Adeline Marie Masquelier (born 1960) is a Professor of

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Biography

She received her baccalaureate in

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and

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(with honors) at Centre St. Marc, in

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(1978), her B.A. in

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(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980), and M.A. in

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at Carbondale, 1984). She also received her Ph.D. from the

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in 1993 studying under the prominent Africanist and

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Jean Comaroff, and has done her field work among the people of rural

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town of Dogondoutchi. Her research focuses have included

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, reformist Islam, Bori religious practices, twinship,

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, the pathology of consumption,

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, and

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. Currently she is the executive editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa (since January 2008) and is researching the Izala Islamic reformist movement in Niger, examining issues including

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, worship, and dress.

Awards and fellowships

* 1987- 1989

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Dissertation Research Fellowship * 1988-1989

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

Dissertation Research Grant * 1987-1988 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant * 2004-2005

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Fellowship * 2005-2006

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Fellowship * 2010-2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

Works

*''Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town in Niger'' (2001) *Behind the Dispensary's Prosperous Facade: Imagining the State in Rural Niger, ''Public Culture'' Vol.13, No.2 Public Culture 13.2 (2001) 267-291 *''Dirt, Undress, and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Body's Surface'' (2005) *The Scorpion's Sting: Youth, Marriage and the Struggle for Social Maturity in Niger, ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute'', Vol.11, No.1 (March 2005). *When Spirits Start Veiling: The Case of the Veiled She-Devil in a Muslim Town of Niger, ''Africa Today'', Vol.54, No.3 (Spring 2008). *''Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. *Bodies, Politics, and African Healing: The Matter of Maladies in Tanzania by Stacey A. Langwick. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. *Regulating Romance: Youth Love Letters, Moral Anxiety, and Intervention in Uganda's Time of AIDS. Shanti Parikh. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2015. *Fada: Boredom and Belonging in Niger. (April 23, 2019)

References

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List of publications
Cultural anthropologists Anthropologists of religion American Africanists Tulane University faculty University of Chicago alumni 1960 births Living people {{reli-anthropologist-stub