Tammy Wilks

Bio

Tammy Wilks examines the dynamics of 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, seeds and foodways, material culture, vernacular, and ritual practices.