Ruth A. Marshall

Associate Professor
JH 300
416-978-0241
ruth.marshall@utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Political Theory
  • Comparative Politics
  • Development Studies

Areas of Interest

  • Religion and Politics
  • Political Philosophy
  • Post-Colonial Theory
  • Africa: esp. West Africa
  • Transnational Religions
  • War and Violence
  • Youth Militias
  • Sovereignty
  • Citizenship
  • Ethno-Nationalism
  • Autochthony
  • International Interventionism

Biography

Ruth Marshall received her DPhil in Politics from Oxford University. She is the author of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria (U. Chicago Press, 2009) and numerous scholarly articles on the study of global Christianity and politics; religion, ethnicity and citizenship in West Africa (Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire). Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary, drawing on political science, political philosophy, study of religion, anthropology, African and postcolonial studies. In 2013-14 she was a Faculty Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute.

Education

MESc, Queen's University
MIA, Columbia University
DPhil, University of Oxford