2017 [Book Review] Religious Tolerance.” Volume American Ethnologist, “Beyond 44:3 2016 Chasing the Spirit (FILM REVIEW by Randy Baier); Comparative Studies in Cambridge: Volume 58: 3, (July 2016). Society and History, Current Research My current research integrates peace and justice, political-economy, anthropology of religion, and activist anthropology. A new co-edited book Vodun and Spirit Service” is forthcoming from Indiana “Global University Press and involves esteemed academics on Africa and Haiti, with contributions from art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists—it will be submitted in full by September 2018. A second book is called Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the “Shackled African Diaspora” and involves articles from Africa, to Haiti and Brazil—a contract has been signed with Rowman and Littlefield and will be submitted in full by September 2018. Other research involves a recent submission to The Journal of Conflict Resolution called Violent Extremism in Africa with Culture, Technology, and Conflict “Countering Resolution”. I am finishing up an invited chapter on Human Trafficking and Global Health for a Cambridge Press volume on Global Health edited by Izzeldin Abuelaish. My colleague and I are hard at work on a third film on Vodu in Togo with a focus on medicine and spirit possession. This past (July 2018) has seen a positive review of our book of a “Ethnography Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo”, another book review on political ethnography in Togo, both in the American Ethnologist. For the Journal of Black Studies, I am completing an article on the 1967 Detroit Rebellion and collective memory and violence. I just completed organizing two conferences/workshops: the 2018 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Wayne State University, and the first in the Streets” conference with “Peace Rotary International, in both we held panels on: gun violence, dispute resolution, cultural relativity, gender equality, stereotyping, bullying, and peacemaking. My research integrates anthropology, conflict resolution, sociology, religion, and political economy. My specialties include interfaith dialogue, peace and technology, collective memory and violence, and the study of sub-altern and marginalized groups, namely the Ewe Vodu worshippers of Ghana and Togo, and African-Americans in Detroit and Flint, my home cities.
2017 [Book Review] “Beyond Religious Tolerance.” American Ethnologist, Volume 44:3 2016 Chasing the Spirit (FILM REVIEW by Randy Baier); Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cambridge: Volume 58: 3, (July 2016). Current Research My current research integrates peace and justice, political-economy, anthropology of religion, and activist anthropology. A new co-edited book “Global Vodun and Spirit Service” is forthcoming from Indiana University Press and involves esteemed academics on Africa and Haiti, with contributions from art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists—it will be submitted in full by September 2018. A second book is called “Shackled Sentiments: Slaves, Spirits, and Memories in the African Diaspora” and involves articles from Africa, to Haiti and Brazil—a contract has been signed with Rowman and Littlefield and will be submitted in full by September 2018. Other research involves a recent submission to The Journal of Conflict Resolution called “Countering Violent Extremism in Africa with Culture, Technology, and Conflict Resolution”. I am finishing up an invited chapter on Human Trafficking and Global Health for a Cambridge Press volume on Global Health edited by Izzeldin Abuelaish. My colleague and I are hard at work on a third film on Vodu in Togo with a focus on medicine and spirit possession. This past (July 2018) has seen a positive review of our book “Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo”, another book review on political ethnography in Togo, both in the American Ethnologist. For the Journal of Black Studies, I am completing an article on the 1967 Detroit Rebellion and collective memory and violence. I just completed organizing two conferences/workshops: the 2018 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Wayne State University, and the first “Peace in the Streets” conference with Rotary International, in both we held panels on: gun violence, dispute resolution, cultural relativity, gender equality, stereotyping, bullying, and peacemaking. My research integrates anthropology, conflict resolution, sociology, religion, and political economy. My specialties include interfaith dialogue, peace and technology, collective memory and violence, and the study of sub-altern and marginalized groups, namely the Ewe Vodu worshippers of Ghana and Togo, and African-Americans in Detroit and Flint, my home cities.