E-Mail: dpardue@artsci.wustl.edu

Phone: (314) 935-5252

Derek Pardue (B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst; M.M. University of Texas, Austin; Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is a cultural anthropologist. His primary research is about hip hoppers in São Paulo, Brazil, where he spent more than four years in residence. His interests include ethnomusicology and race, graphic design, sociology of sports, restaurant design, and city life. His ethnography, Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop, is in press with Palgrave MacMillan Press (http://www.palgrave.com/products/Results.aspx?SC=Derek%20Pardue&Type=AU).