Dartmouth College

Faculty Member, Religion

Assistant Professor

Thesis Title: "Narrative, Seasoning, Song: Praxis, Subjectivity, and Transformation in an African-American Lucumí Community"

About

I am a scholar of Afro-Atlantic religious formations. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in March, 2010. Courses I have taught include "Religion and American Culture," "Gender and Religion in the African Diaspora," "African Religions of the Americas," "Envisioning Vodoun: Haitian Popular Religion in Historical Perspective," and "The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Tilma to Tattoo." I also drew on my ethnographic experience and training as a historian of religions to teach two courses at Carleton College in Spring 2010: "Religion and Music in Cuba" and "Goddesses."

I spent 2010-2011 as a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley, carrying out a research project entitled, “Between Bodies and Worlds: Women and ‘Trans’ People in the Lucumí/Santería Tradition." I am now an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College, where I offer a variety of classes on Religions in America, among other subjects in my field. A Winter 2012 course entitled "Religion, Healing, and Medicine" explored diverse ideas and forms of healing in the contemporary United States.

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