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I am a social anthropologist specialising in the study of religion, with a particular interest in how people live and build communities across religious and social difference.
My doctoral research at LSE was based on 22 months of fieldwork in Senegal, principally in Dakar and later in Casamance. It examined Muslim–Catholic relations through the ordinary spaces and relationships of the everyday, asking what living together across religious difference reveals about belonging, personhood and social life. I am continuing to think with these questions through emerging research on religious pluralism, marginality and incarceration, alongside broader interests in the anthropology of religion and West Africa.
Teaching is a central and rewarding part of my academic practice. At LSE, I have taught across foundational and specialist areas of anthropology, as well as for the LSE Summer School, where I introduce students from a wide range of academic backgrounds to anthropological perspectives and ways of seeing the world. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and value the classroom as a space in which research, ethnographic insight and students’ own perspectives can inform one another.
Beyond academia, I am passionate about engaging in wider conversations concerning religion and contemporary life through public talks and writing for wider audiences. Public-facing research has been a longstanding part of my work, including previous roles at Theos, a religion and society think tank, and with BBC Arts and BBC Four.
I hold a PhD in Anthropology and an MSc in Social Anthropology (Religion in the Contemporary World) from LSE, and a BA in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics from King's College London.
Expertise
Religious Pluralism; Interreligious Relations; Sub-Saharan Africa; Senegal