Current Research

 

 

I am drawn to projects that challenge conventional wisdom. My research today is concerned as much with unsettling scholarly paradigms as it is with producing new knowledge and unexpected perspectives on the contemporary world around us. To this end, my current book project looks to trouble the taken-for-granted correspondences between race, religion, and cosmology by exploring their disjunctures and novel articulations in the context of Spiritual Baptist Christianity, an important but understudied Afro-Caribbean religious tradition in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to engaging important and enduring cross-disciplinary concerns about religious and cultural difference, this book will contribute to existing scholarship on religion in the African diaspora, race and religious identity, religious space and materiality, and the anthropology of religion.