Having taught university for twenty-three years in nine different disciplines (Music, Theology, Religion, American Studies, African American Studies, Popular Culture, English, Leadership, and International Studies) at such universities as Duke, Carolina at Chapel Hill, Richmond, South Carolina at Columbia, and Ferris University in Japan, and having published a dozen books and founded and edited a Duke University Press academic journal, I bring disiplined form and interdisciplinary substance to y
our writing. Having made more than three dozen research trips to Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and to over sixteen countries in the west, east, south, and north of Africa and then lived abroad for most of the last seven years, I bring the world to your writing so that the provincial reads with a spirit global.
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