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Research Interests & Work in Progress

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

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

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

Affiliations

• Graduate Committee, Department of Anthropology University of Toronto, member
• Academic Board Coordinator, Graduate Journal of Social Science, member
• American Anthropological Association (AAA), member
• Centre for Ethnography, UTSC, Associate Director

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

• Ghanaian Pentecostal Prophets: Travel and (Im)-Mobility, In Kristine Krausse and Gertrud Huewelmeier (eds) Travelling Spirits, Migrants, Markets, And Moralities. Routledge (2010).
• Prayer, Migration and changing notions of Transformation among members of a Pentecostal Church in Ghana and London, In T.C. McCaskie and Keith Shear (eds), Africans at Home and Abroad: Social Aspirations and Personal Lives. University of Wisconsin Press (forthcoming).
• The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora. In Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani (eds) Diaspora and Transnational Studies Companion. Blackwell Publishers (forthcoming).