Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana)

Submitted: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:34:41 -0500



Adeline Masquelier
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Tulane University
1021 Audubon Street
New Orleans, Louisiana  70118  USA

phone:    504-862-3047
fax:      504-865-5338
e-mail:   amasquel@tulane.edu



I received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993. For the last
fifteen years, I have been doing research in rural Niger initially on
spirit possession and since 1994 on reformist Islam. 

I have published extensively on bori practices in Dogondoutchi, a
Hausaphone community of southern Niger. My book Prayer Has Spoiled
Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town in
Niger was recently published (2001, Duke University Press).  

I have published articles on twinship, witchcraft and the pathology of
consumption, and popular representations of healthcare in Niger and also
contributed essays on healing, clothing and Islamic identities to edited
books.

My interests include medicine, gender, commoditization and ritual
processes in the postcolonial world. My current research focuses on a
reformist Islamic movement known as Izala, and more specifically on issues
of knowledge, tradition, and morality and the recent controversies
surrounding worship, dress, and bridewealth among other things.  I am
presently working on an edited book on nudity and dirt in cross- cultural
perspective.

I teach courses on gender, medicine, religion, clothing and dress,
colonialism, Sub-Saharan Africa, and anthropological theory.