- Phone:
- (812) 855-2732
- Email:
- solioter@iu.edu
- Department:
- Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Department of Gender Studies
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
800 E. 3rd St., 213
800 E. 3rd St., 213
About Solimar Otero
Education
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2002
- M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1997
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1994
Research interests
- gender
- sexuality
- Afro-Caribbean spirituality
- Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography
Courses recently taught
- Folklore and Literature (grad seminar)
- Readings in Ethnography (grad seminar)
- Performance Studies (grad seminar)
- Gender and Fairytales
- Women's Folklore
- Folklore in Video and Film
- Undergraduate Proseminar in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Awards + Distinctions
- Indiana University Presidential Arts and Humanities Award for the Spanish Translation of Archives of Conjure by Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2024.
- Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions for Archives of Conjure, 2021
- Elected Fellow of the American Folklore Society, 2021
- Reed Foundation Grant, 2019
- Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund Fellowship, Research in Cuba and at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013
- Research Associate and Visiting Faculty, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, 2009-2010 academic year
- Fulbright IIE Grant for Research in Nigeria (2000)