Corinna J. Moebius, Ph.D.
Writer & Cultural Anthropologist Exploring Belonging, Ritual, Power & Place
I trace how places—from homes and neighborhoods to memorial landscapes and nations—carry lived meanings and ritualized power. The practices I share cultivate belonging, repair, and braver conversation.
Co-author of A History of Little Havana.
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Current Projects
Magic Cities
A transnational history of Miami’s Little Havana, Havana, and Washington, D.C.—where monuments, trees, and streets become altars of power. Part history, part cultural analysis, written for a broad public.
Core-Respondence
A practice that helps people re-orient to place/home and rethink “self” through story, movement, and ritual, without reproducing exclusionary narratives. Tools for belonging, repair, and action.
Little Havana
Resources, walking tours, and research on Little Havana’s (and Calle Ocho’s) layered histories: ritual, memory, and resistance in Miami’s most storied neighborhood.
Speaking & Workshops
Invite me to help your audience see places—and power—anew. Or take one of my workshops, and practice belonging and repair through story, movement, and place.
Talk Topics
- Magic Cities:
Ritual, Power & the Places We Make - Core-Respondence:
Practices for Finding “Home” in a Shaky World (also offered as a workshop) - From Monuments to Altars:
Rethinking Public Memory - Walking as Method:
Designing Transformative Site Encounters - Beyond “Placemaking”:
Arts for Core-Respondence in Public Spaces - Inclusive & Regenerative Tourism:
12 Principles in Practice
Writings
Nostalgia for Places of the Past
In September of 2024, I moved back to my childhood home -- not the house, but the community of Western Massachusetts where I grew up. I haven't lived here for decades, but it was time to come back, to spend time with my aging parents, and to have an anchor before I...
The Garden: Digging into Stories
In my neighborhood’s community garden, we share the tasks, work together, and share the day’s harvest. This is how we cultivate a spirit of community.
I’m Corinna J. Moebius, Ph.D., a writer, cultural anthropologist, and guide focused on belonging, ritual, and power in places at every scale—from domestic spaces and neighborhoods to memorial landscapes, regions, and nations.
My work follows how meanings and power flow through the places we inhabit, and how small, intentional practices can repair relations and build courage. I share stories, tools, and movement-based methods that help people attend to place without reproducing exclusion.
Co-author of A History of Little Havana, my forthcoming Magic Cities braids history, ethnography, and public memory. My work cultivates inclusive, regenerative practices grounded in decolonial thinking and relational ways of being and knowing.