E-Mail: dpardue@artsci.wustl.edu

Phone: (314) 935-5252

Derek Pardue is a cultural anthropologist. His primary research has been about hip hoppers in São Paulo, Brazil, where he spent more than four years in residence. His new project is on "creole citizenship" among Cape Verdean youth in Lisbon, Portugal. Derek's interests include ethnomusicology and race, graphic design, sociology of sports, restaurant design, and city life. His ethnography, Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop, and edited volume, Ruminations on Violence  were published in 2008.