Scholarly Books Published

Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 

Race, Nation and Religion in the Americas. co-edited with Henry Goldschmidt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 249-255.

Scholarly Books in Progress

Transnational Pentecostalism:  Spiritual Warfare at the Crossroads.  Prospectus for monograph reviewed by University of California Press, manuscript in progress.

Scholarly Articles Published

"Globalization and the Religious Production of Space." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 44, No. 3, September 2005.

"Teaching September 11th," Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion, Vol. 30, No. 4, November 2001. Click here to view the full text as a .pdf file. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file, and you can get that here.

"The Rite of Baptism in Haitian Vodou." In Colleen McDannell, ed., Religions of the United States in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001: 354-363.

"Love, Sex, and Gender Embodied: the Spirits of Haitian Vodou." In Nancy Martin and Joseph Runzo, eds., Love, Sex and Gender in the World Religions. Oxford: Oneworld Press, 2000: 129-145.

--[This essay also translated into French and reprinted as " Amour, sexe et genre incarnés; les esprits du vaudou haitien" in the French journal Africultures No. 58 (Jan. 2004).]

" The Jew in the Haitian Imagination: Premodern Anti-Judaism in the Postmodern Caribbean." In Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutch, eds., Black Zion:  African-American Religious Encounters with Judaism.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 2000: 203-227. Click here to view the full text as a .pdf file. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file, and you can get that here.

"The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited:  Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism" in R. Stephen Warner, ed., Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration. Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 1998, 123-160.

--[This essay was reprinted in a collected volume titled African American Religious Thought:  An Anthology, edited by Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Louisville, KY:  Westminster John Knox Press, 2003, 942-977.]

"New York, Lavalas, and the Emergence of Rara." Journal of Haitian Studies, Vol. 2, Number 2 (Autumn 1996): 131-139.

" A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Visual Art of Magic in Haiti." In Donald J. Cosentino (ed.) Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995: 304-321.

--[This essay was translated into French and republished as " une bouteille de sorcier: L'Art visuel de la magie en Haiti" in Vaudou, co-edited by the Abbaye de Daoulas et les Editions Hoebeke in Brittany, France, 2003.]

" Sacred Stories from the Haitian Diaspora: A Collective Biography of Seven Vodou Priestesses in New York City." Journal of Caribbean Studies, Vol. 9, Nos. 1 & 2 (Winter 1993): 10-27.

Magazine Articles, Essays

"The Lucky Ones," a mother-daughter story of love and war by Lovely Nicolas and Liza McAlister, published on Oxygen.com. Click here to view the full text as a .pdf file. You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the file, and you can get that here.

"Haitians Make Some Noise in Brooklyn," on Rara in New York, The Beat, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Summer 1991): 28-29.

"Ton Ton Club," on music in Haiti since Duvalier, Mirabella and New York Woman, January 1990.

"Voodoo," New York Woman, March 1988.