User:EricMontgomery2002/sandbox/Eric J. Montgomery, PhD, Anthropologist

Eric J. Montgomery is a Cultural Anthropologist and Assistant Professor at Michigan State University where he serves as the Peace and Justice Adviser; he is also a faculty member in the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Much of his research circulates around Vodun/Vodou (“Voodoo”) which is the most misunderstood religion on earth. He is the co-author of the book “Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo” (BRILL, 2017), and editor and contributor to “Shackled Sentiments: Memory and Slavery in the African Diaspora” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). He is also the lead editor and contributor to a forthcoming book on Global Voodoo and Empowerment with Indiana University Press. Eric is the director and producer of two films Chasing the Spirit and African Herbsmen stemming from ethnographic research in Western Africa. Dr. Montgomery’s recent publications encompass social justice writ large: human trafficking, global health disparities, critical race theory, interfaith dialogue, social justice and digital story-telling. His current teaching load includes Peace and Justice Anthropology; Peace and Conflict Studies; Social Movements; Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery; Anthropology of Africa; Science, Technology, and War; Global Health Disparities; and Human Rights. Some recent publications can be found in The Shaman, African Studies Review, Sapiens, The Applied Anthropologist, Journal of Religion and Society, Journal of Africana Religions, Visual Anthropology, American Ethnologist, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, ETropic, Museum Anthropology, Belt Magazine, and Journal of Ritual Studies.

Professor Montgomery has created and taught over 30 different courses cross-listed with such fields as anthropology, political science, history, physics, sociology, public health, and peace/conflict and justice studies. https://michiganstate.academia.edu/EricMontgomery www.culturerealm.com