JoAnn D'Alisera

Associate Professor
(Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Email: dalisera@uark.edu

Teaching Interest:

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, The Anthropology of Religion, Museums, Material Culture, and the Popular Imagination, African Religions: Gods, Witches, Ancestors, Peoples and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa, The Anthropology of the City

Selected Publications:

An Imagined Geography: Sierra Leonean Muslims in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004); "Icons of Longing: Homeland and Memory in the Sierra Leonean Diaspora," PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 25(2):73-89, 2002; "I Islam: Popular Religious Commodities, Sites of Inscription, and Transnational Sierra Leonean Identity," Journal of Material Culture 6(1): 89-108, 2001; "Field of Dreams: The Anthropologist Far Away at Home," Anthropology and Humanism 24(1): 5-19, 1999; "Born in the USA: Naming Ceremonies of Infants among Sierra Leoneans in the American Capital," Anthropology Today 14:16-18, 1998.