Kara Ellis Skora (University of Virginia)

Submitted: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:34:05 -0400 (EDT)


Kara Ellis Skora
Ph.D. Candidate, Dept.of Religious Studies
Dissertation Fellow, Carter Woodson Institute

Mail address:
University of Virginia 
102 Minor Hall
Charlottesville, Virginia  22903  USA

phone:    804-979-1589 
	  804-924-3109
e-mail:   kes2d@faraday.clas.virginia.edu

I am a Historian of Religion focusing on African Religions and writing my
dissertation on Asante funerals in modern-day Kumase, Ghana.  I am also
interested in the history and anthropology of witchcraft in West Africa.
My other areas of research are in Islam and in gender issues.