Research Projects
2017 to present: Beyond the Powers That Be: Epistemologies of Authority and Legitimacy in Malawi
2008 to 2017: Religion and Politics in South-Eastern Africa (post-doctoral project)
2001 to 2008: Mental Disorder and the Social Construction of Normality in Southern Malawi (PhD project)
Field Research
2019 to 2020: Political Cosmologies and the Legitimization of Power (Malawi), funded by York University
2008 and 2009 to 2010: Medicine, Religion, and Political Representation in Social Discourse (Malawi, Mozambique), funded by the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics
2001 and 2004 to 2005: Who is Disabled? Disability and Its Social Consequences (Malawi), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1998: Social Life and Cosmology in Board Games in Eastern and Southern Africa (Malawi, Tanzania)
1997: Kinship and Joking Relationships in Kagera District (Tanzania)
