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WRC Religion in Public Life in Africa and the African Diaspora

Jacob Olupona

Jacob Olupona

Faculty Associate (on leave spring 2020); Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Religion in Public Life in Africa and the African Diaspora.
Professor of African Religious Traditions, Harvard Divinity School; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests: Religious practices of African immigrants to the United States.

Personal website
42 Francis Ave.
Room 114
Cambridge, MA 02138
olupona@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-8221
Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Faculty Associate. G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music, Department of Music; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Research interests: Ethnomusicology; musical ethnography; African Horn and new African communities abroad; migration; diaspora; memory; and ritual studies.
Personal website
Music Building
North Yard
Cambridge, MA 02138
f: (617) 497-1791
shelemay@fas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 495-4008
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Todne Thomas

Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Religion in Public Life in Africa and the African Diaspora.
Suzanne Young Murray Assistant Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Assistant Professor of African American Religions, Harvard Divinity School.
Research interests: The familial and spiritual experiences of black evangelicals and the neoliberal displacement of black sacred space.
Divinity Hall 306
Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: (617) 998-5387