassee,

Hansing , K. (2002, February 28). From Periphery to Paradigm: Caribbean Contributions to Transnational Theory. Anthropology Department Colloquium. New York University

Hansing , K. (2001, November 30). Rastafari in a Different Kind of Babylon. American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC

Hansing , K. (2001, July 31). The Globalization of the Rastafari Movement. Third International Meeting of Socio-Religious Studies. Havana, Cuba: Centre for Psychological and Sociological Studies.

Hansing , K. (2001, April 30). Daring to be Different: Rastafari Narratives from Cuba. Narratives of Home and Belonging. University of London: Goldsmiths University.

Hansing , K. (2000, October 31). Rasta, Race and Revolution: Transnational Connections in Socialist Cuba. Third International Conference on Cuban Studies. Miami: Florida International University.

Hansing , K. (2000, September 30). Rasta and Resistance: A Global Perspective. ASWAD conference. New York University, NY: The African Diaspora in the New Millennium.

Hansing , K. (2000, June 30). Afro-Cubans and Social Capital. Social Capital in Latin American Reality. University of Oxford: Latin American Centre.

Hansing , K. (2000, June 30). Race and Youth in Contemporary Cuba. Caribbean Studies Association. St. Lucia

Hansing , K. (2000, February 28). The Emergence and Development of the Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. University of Oxford

Hansing, K. (1999, November 30). 'Rastafari in Global Perspective'. American Association of Religious Studies Meetings. Boston

Hansing, K. (1999, December 31). 'Afro-Cuban Youth and the Rastafari Movement in 1990s Cuba'. Rethinking Race in Cuba. University of London: Institute for Latin American Studies.

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Hansing, K. (2016,April 1). "Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976 -1991'. American Historical Review.

Hansing , K. (2009,January 1). Cuban Human Rights and the US Embargo: A View From Below. Intercultural Human Rights Law Review.

Research Currently in Progess

Hansing, ,.(n.d.). Breaking the Silence: Cuban Memories from the War in Angola. In Progress.

Hansing, ,.(n.d.). The Return of Race-based Inequalities in Contemporary Cuba: the role of migration, remittances and foreign citizenship. In Progress.

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