Kamari Maxine Clarke (Ph.D., UC-Santa Cruz 1997) is a professor of anthropology at Yale University and research scientist at the Yale Law School. She is the Chair of the Council on African Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of African American Studies.

Trained in Political Science-International Relations at Concordia University, in Anthropology at both the New School for Social Research and the University of California-Santa Cruz, and Law at the Yale Law School, her areas of research explore issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, international law, the interface between culture and power and its relationship to the modernity of race and late capitalist globalization. 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.

Recent articles and books have focused on religious and legal movements and the related production of knowledge and power, including the 2004 publication of Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities (Duke University Press), the 2006 co-edited publication of Globalization and Race:
Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (Duke Press), and Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge University Press). Her edited volumes include Testimonies and
Transformations: Reflections on the Uses of Ethnographic Knowledge (with Rebecca Hardin), and Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (Cambridge Press).

Over the past years, Professor Clarke has lectured in regions of the United States, Canada, 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.

Mailing address:
Department of Anthropology
Yale University
P. O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277

* Office address in Anthropology:
Room 224, 10 Sachem Street

* Office address in MacMillan Center
342 Rosenkranz Hall

Tel: (203) 432-3685
Fax: (203) 432-3669
Email: kamari.clarke@yale.edu

Curriculum Vitae

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