Expertise

Research interests:

  • gender
  • sexuality
  • Afro-Caribbean spirituality
  • Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography

Research + Teaching Interests

  • gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography
Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences, Louisiana State University

Professor, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington
2019

Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Louisiana State University

International Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Louisiana State University

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Department of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

African Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Women's Studies, English, Gender Studies, International Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Folklore and Folklife, 2002
MA, University of Pennsylvania, Folklore and Folklife, 1997
BA, University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology, 1994