Education

• BA, Bowdoin College
• MA, University of Virginia
• PhD, University of Virginia

Research Interests

• The history of East African religious movements
• Indigenous religions, Christianity, and Islam in Western Kenya
• Gender and religion in Africa
• African indigenous religious rituals
• History of religions, theory and method

Teaching

• The Religious Quest (RELG 1500)
• Introduction to African Religions (RELA 2750)
• Christianity in Africa (RELA/C 3890)
• Women and Religion in Africa (RELA/AAS 3000)
• Religious Themes in African Literature and Film (RELA 4559)
• Christian Missions in Contemporary Africa (RELA 4085)
• Crafting a Research Project in Religious Studies (RELG 4800/RELG 5801)
• Theories in the Study of Religion (Co-taught; RELG 5170)

Selected Work

• Millennialism on the Margins: Islam and Patterns of Religious Change in Colonial Western Kenya.  Book manuscript in-progress.
• "The Roho Churches of Kenya.” Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy. Edited by V.Y. Mudimbe and Kasereka Kavwahirehi. Springer Publishing. In Press.
• "Possessing Spirits, Powerful Water and Possible Continuities.” In East African Revival: History and Legacies, edited by Brian Ward and Emma Wildwood. Ashgate Publishers, 2012, 73-87.
• “Henry Owuor Anyumba.” Dictionary of African Biography. Edited by Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press. 2011.
• Women of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith and Gender in Roho Religion in Western Kenya. Oxford University Press. 1996.