I am a PhD candidate from Indiana University who is at Howard University 2010/2011 under a Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship. I spent 2008 In Ghana conducting research in traditional religion at the Akonnedi Shrine of Kubease-Larteh in the Eastern Region. I will be pursuing teaching and research in the area of African traditional religion and its interface with the African American community and the on-going spiritual warfare being waged against traditional religion by some Christian sects of the new-age (1980's) Pentacostal/Charismatic movements. These fundamentalist groups argue that traditionalists are Satanic and backward, while declaring themselves as purveyors of modernity and progress. I also have keen research interests in the anthropology of slavery which includes the scourge of present-day human traffficking. Others areas I study include the anthropology of religion, race and ethnicity, and African American alternative religion/roots heritage travel.

Location

Washington, DC 20024

Disciplines

• African American Studies
• Religion
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Education

Affiliation

Indiana University/Howard University