Since 2017, I have researched the development of and current challenges facing Protestant evangelical churches in Southern Africa. This research forced the bulk of the material supporting my doctoral dissertation at Brandeis University, and I continue to learn from South Africans about the connections between their evangelistic efforts and global dynamics and cultural shifts. Below are several of the works based on this fieldwork.
The Sins of Our Ancestors: Conservative Evangelical Christianity and Cosmological Responses to Racial Division in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Doctoral Dissertation, Brandeis University, 2022
Pentecostal Promise and a South African Dream Deferred
From Africa Is a Country, March 31, 2020
The Prosperity Gospel and an Unprosperous Reality in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Conservative Evangelical Responses to Charismatic Christianity
Wits Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities, 2019
Aging and the End Times: Evangelical Eschatology and Experiences of Elderhood in the United States and South Africa
In Anthropology & Aging 40(1):32-47, 2019
In Living Color
Photo series from my fieldwork in South Africa, 2018-2019
Fieldwork Dispatches
Informal reflections on fieldwork experiences and initial impressions from my first trip to South Africa in July 2017
Evangelistic Failures and Imperial Anxieties among Nineteenth-Century American Missionaries to the Zulu
Science, Religion, and Culture Symposium Presentation, Cambridge, MA, 2017