Joseph Hellweg is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor in the Religion Department at Florida State University. He has done research among and with dozo hunters in Côte d’Ivoire (Hunting the Ethical State, U. Chicago Press, 2011), N’ko healers in Guinea and Mali (Living the City in Africa, eds. Obrist, Arlt & Macamo, LIT Verlag, 2013), and LGBTQ+ persons in Côte d’Ivoire (Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa, eds. van Klinken & Chitando, Routledge, 2016). He is past president of the Mande Studies Association (an affiliate organization of the African Studies Association) and co-editor-in-chief of its journal, Mande Studies (Indiana University Press). He is deputy editor at the Journal of Religion in Africa (Brill) and co-editor of the “Religion in Transforming Africa” book series for James Currey/Boydell & Brewer (UK). He has also published articles in Africa, the African Studies Review, Africa Today, Afrique contemporaine, Journal of Africana Religions, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and book chapters in several edited collections.
