LaShandra Sullivan is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on historical reconfigurations of relations with land and landscapes, racialized and gendered labor, queer politics, and property. Much of this work centers on collaborations with activists who contest historical and ongoing oppression through myriad forms of protest—both formal and informal, spectacular and quotidian. Sullivan also studies the more mundane ways that the seemingly ephemeral aspects of daily life like practices of meaning-making, coping, and spiritual dimensions of relations between people (and things) arise out of material histories. Sullivan is interested in how such moments dually instantiate both the repetitions and transformations of those histories: practices of endurance and possibilities for rupture. Sullivan conducts ethnographic and archival research in two different regions of Brazil (i.e., in Mato Grosso do Sul and Rio de Janeiro). 

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