About Corinna J. Moebius, Ph.D.
Corinna J. Moebius, Ph.D., is a writer, cultural anthropologist, and public historian who studies the magic and rituals of power—and the role of place (and the “making” of place) in shaping what we believe, how we belong, and how we navigate loss of home.
She co-authored A History of Little Havana, and her forthcoming Magic Cities: Little Havana and the Rituals of Power braids history, ethnography, public memory, and decolonial insight to reveal how urban spaces become “altared” landscapes—sites of racial power, and sites of repair.
Trained in cultural anthropology and critical geography, and a lifelong student of magic and the Living Earth, Corinna works across disciplines and worlds. She creates immersive walking tours, counter-mapping projects, experiential workshops, and the Core-Respondence framework, helping people cultivate belonging, resilience, and deeper relationship with place.
Over more than two decades researching Miami’s Little Havana, she has interviewed numerous community stakeholders, studied public rituals and monuments, and traced symbolic geographies of diaspora and resistance. For years she has also guided community organizations, museums, and universities through conversations about race, ritual, migration, memory, and community storytelling.
Her work invites readers and learners to sense the thresholds in their own lives—those portal moments where loss and light coexist—and to navigate them with courage, creativity, imagination, and care.
What I Do
Writing, research, and place-based learning that deepen belonging, memory, and critical awareness.
I help people attune to places, and to how ritual, memory, and power shape what we notice and what we overlook. I design talks, workshops, and walking experiences that translate scholarship into embodied learning and help communities and organizations tell truer, more inclusive stories of place.
Current Work
Magic Cities: a public-facing history of race, ritual, and urban power.
My forthcoming book, Magic Cities: Little Havana and the Rituals of Power traces how landscapes become “altars” that reproduce racial orders — and how people enact counter-rituals and acts of repair. Centered on Little Havana/Calle Ocho, with hemispheric links to Havana and Washington, D.C., it blends archival research, ethnography, and cultural analysis for a broad audience. Learn more.
Core-Respondence: a framework for place-based learning, creative repair, and relational awareness.
Through workshops, rituals, and guided experiences, Core-Respondence helps people cultivate deeper relationship with place, memory, and their own thresholds.
Selected Credits
Books, recognition, teaching, and public scholarship.
- Co-author, A History of Little Havana (The History Press, 2015).
- Recognized nationally for immersive, critically engaged walking tours; featured in international media.
- Traveling Visiting Faculty, School for International Training (SIT), Cities in the 21st Century: People, Planning & Politics (Spring 2024).
- Director of Research & Education, Justice & Sustainability Associates (2020–2022).
- Adjunct Lecturer (Anthropology & Sociology), Florida International University (2019–2022).
Education & Training
- Ph.D., Global & Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University (Alex Stepick Award for Outstanding Dissertation)
- Certificate in Permaculture (regenerative design) (hands-on training with Koreen Brennan)
- uLab: Leading From the Emergent Future 1.0 and 2.0 (global systems change)
Approach & Values
Critical and caring; experiential and accessible.
I pair critical race analysis with embodied, place-based methods — walking, storytelling, dialogue, arts practice, and ritual. My aim is to deepen understanding while opening paths for relationship, accountability, and repair. I honor the cultural, emotional, historical, and spiritual dimensions of place, and I invite learners into a more grounded, relational way of knowing.
Offerings
Talks, workshops, consulting, and immersive walking experiences.
- Talks & Keynotes: Race, ritual, memory politics, Cuban diaspora, altared landscapes.
- Workshops / Facilitation: Place-based learning integrating story, movement, ritual, and reflection (Core-Respondence).
- Consulting: Narrative audits, inclusive heritage/tourism strategy, interpretive planning, Main Street and cultural district initiatives.
- Walking Experiences/Alternative Walking Tours: Immersive, critically engaged walks through Little Havana and other geographies.
Contact & Booking
Invite me to speak, teach, consult, or design an experience.
For speaking, workshops, consulting, collaborations, or press inquiries, please reach out.