Professor, Afroamerican and African Studies
ashforth@umich.edu
Office Information:
LSA DAAS
4700 Haven Hall
505 S State St
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
African Studies Center;
ASC Faculty
Education/Degree:
PhD, University of Oxford 1987
About
Adam Ashforth has published extensively on state formation and the political implications of spiritual insecurity in everyday life in South Africa. During South Africa's transition to democracy he spent many years living and writing in Soweto. He is currently researching responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in everyday life in rural Malawi and ethnic conflict in Kenya's Rift Valley. His publications include three books: The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa (Oxford, 1990); Madumo, A Man Bewitched (Chicago, 2000); and Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago, 2005) [winner of the Herskovits Award, 2005].
