IAHR Executive Committee Members 2010-2015
President: Rosalind I. J. Hackett, USA
Rosalind I. J. Hackett is currently Professor and Head of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. I also serve as adjunct faculty in the Department of Anthropology, and as Faculty Associate at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at UT. From 2003-08, I was a Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. In 2008, I received the Lorayne Lester Award for Outstanding Service for my coordination of the Jazz for Justice Project in northern Uganda and UT. I taught in
Nigerian universities from 1975-1983, while conducting fieldwork. My
graduate degrees are from the University of London (M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Religion, 1978) and the University of Aberdeen
(Ph.D. Religious Studies, 1986).
As a specialist on the religions of Africa, I have published widely on new religious movements in Africa (New Religious Movements in Nigeria, ed. 1987), religious pluralism (Religion in Calabar, 1989), art (Art and Religion in Africa, 1996), gender, the media, and religion in relation to human rights (Religious Persecution as a U.S. Policy Issue, co-ed., 1999). I recently edited Proselytization Revisited: Rights Talk, Free Markets, and Culture Wars (London: Equinox, 2008), and a co-edited work (with James H. Smith) is in press Religious Dimensions of Conflict and Peace in Neoliberal Africa (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2010).
I am currently working on a co-edited volume with Benjamin Soares, New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa, for Indiana University Press, and another with Simon Coleman on An Anthropology of Global Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism for NYU Press.
For full CV and web page, see http://web.utk.edu/~rhackett
