Alice Aterianus-Owanga was recently appointed assistant professor in anthropology at the University of Neuchâtel. Prior to that position, she was a research fellow at the University of Lyon 2, LAHIC/IIAC, IFAS Johannesburg, University of Lausanne, University of Cape Town, and University of Geneva. Over her PhD and postdoc researches, she worked on popular music (hip-hop), politics, and identity in Gabon; on Senegalese dance circuits between Europe (France and Switzerland) and Senegal (Ambizione Grant "Embodying Africanity"); and finally on Afro-latin dances and racial/gender boundaries in Cape Town (Marie Curie Grant "Dancetopias"). She is the author of a series of papers in academic journals, and she edited several special issues of journals. Her first single-authored book was inspired by her PhD research on rap in Gabon, and received a prize from the French music academy Charles Cros. Her second single-authored book, forthcoming this year at Paris Nanterre University Press, deals with the postexotic encounters of Senegalese dancers and their students in France and Switzerland. She has also directed four documentary films, and she uses documentary films as a means of ethnographic collaboration and dissemination of research. Her research interests include the anthropology of popular music and dance; rap and hip-hop studies; globalization and transnationalism; identity theories; African studies and postcolonial studies; pan-Africanism and Afrocentrism; masculinities, femininities and gender in African cities.