Paul Grant

Author and Historian: I teach on African history and cross-cultural religious encounter. American by birth, I was raised in Switzerland. My first book, a trade paperback on the White Evangelical reconfiguration of coolness, was published in 2006. At the time I was an autodidactic intellectual, interested in everything but needing discipline. My second book, a monograph on Ghanaian history, was the outcome of submitting to a rigorous training in history and biography.

Healing and Power in Ghana (Baylor U. Press, 2020) tells a fascinating story of people becoming new people as they rebuild disrupted lives in cross-cultural community. Set in the decades immediately preceding British colonialism in the Gold Coast, the history is deeply humane.