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Affiliation Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey

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Mailing Address Director, Center for African Studies 202 Beck Hall 99 Avenue E Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8045 USA

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Research Interests History of evangelical missions in Africa ; Colonial history, gender and religion.

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Publications * 2006 Evangelical Christians in the Muslim sahel. African systems of thought. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ***Winner of the 2007 Melville J. Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association of the United States. 2001 "The Strength in the Song: Muslim Personhood, Audible Capital and Hausa Women's Performance of the Hajj," in Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives, edited by Dorothy Hodgson, Palgrave. pp. 79-104. 2001 "The Politics of Difference and Women's Associations in Niger: Of Prostitute, the Public, and Politics,"in "Wicked" Women and Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa, edited by Sheryl McCurdy and Dorothy Hodgson, Heinemann: pp. 255-273. 2000 "Ferdinand Oyono's Houseboy: Intimate Colonialism and the Arts of Resistance," in African Novels in the Classroom, edited by Jean Hay, Heinemann, pp. 229-240. 1998 "Gender and Religion in Hausaland: Variations in Islamic Practice in Niger and Nigeria," in Diversity Within Unity: Gender Dynamics and Change in Muslim Societies, edited by Herbert Bodman and Nayereh Tohidi, Lynne Rienner, pp. 21-37. 1998 "Niger: Peoples and Cultures" in Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by John Middleton et al. Charles Scribner's Sons Reference Books, 1998, vol. 3, pp. 300-1. 1997 Marriage in Maradi : gender and culture in a Hausa society in Niger, 1900-1989. Social history of Africa. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann; Oxford : J. Currey, c1997. 1997 "Gender, Movement, and History: Social and Spatial Transformations in 20th Century Maradi, Niger," in Environment and Planning Development: Society and Space, 15 (1997): 195-221. [ French edition: << Le genre sexuel, le mouvement et l'histoire :transformations sociales spatiales au XXè siècle à Maradi au Niger >>, translated by Denise Ganderton and reprinted in Géographies Anglo-Saxonnes: Tendances contemporaines, edited by Jean-François Staszak et al, Berlin, 2001, 80-94.]

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