Book Talk: Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States; Prof. Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha

Eziaku Nwokocha is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. She is a scholar of Africana religions with expertise in the ethnographic study of Vodou in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. Her research is grounded in gender and sexuality studies, visual and material culture and Africana Studies.

An ethnographic study of fashion, spirit possession, and gender and sexuality in contemporary Haitian Vodou, exploring Black religious communities through their innovative ceremonial practices. The book is featured within the series Where Religion Lives.

In collaboration with UNC Press and Stone Center.