Misty L. Bastian

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Associate Professor and Chair
Affiliation	Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Email	misty.bastian@fandm.edu
Mailing Address	Department of Anthropology Franklin & Marshall College P.O. Box 3003 Lancaster, PA 17604-3003 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 717-358-4479 fax: 717-358-4500
Websites	http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/bastian.html
Countries of Specialization	Nigeria
Research Interests	My dissertation work (U. of Chicago, 1992) was on gender, cosmological construction and the popular cultures of a large market complex in Onitsha, Nigeria. Since that time I have written and published widely on Nigerian religious practice, popular culture and gender. I did a short project on Nigerian immigrants in the United States, particularly in their virtual personas as members of the Naijanet internet community. I also did historical work on gender, youth, missionization and resistance among Igbo-speaking peoples from the 1870s to 1930. Currently I am looking at the potent combination of Nigerian militarism and neo-Pentecostal Christianity and about to start a longer term project on charismatic Catholics and Marian apparitions in the southeastern part of the country
Publications	None on file
Keywords	religion ; popular culture ; Nigerian immigrants.