Marcial Godoy Managing Director

Marcial Godoy is a sociocultural anthropologist and the Managing Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. He is the former Editor of emisférica (with Jill Lane), the Institute's trilingual online journal. His publications include "Area Studies and the Decade after 9/11" (2016); Religiones, matrimonio igualitario y aborto: Alianzas con y entre actores religiosos por los derechos sexuales y reproductivos en Argentina (2014) with Daniel Jones y Angélica Peña; Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (2013) with Zeynep Gambetti; and Ciudades Translocales: Espacios, flujo, representación—Perspectivas desde las Américas (2005) with Rossana Reguillo. From 2000-2007, he worked in the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and the Program on International Collaboration at the Social Science Research Council. Godoy is a Co-investigator and Research Cluster Lead for "Hemispheric Encounters: Developing Transborder Research-Creation Practices," a 7-year Partnership Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and recently Section Co-chair of the Arts, Music, and Performance Studies section for the 2024 Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress in Bogotá, Colombia. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).