13 Facts About Erwan Dianteill

Erwan Dianteill is Senior Laureate of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2012 and Non-Resident Fellow of the W E B Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University since 2017.

Erwan Dianteill is a specialist in the anthropology of African and African-American religions.

Erwan Dianteill has twice served as Chair of the Department of Social sciences of the Paris Descartes University, then University of Paris.

Erwan Dianteill was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Tulane University; the University of Buenos Aires; the National University of Honduras; the University of Havana; the University of Vienna; the University of Salento; and Harvard University.

Erwan Dianteill conducts a critical reading of the history of anthropology and sociology of religions.

Erwan Dianteill has done researches on Afro-American cultures, on the evolution of autochthonous religions in West Africa and on new Christian churches.

Erwan Dianteill published two books on Afrocuban religions in Havana and one book on the African American Spiritual Church in New Orleans.

Erwan Dianteill has shown the meaningful link between Ifa divination and Arab and Latin geomancy in the Middle Ages.

Furthermore, Erwan Dianteill has traced the history of the Church of Ifa since its founding in the early 1930s in Nigeria and Benin.

Erwan Dianteill has carried out ethnographic and historical research in these colonial and port cities, all part of the Atlantic slave trade and creolization places for African and European civilizations.

Erwan Dianteill is counselor for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the French National Commission of the UNESCO.

Erwan Dianteill was President of the Intergovernmental Council for the Management of Social Transformations of the UNESCO, which includes 35 countries.

Erwan Dianteill was previously vice-president of the same council from 2017 until 2019, representing Western Europe and North America.