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Professor Clarke was educated in her early years in Canada. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Concordia University in 1988. Her graduate work was completed in the United States – an M.A. was from the Department of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research, a Master in the Study of Law from Yale University (MSL), and a Ph.D. (1997) from the University of California, Santa-Cruz. During her academic career she has held numerous prestigious fellowships, grants and awards – a two-year President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, a Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council of Canada fellowship, Ford Foundation, Wenner Gren Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation grants, and in her leadership capacity at Yale University she led her Council into securing a four-year 1.5 million grant US Government Title VI NRC and FLAS grant.
Professor Clarke’s research explores issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, international law, the interface between culture, power and globalization, and its relationship to race and modernity. Clarke's research interests have taken her to intentional Yoruba communities in the American South, traditionalist religious and legal domains in Southwestern Nigeria, international criminal tribunals, and international law training sessions in Ireland, London, Geneva, Banjul, The United Nations and beyond. She serves on several scholarly and advisory boards and is the founding director of the Center for Transnational Cultural Analysis at Yale. Over the years she has lectured throughout various regions of the United States, Canada, West and South Africa, England, and the Caribbean and taught courses on Globalization, Transnationalism, and Modernity, Rethinking Human Rights, Contemporary Social Theory, Religious Nationalism, Race and Empire, and the Anthropology of Religion.
| Current Institution | Yale University |
| Department | Anthropology, African-American Studies |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 10 Sachem Street, Room 224 New Heaven Connecticut 06520-8277 United States Phone: (203) 432-3685 |
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Education
Yale University
Law School
M. S. L
(2003)
University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D.,
Anthropology
(1997)
University of California, Santa Cruz
M.Phil,
Anthropology
(1994)
Work Experience
Professor
Yale University
(2010 - Present)
Associate Professor
Yale University
(2003 - 2010)
Achievements
- US Department of Education, Title VI Grant – African Studies – PI (1.5 Million) (2010 - 2014)
General
Publication Summary
Publications:
Books (authored)
In Progress
- Of Dreamers and the Limits of the Law: Dilemmas in the Exercise of Religious Freedom. Book Proposal Under Review.
2009
- Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge University Press.
2004
- Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Books (edited)
2011
- (edited, with Rebecca Hardin) Testimonies and Transformations: Reflections on the Uses of Ethnographic Knowledge. University of Wisconsin Press.3
2009
- (edited, with Mark Goodale) Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post Cold War Era. Cambridge University Press.
2006
- (edited, with Deborah Thomas) Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Other Volumes (edited)
Ongoing
- Series Editor for book Series Entitled, Negotiated Settlements. University of South Africa Press/Duke University Press. Four Volume Series Aimed at a General Reading Audience.
2005
- Local Institutions, Global Controversies: Islam in Sub Saharan African Contexts. The MacMillan Center Working Paper Series. Editor. New Haven, CT.
2005
- (with Deborah Thomas) Globalization and Race: Towards an Understanding of the Transformation of Blackness. YCIAS Working Paper Series. Editor. New Haven, CT.
Journal Articles
In Preparation
- Beyond the Veil: When Religious Difference Clashes with State Accommodations
In Preparation
- Recasting the African Victim. International Journal of Global Legal Studies. Fall 2010.
Fall 2010
- Constituting Terms for International Change: Reflecting on Strategies for Women’s Rights. ASIL.
Fall 2010
- Globalizing Race IN Race: Are We So Different? (Deborah Thomas and Kamari Clarke). Wiley-Blackwell. New York.
Fall 2010
- The Politics of Faith and the Limits of Scientific Reason: Tracking the Anthropology of Human Rights and Religion. Critical Reviews on Religion and Culture.
Fall 2010
- Rethinking Africa through its Exclusions: The Politics of Naming Criminal Responsibility. Anthropology Quarterly. Special Issue: Rethinking Africa in the Neoliberal World. Jean Comaroff, Achille Mbembe, Jesse Shipley.
Fall 2010
- Toward a Critically Engaged Ethnographic Practice. Current Anthropology: A Journal of the Human Sciences. The Wenner Gren Foundation For Anthropological Research: New York. Special Issue with Editors Sally Merry and Setha Low.
Fall 2010
- The Politics of Incommensurability: Making Sense of the Spread of “Human Rights,” 4 Making Sense of Legal Difference. Humanity.
2010
- “New Spheres of Transnational Formations: Mobilizations of Humanitarian Diasporas” in Transforming Anthropology. Volume 18 (1) Spring 2010.
2009
- Oyotunji Village: A Movement in the Making. African American Religious Culture Encyclopedia Project. BC-CLIO World Religions Project
2007
- “Transnational Yorùbá revivalism and the diasporic politics of heritage,” American Ethnologist Volume 34, Number 4. November 2007.
2007
- “Yoruba in the American South,” New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, vol. 6, Ethnicity. June/July. University of Mississippi.
2006
- Human Rights. Anthropology News. American Anthropological Association.
2006
- “Internationalizing the Statecraft: The ICC, Religious Revivalism, and the Cultural Politics of Genocide,” The Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, volume 28, issue 2.
2002
- “Governmentality, Modernity, and the Historical Politics of Oyo-Hegemony in Yoruba Transnational Revivalism,” Anthropologica: The Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society. Volume 44-42: 271-293
Book Chapters
In Preparation
- “Rethinking Human Rights” Human Rights: Critical Dialogues editor. Mark Goodale. Oxford University Press.
In Preparation
- Transnational Ifa: The Readings of the Year and the Contemporary Economies of Orisa Religious Knowledge. In Sacred Knowledge, Sacred Power: Ifa Divination in West Africa and The African Diaspora. Edited by Jacob K. Olupona.
2010
- “Toward a Critically Engaged Ethnographic Practice,” Testimonies and Transformations: Reflections on the Uses of Ethnographic Knowledge. Edited by Rebecca Hardin and Kamari Clarke. University of Wisconsin Press.
2009
- “The Cultural Aesthetics of Sàngó Africanization,” Sango in the African and African Diaspora. Edited by Joel E. Tishken,, Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi.
2007
- “The International Criminal Court: A Path to International Justice?” Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives. Edited by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and Toby Kelly. Cambridge University Press.
2007
- “Rethinking the Yoruba in Yoruba Cultural Practices,” Orisa Tradition in Local and Global Contexts. Edited by Jacob Olupona and Terry Rey. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI.5
2006
- “Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage,” Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of
- Blackness. Edited by M. Kamari Clarke and Deborah Thomas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
2006.
- Yoruba Aesthetics and the Making of Trans-Atlantic Imaginaries,” African Aesthetics: Essays on Beauty and Ugliness. Edited by Sarah Nuttall. Duke University Press. 2006. Durham.
2005.
- “Yoruba Aesthetics and the Making of Trans-Atlantic Imaginaries,” African Aesthetics: Essays on Beauty and Ugliness. Edited by Sarah Nuttall. Amsterdam: The Prince Claus Fund; London: Phaidon; South Africa: Kwela Books. 2005.
1999
- “To Reclaim Yoruba Traditions is to Reclaim the Gods of Africa: Reflections on the Uses of Ethnography and History in Yoruba Revivalism,” Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights. Edited by Rae Anderson, Sally Cole, and Heather Howard-Bobiwash. Pp. 229-242. Broadview Press: Peterborough.
Books
Globalization and RaceKamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing... |
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