Introduction

Dr Tammy Wilks examines religion and belonging in Nairobi, Kenya. Her research explores how religious communities forge and maintain belonging in a city beset by change, crisis, and conflict and regards these forms of belonging as infrastructural to the making of Nairobi. She employs this research focus in her teaching to investigate how communities in Africa create, communicate, and preserve their texts and teaches a range of texts including oral histories, sermons and khutbahs, material culture, vernacular, and ritual practices.

Selected Publications

• Wilks, T., 2022. Bypassing the Bulldozer: The Materiality of State Violence on Religion in Kibera, Nairobi, in van Liere, L. and Meimena, E. eds. Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Things of Conflict. Brill. 73-93.

• Wilks, T., 2022. Coexisting in Color, Material Religion. 18(2): 278-281.