Cassie Osei

Educational Background

• Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• B.A., University of Kansas

Teaching & Research Specialties

• Latin America & the Caribbean
• Modern Brazil
• African Diaspora in the Americas
• Race, class, and gender
• Labor history
• Inequality in the Americas
• Black Diasporic feminisms

Research Interests

Professor Osei specializes in the history of Latin America, African Diaspora, and modern Brazil. Her work is centered on Black Brazilian perspectives on urban life, politics, and inequality, with special attention to Black women. Her current project focuses on Black-determined meanings of social mobility, development, and their aesthetics in late twentieth and early twenty-first century São Paulo. Osei’s work has been supported by the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) and Fulbright-Hays programs.