Jean Muteba Rahier is Professor of Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies at Florida International University (FIU), where he served as director of the African & African Diaspora Studies Program from 2008 to 2016. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the Université de Paris X, at Nanterre, France. He is the author of three books, and the editor or co-editor of four books. He has authored more than 80 articles and book chapters, and was, from January 2002 to the summer 2007, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. He is currently working on a book temporarily titled “Theorizing the African Diaspora in the 21st Century: From Diachronic Approaches to Synchronic Orientations“.