Ansioluettelo

I have been teaching Anthropology at the University of Helsinki since 2022.  In 2009-2020 I was a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies and before that, a Research Associate at Newcastle University in 2007-2009. My anthropological interests revolve around politics, inequality, religion, health, migration, and colonialism, and I am interested in developing multimodal and decolonial methods in my teaching and research. I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean and its diaspora since 1996. My publications include Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2018) and Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (Duke University Press, 2012). I am working on a monograph on everyday politics in an impoverished neighbourhood in Port of Spain and I am the PI in the project 'Imagining Futures in the Margins of the State: Everyday Politics in Urban Communities in Trinidad and Zimbabwe', funded by the Kone Foundation (2024-2026).