History and Sociology of Science
Senior Lecturer, Critical Writing Program
Critical Writing Program
Education
Research Interests
Medical Anthropology and History, African Christianity, Medical Hesitancy, Colonial West African Physicians, Global Health, Transnational Migration, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica, the US
Selected Work
Under Contract. The West African Revival: Faith Tabernacle Congregation on the Guinea Coast, 1918-1929. Baylor University Press. Studies in World Christianity Series.
2013. Enchanted Calvinism: Labor Migration, Afflicting Spirits, and Christian Therapy in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. University of Rochester Press. Rochester Studies in African History and Diaspora.
2021. The Economic Rationality of Religious-Based Medical Abstinence in the early Twentieth Century: the Case of Philadelphia’s Faith Tabernacle Congregation. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 76.2: 147-66.
2020. Faith Tabernacle Congregation, the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic and Classical Pentecostalism in Colonial West Africa. Studies in World Christianity 26.3: 219-38.
