Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies
My work lies at the intersections of religion and healing, both broadly construed. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] Trained as a socio-cultural anthropologist, my research projects since 2008 have centred on the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda, where I have conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on postcolonial violence, haunting, human-spirit relations, and ethics. I am interested in a wide range of issues that include subjectivity, ethics, temporality, social change, religiosity, trauma and the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural legibility of suffering, witchcraft and conspiracy, and debates about morality, ritual expertise, and authenticity in Acholi society and beyond. Currently, I am working on a book manuscript about ghostly vengeance and spiritual pollution in contemporary post-war Acholi.[/read]
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