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Alex Perullo

Alex Perullo is a professor of anthropology at Bryant University in the United States. While his early scholarship, including the ethnography Live from Dar es Salaam and the musical collection Listen All Around, focused on the rise of music economies in East and Central Africa, his more recent research expands into the field of public health. He is currently examining aging and health among African populations in the United States and East Africa, as well as a comparative four-country study on community responses to rising rates of anxiety and loneliness. This study has shown how cultural traditions, local resources, government policies, and social networks can either exacerbate personal health problems or serve as pathways to improve one’s personal well-being. Perullo also works with the African Alliance of Rhode Island (AARI), collaborating on initiatives that support immigrant communities through health programs, cultural exchange, and urban agriculture. A former Fulbright Scholar and Centenary Scholar at SOAS, University of London, and recipient of a Mellon Foundation fellowship, Perullo’s career combines fieldwork and hands-on community engagement to generate solutions to pressing social and health-based problems.