Cultural Anthropologist, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Peace and Justice Advisor, Michigan State University, 2019-present
Faculty, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Wayne State University, 2014-present
Faculty, Anthropology Department, Wayne State University, 2003-present (intermittent)
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Central Michigan University, 2016-present.
Senior Researcher, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Lentz Science and Saperstein Peace Fellowship, Wayne State University, 2020-present.
Books
2022 Spirit Service: Vodun and Vodou in the Atlantic World. Indiana University Press. Editor and
Contributor (with Vannier, and Landry). https://iupress.org/9780253061911/spirit-service/
2019 Shackled Sentiments: Spirits, Slaves, and Memory in the African Diaspora, Rowman and
Littlefield/Lexington Books, Editor and Contributor. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498585989/Shackled-Sentiments-Slaves-Spirits-and-Memories-in the African-Diaspora
2017 Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo: Of Spirit, Slave, and Sea. With CN Vannier,
(Book) BRILL Publications: Religion in Africa series 2017: 46. http://www.brill.com/products/book/ethnography-vodu-shrine-southern-togo
** A new book (2022) “Digital Storytelling and Social Justice” manuscript accepted (with Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri and Beth Drexler)