Member Profiles

As Lecturer in Global Religion and Politics in the Department of Politics, Philosophy & Religion, I work on religion, culture and politics in Africa and the Americas. My primary focus is global evangelicalism, particularly Pentecostal Christianity in Brazil and Nigeria, and my side projects include Brazilian Spiritism. While I am trained as a global historian, my research interests are fundamentally interdisciplinary and have as much to do with the present as the past. They include faith and modernity; health and healing; the supernatural in politics; race; national identity; globalization; and global and comparative methodologies.