Habilitated Doctor (Doktor Habilitowany) degree, awarded by University of Warsaw in November 2024 Fulbright Visiting Professor, at West Chester University, USA.
2016-2017: Visiting Professor, Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico.
2015: Visiting Professor, PhD Program in Social Sciences, Colegio de San Luis A.C.
2012: Member of the National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) in México.
January 2012: Level 2. PhD. University of London, 2009.
Sergio González Varela is an Assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. He holds a Ph.D. from University of London (awarded in 2009). Before joining the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, he was Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.K. He has studied capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual-martial art dance, for more than twenty years and is a leading expert in the field.
Books:
El arte de engañar: ensayos de antropología social (2022). Capoeira, Mobility and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World (2019).
Entre dos mundos: la antropología radical de Paul Stoller (2018) Power in Practice: The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira (2017).
Habilitated Doctor (Doktor Habilitowany) degree, awarded by University of Warsaw in November 2024 Fulbright Visiting Professor, at West Chester University, USA.
2016-2017: Visiting Professor, Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico.
2015: Visiting Professor, PhD Program in Social Sciences, Colegio de San Luis A.C.
2012: Member of the National System of Researchers (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) in México.
January 2012: Level 2. PhD. University of London, 2009.
Sergio González Varela is an Assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw. He holds a Ph.D. from University of London (awarded in 2009). Before joining the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, he was Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico. He has done ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.K. He has studied capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian ritual-martial art dance, for more than twenty years and is a leading expert in the field.
Books:
El arte de engañar: ensayos de antropología social (2022). Capoeira, Mobility and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World (2019).
Entre dos mundos: la antropología radical de Paul Stoller (2018) Power in Practice: The Pragmatic Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Capoeira (2017).
