Dew Drop
2836 LaSalle Street
¡A bailar! Get ready to twist, shimmy, and shake your cintura with a Cuban dance party jam session hosted by Cuba Nola Arts Collective, Victor Campbell, and Clandestina.
We will be joined by Yusa, Jafet Perez, David Navarro, Anier Alonso, and many other local and visiting Cuban and Caribbean musicians. You don't want to miss this party.
Clandestina, a Cuban sustainable fashion brand, will have a pop-up shop onsite.
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Awards give opportunities to U.S. citizens to teach, research and carry out professional projects around the world. Join us for an interactive session to explore Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program opportunities available to scholars in Brazil. Join us to hear directly from the Fulbright Commission in Brazil about their awards and program alumni who will share about their experience. Fulbright staff at IIE will also share details about the program and the application process while answering your questions live.
Main Library
New Orleans Public Library
On April 30, 2024, in celebration of Día del Libro (Children’s Book Day), Colombian musician Gaita Loop will visit the Main Library branch of the New Orleans Public Library. Gaita Loop is a young artist from Barranquilla, Colombia who loops the traditional gaita (indigenous wind instrument of the Colombian Caribbean) with electronic beats. This event is being produced in collaboration with NOPL and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Political violence, Criminal violence, Political behavior, Democratic erosion, Research ethics
Comparative politics, democratization, redistributive politics, political economy of development, Latin American politics, historical natural experiments
Mayan archaeology, Political Science
Environmental and Energy Economics
My research explores how performance fosters group cohesion across cultures and geographic distances. Initially focusing on New Orleans’ Latin American community, my current work examines belonging, identity, and intercultural performance in diverse contexts, including global higher education as well as Brazilian peripheral communities.
My first book, Post-Katrina Brazucas: Brazilians in New Orleans (UNO Press, 2012), utilized literary and cultural studies, performance, dance, and ethnography to explore migration and hybrid identities. This research extended into a book chapter on Brazilian immigrant performances in Performing Brazil.
My second book, Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the 18th Century (co-authored, LSU Press, 2015), reflects my activism within the local Latin American community. It won the J.B. Jackson Book Prize and earned me the Cervantes Award for contributions to the Hispanic American Arts Foundation of New Orleans. This work examines the impact of Hispanic and Latino communities on New Orleans' development.
My later research examined immigrant communities in São Paulo, focusing on literary saraus (soirees) that redefine public engagement with literature, emphasizing the body as a literary component offering multisensory knowledge.
At Tulane, my administrative roles have driven my interest in interdisciplinary methodologies connecting my interest in immigration studies to student mobility and intercultural development in study abroad. This includes analyzing factors like class size, program models, immersion levels, living situations, language acquisition, and traumatic events on students’ intercultural growth.
I also work as a certified leadership and resiliency coach through the Tulane Leadership Institute, certified by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I am a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).
Intercultural Learning and Study Abroad, Latinos in New Orleans, Cuban and Brazilian performance cultures, Brazilian immigration to the US
Eric Johns joined the Stone Center in 2023 as Archivist & Curator for the Centennial Project, overseeing the discovery and preservation of historic documents pertaining to the Center’s history. As a part of the Center’s centennial celebration in 2024, he is engaged in curating and preparing critical archival materials for an innovative digital humanities project, providing researchers with access to materials and telling engaging stories about the Center’s history through data visualization projects. Prior to joining Tulane, Eric was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Riverside’s XCITE center. His research interests include musicology, critical historiography, nationalism, critical race studies, and embodied pedagogy.
Key Responsibilities: Collaborating with the Executive Director and Centennial Project Team to develop and implement strategies for selecting, organizing, and digitizing critical archival documents. Establishing project scope, benchmarks, and workflows to ensure timely completion.
Reviewing and classifying archival materials from the Stone Center, and University Archives. Preparing these materials for research use by arranging them, creating finding aids, and ensuring proper archival processes for scanning.
Overseeing the scanning process of archival materials, ensuring accuracy and adherence to established project protocols. Supervising the creation of metadata by graduate students and maintaining quality control throughout the digitization process.
