Matthias Röhrig Assunção
Guest Speaker - 2006
Matthias Röhrig Assunção is a senior lecturer at the Department of History, University of Essex and author of Capoeira, The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art (London & New York: Routledge, 2005). He studied History and Latin American Studies in Paris (Vincennes, Jussieu and Sorbonne Nouvelle). After some years spent carrying out field research in Brazil he completed his PhD at the Free University in Berlin. From 1985 to 1992 he taught History at the Latin American Institute in Berlin, before coming to Essex in 1993.
