About Me

             

Dissertation Coach • Scholar • Academic Leader • Creative Writer 

 

  To see my CV, go to the “Professor” tab above & click “Curriculum Vitae” on the pull-down menu.

 

  • Dissertation Coach

    •  Compassionate guidance and insightful editorial feedback at all levels of the process, from Thesis Development and chapter editing to final proofing
    •   Effective help writing and common hurdles from writers’ block to the rabbit hole of research
      •  students have hailed from Berkeley, Cambridge (UK), Georgetown, Princeton University, Standford, TCU
  • Scholar of  African and the African Diaspora religions
    • My work is interdisciplinary: Cultural Anthropology, History of Religions, Women and Gender , Ritual and Performance, and Postcolonial Theory
  • Academic Leadership

    • Authored 4 successful Accreditation Reports for WASC (Western Association of Schools and Colleges) and created the MODEL that WASC adopted for all its institutional reporting
    • Administrative Consultant to the Provost (at Pacifica) and the Graduate Program in Theology & Religious Studies at Georgetown University
    • Leader in the American Academy of Religion and the African Studies Association :

      • Coordinator, African Religions Group (AAR) – six years
      • Founding member, African Diaspora Group (AAR)
      • ASA Women’s Caucus Steering Committee
  • Editorial and Advisory Boards:
    • Religious Studies Review
    • Religion Compass Journal
    • Journal of the American Academy of Religion
  •  Creative Writer
    • Won several Writers’ Residency Awards for Creative Non-Fiction
    • Prize Awarded in Ethnographic Writing from the Society of Humanistic Anthropology

Other (unexpected) things about me –

    • I am a Swiss citizen as well as American, and speak fluent French as well as Italian.
    • I hold a Level II certification as Yoga Instructor and also have certification in Yoga Nidra, a meditation-based form of deep integration.
    • I am studying Taiji.

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