• Maroon Societies
• Plantationocene
• Multispecie Anthropology
• Caribbean Societies

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. She was a Post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, a visiting professor at New York  University, a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a Tinker Professor at the University of Chicago. She is a Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) Researcher and the Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation (FAPERJ) Fellow. Her research
interests include creativity, plantation, and plantationocene in effects in the Caribbean, focusing mainly on the Maroon cosmopolitics in South America and the Caribbean. Among her books are The Things of  Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artifacts (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2020) and the edited volume
Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, creativity, and Incorporation (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2018).