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Robert Baum
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Robert Baum is an associate professor in the Religion and
African and African American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. His first
book, Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in
Pre-Colonial Senegambia won an American Academy of Religion award for the
best first book in the history of religions (2000). He has written numerous
articles on the history of Diola religion, religious constructions of gender,
indigenous religions and is currently completing a book on the history of Diola
women's prophetic movements. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University, and
upon graduation, he received a Watson Fellowship. He spent an entire year in a
Diola village in southern Senegal, where he learned the language and began
field research before beginning graduate school at Yale University. He returned
to Senegal for two more years, and did archival work in London and Paris in
preparation of his Ph.D.
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