Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Anthropology of Religion
• Transnationalism
• Pentecostalism
• Spirit-mediums & African Traditional Religion
• Ghana, England & North America

Teaching Interest & Responsibilities

• Culture, Politics and Globalization
• The Anthropology of Transnationalism
• Conceptualizing Religion

Affiliations

• Centre for Ethnography, UTSC
• Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, UofT
• Graduate Department for the Study of Religion, UofT

Awards & GRANTS

• 2009 CERIS Research Grant $12,500. "Citizenship and Suburban Space: Intersections of Housing, Services, Identity and Belonging for Newcomers in Kingston/Galloway/Orton Park, Scarborough". Principal Investigator. Collaborators: Professors Susan Bunce and Magie Cummings.
• 2008 Student Experience Fund (SEF), Student Summer Ethnographic Research Project. $3500. Co-recipient with Professor Maggie Cummings.
• 2008 SSHRC Institutional Grant, (SIG), Spirit Mediums, Local Histories and Global Identities in Southern Ghana. $2750, Principal Investigator.

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

1. In preparation. Looking Back, Moving Forward: Pentecostal Transformation and Ethical Practice in Ghana and London.
   

Edited volumes

1. 2013, with Ato Quayson. Diaspora and Transnational Studies Companion, Wiley-Blackwell.
   

2. 2011, with Susannah Bunce and Maggie Cummings. Citizenship and Urban Space: Settlement for Newcomers to Kingston-Galloway/Orton Park, CERIS.
   

Articles

1. In preparation. ‘Taking Back the City: The Moral Spatio-Temporalities of Ghanaian Pentecostals in London’.
   

2. In preparation. ‘Christian Uncertainty and Ethical Practice in a Ghanaian Pentecostal Church’.
   

3. 2011. ‘(In-) Dividual Pentecostals in Ghana’, Journal of Religion in Africa 41(3): 256-279.
   

4. 2010. ‘Transformation and Migration Among Members of a Pentecostal Church in Ghana and London’, Journal of Religion in Africa 40(4): 424-474.
   

Book chapters

1. Forthcoming. ‘The Globalization of Pentecostalism and the limits of globalization in a Ghanaian Pentecostal Church’. In Michael Lambek and Janice Boddy (eds.) Companion to the Anthropology of Religion, Blackwell Publishers.
   

2. Forthcoming. ‘The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora’. In Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani (eds.) Diaspora and Transnational Studies Companion. Blackwell Publishers.
   

3. 2013, with A. Quayson. ‘Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scopes and Scales.’ In Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani (eds) Diaspora and Transnational Studies Companion. Wiley-Blackwell.
   

4. 2012. ‘Global Pentecostal Networks and the problems of Culture: The Church of Pentecost in Ghana and Abroad’. In Michael Wilkinson (ed.) Global Pentecostal Movements: Migration, Mission, and Public Religion. Brill.
   

5. 2010. ‘Ghanaian Pentecostal Prophets: Travel and (Im)-Mobility’. In Kristine Krausse and Gertrud Huewelmeier (eds) Travelling Spirits, Migrants, Markets, and Moralities. Routledge Press.
   

Book review

1. 2007. ‘David Maxwell’s ‘African Gifts of the Spirit: Pentecostalism & the Rise of a Zimbabwean TransnationalReligious Movement’, Journal of Southern African Studies 33(3).