Curriculum Vitae

Joseph R. Hellweg

March 12, 2020

General Information

University address: History and of Religions Department of Religion College of Arts and Sciences Dodd Hall M04A, PO Box 30615520 Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1520 Phone: 850.567.1155; Fax: 850.644.7225

E-mail address: [email protected]

Web site: http://religion.fsu.edu/faculty_joseph_hellweg.html

Professional Preparation

2001 Ph.D., University of Virginia. Major: .

1988 B.A., Carleton College, Minnesota. Major: Sociology and Anthropology.

Nondegree Education and Training

2006 National Science Foundation Summer Research Methods Institute Meeting, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM.

2005 National Science Foundation Summer Research Methods Institute, Duke University Research Lab, Beaufort, NC.

2003 Yale International AIDS Summer Institute, Yale University.

2002 United Nations World Intellectual Property Rights Colloquium for West Africa, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

1993–1994 Jula Language Studies, University of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

1993 Bambara Language Studies, Indiana University.

1993 Theater Studies, National Theater Institute, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

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Professional Experience

2012–present Associate Professor, Religion, Florida State University.

2017–2018 David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, East Carolina University.

2008–2012 Assistant Professor, Religion, The Florida State University.

2003–2008 Assistant Professor, Anthropology, The Florida State University.

1998 Adjunct Instructor, Anthropology, University of Missouri, St. Louis.

1998 Curriculum Designer, African Lab, Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity, University of Missouri, St. Louis.

1991–1993 Editorial Assistant, Language in , Cambridge University Press.

1990–1992 Teaching Assistant, Anthropology, University of Virginia.

1989–1990 French Instructor, Shattuck-St. Mary's High School, Faribault, MN.

Language Proficiency

French - fluent in speaking, reading, and writing. Mandénkan - fluent in speaking, reading, and writing. Spanish - rudimentary in speaking, reading, and writing.

Visiting Professorship(s)

2008–2009 Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Kankan, (Africa).

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

Faculty Seminole Award (Nominated) (2016). Developing Scholar Award, Florida State University (2014). Nominated for the Graduate Mentor Award, Florida State University (2011). Honors in the Major Mentor Award, Florida State University (2006). In the Spirit of Carleton Award, Carleton College, MN (2001). Professional Recognition Award for Distinctive Service in Diversity Education, Center for

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Human Origin and Cultural Diversity, University of Missouri, St. Louis (1999).

Fellowship(s)

Committee on Faculty Research Support, Summer Award (2011–2012). Fulbright Fellowship Six-month Extension, , (Africa) (2009–2010). Fulbright Lecturer/Research Fellowship, University of Kankan, Guinea (Africa) (2008–2009). National Institute of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow in HIV/AIDS (2001–2003). Carter G. Woodson Institute Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship (1999–2001). Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship (1994–1997). Rotary Foundation Fellowship (1993–1994).

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

African Religions Section, American Academy of Religion African Studies Association American Academy of Religion American Anthropological Association Association for African Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Fulbright Association Mande Studies Association Society for the , American Anthropological Association

Teaching

Courses Taught

Readings for Examination (RLG6904) Dissertation (J. Miller, R. Peters) (RLG6980-04) Religion in Africa (46 undergraduates) (REL3370) What Is Religion? (18 undergraduates) (REL4044) Grant Writing (C. Carter) (RLG5937-06) Honors in the Major (T. Dennis) (REL4932-03) & Cosmology (4 graduate students) (RLG5195-01) Kinship & Cosmology (G. Harris) (REL4190-01) Preliminary Doctoral Exams (J. Miller, R. Peters) (RLG8964-02) Readings for Exam (J. Miller, R. Peters) (RLG6904-04) Religion & Public Health in Africa (7 undergraduate students) (REL3936-02) Religion & Public Health in Africa (B. Butool) (5937-05) Africanist Literature (C. Carter, Z. Walker) (RLG5906-07) Comprehensive Doctoral Exams (J. Miller, R. Peters) (RLG6904-03) Dissertation (R. Henry) (HUM8985-02) Ethnographic Field Methods (RLG5195-02)

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Honors in the Major (T. Dennis) (REL4932-01) Religion in Africa (REL3370) Mooré Language Study II (J. Miller) (RLG5906-08) Religion, Africa, and the Black Atlantic (C. Carter, J. Miller, Z. Walker) (RLG5906) Religion, Race, and Public Health in the Black Atlantic (East Carolina University) (RELI4500) Mooré Language Study I (J. Miller) (RLG5906) Religion in the Black Atlantic (C. Carter, J. Miller, Z. Walker) (RLG5906) Security, Ritual, and Politics in Africa (East Carolina University) (RELI4500) Dissertation (R. Henry) (HUM6980) Dissertation (R. Henry) (HUM6980) Ecstatic Religion (RLG5937) Ecstatic Religion (REL3936) Ecstatic Religion (REL3936) Ecstatic Religion (RLG5937) Honors in the Major: Narratives of al-Hallaj (B. Robinson) (REL 4932) Honors in the Major: Narratives of al-Hallaj (B. Robinson) (REL4932) MA Thesis Defense (R. Dyehouse, J. Miller) (RLG8976) Master's Theses (R. Dyehouse, J. Miller) (RLG5971) Master's Theses (R. Dyehouse, J. Miller) (RLG5971) Masters Theses Defenses (R. Dyehouse, J. Miller) (RLG8976) Supervised Research (A. Dyehouse) (RLG5911) Supervised Research (MA, R. Dyehouse) (RLG5911) What Is Religion? (REL4044) What Is Religion? (REL4044) Honors in the Major: Narratives of al-Hallaj (B. Robinson) (REL4932) Master's Theses (T. Bobbitt, R. Dyehouse, J. Miller) (RLG5937) Readings in African and African Diasporic Cultures (RLG5937) Religion in Africa (RLG5937) Religion in Africa (REL3370) What Is Religion? (REL4044) Field Methods in the Study of Religion and (REL4190) Field Methods in the Study of Religion and Culture (RLG5195) What Is Religion? (REL4044) Readings in African Religions (RLG5906) Religion in Africa (REL3370) Religion in Africa (RLG5937) What Is Religion? (REL4044) Honors in the Major: Christianity in Brazil (J. Porter) (REL4932) Introduction to Religion (RLG5035) Religion in Africa (REL3936) Religion in Africa (RLG5037) Ecstatic Religion (RLG5937) Ecstatic Religion (REL3936) Honors in the Major (REL4932) Religion in Africa (REL4190) Religion in Africa (RLG5195)

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Textual Interpretation (RLG5937) Ethnography of Islam in Morocco (J. Riggan) (RLG5906) Honors in the Major: African Immigrant Food Ethics 1 (A. Rojas) (REL4932) Introduction to Religion (RLG5035) Shamanism (REL3936) Dissertation (D. Bell) (REL6980) Dissertation (R. Henry) (HUM6980) Dissertation Defense (D. Bell) (REL8985) Performance in Africa (REL4190) Performance in Africa (REL6596) Textual Interpretation (REL5937) Directed Independent Study: African Politics (J. Hartsfield) (INR3931) Dissertation (D. Bell) (REL6980) Dissertation (R. Henry) (HUM6980) Ethnography: Religion, Society, and Performance (REL4190) Ethnography: Religion, Society, and Performance (REL6596) Ethnography: Religion, Society, and Performance (Z. Johnson) (REL5906) Honors in the Major: Politics in Rwanda (J. Hartsfield) (INR4937) Introduction to Religion (REL5035) Dissertation (D. Bell) (REL6980) Dissertation (R. Henry) (HUM6980) Ecstatic Religion (REL3936) (A. Guevara) (REL4905) Performance on the Margins (A. Ellis) (REL5906) Religion in Africa (REL3936) Dissertation (D. Bell) (REL6980) Dissertation (R. Henry) (HUM6980) Introduction to (ANT2410) Readings for Examination (R. Henry) (HUM6904) Words and Power in Africa (REL5195) Words and Power in Africa (REL4190) Ethnographic Field Methods in the Study of Religion and Culture (REL4190) Ethnographic Field Methods in the Study of Religion and Culture (REL6596) Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANT2410) Readings for Examination (REL6904) Directed Individual Study (ANG5906) Ecstatic Religion (REL3936) Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology (ANG5801) Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology (ANT4930) Kinship and Social Organization (ANG5426) Kinship and Social Organization (ANT4422) Religion in Africa (REL3936) Directed Independent Study (ANT4907) Grant Writing (ANG6930) Peoples and Cultures of Africa (ANG5352) Peoples and Cultures of Africa (ANT4352)

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Directed Individual Study (ANG5905) Honors Work (ANT4914) Cultural Analysis: An Introduction to Contemporary Anthropological Theory (ANG6484) African Ethnography (ANG5491)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Bell, D., graduate. (2013). Between Prayers: The Life of a West African Muslim. [Currently: law student, University of Cape Town Law School; formerly: Research Associate, Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town ; Mellon Asst. Prof. of African Indigenous Religions, Dept. of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University] Kistler, A., graduate. (2007). The House in the Market: Kinship, Status, and Memory among Q'eqchi' Market Women in San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala. [Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology, Rollins College] Henry, R., doctoral candidate. Obeah: Texts, Contexts, and Performance. [Currently: Instructor, Humanities, Miami-Dade College] Miller, J. C., doctoral candidate. Filming Ritual, Enriching Development: Mossi Funerals as Productive Investments. [Research funding from Fulbright Fellowship]

Doctoral Committee Cochair

Peters, R., doctoral candidate. Producing Film, Directing Gender: Women Directors in Bollywood. [Research funding from Fulbright-Hays Fellowship]

Doctoral Committee Member

Riggan, J., graduate. (2019). That Which They Write: Qur'anic Healing and Material Agency in Morocco. Blythe, C., graduate. (2013). Vernacular Mormonism: The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930). [I participated in his comprehensive exams] Pawn, I. C., graduate. (2012). Negotiating Identities during the Copper Age: A Bioarchaeological Study of Burial and Social Networks on the Hungarian Plain (4500--3500 BC). [Currently: Staff, Southeast Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee, FL] Englehardt, J. D., graduate. (2011). Archaeological Epigraphy and Epigraphic Archaeology: Tracing Interaction, Innovation, and the Development of the Mayan Script through Material Remains. [Currently: Assoc. Prof., El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico] Litka, S. J., graduate. (2011). Mayas, Markets, and Multilingualism: The Political Economy of Linguistic and Social Exchange in Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. [Currently: Lecturer, Deparatment of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH] Rill, B. R., graduate. (2011). Shugendo: Cultivating Spiritual Power and Health in Contemporary Japan.

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Parsons, T. A., graduate. (2011). Places, Pots, and Kurgans: Late Copper Age Patterns of Settlement and Material Culture on the Great Hungarian Plain. [Currently: Superviser and Preservation Officer, Florida Division of Historical Resources] Metzger, N., graduate. (2008). Life in the Banyan Branches: African Americans and Orisa Traditions in Philadelphia. [Currently: Asst. Prof. of Anthropology, Dept. of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University] Kowal, A., graduate. (2007). The Affinities and Disparities Within: Community and Status of the African American Slave Population at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. [Currently: Adjunct Asst. Prof., Department of Anthropology, Florida State University] Sosna, D., graduate. (2007). Social Differentiation in the Late Copper Age and the Early Bronze Age in South Moravia (Czech Republic). [Currently: Researcher, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of ; Formerly: Researcher, Dept. of Anthropology, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic]

Doctoral Committee University Representative

Rosner, E., graduate. (2019). It's Especially to Protect Her Because a Woman Is a Tree of Production: Musical Narratives of Female Genital Cutting in and the Diaspora. Kinney, D. J., graduate. (2018). Nuclear Spaces: Simulations of Nuclear Warfare in Film, by the Numbers, and on the Atomic Battlefield. [Kinney runs the website, https://www.coldwarvault.com/] Peterson, K., graduate. (2017). Consumption and Construction: Devotional Images and the Place of Empire in Postclassic Mexico, 1325-1521. [Kristi is a student of Michael Carrasco's in Art History and is studying the ritual use of space in Aztec-era Mexico. She passed her qualifying exams in February 2014] Wilcoxon, B., graduate. (2016). Performing Community: Benedictine Chant in Post-Vatican II Catholicism. [Currently: Program Coordinator, Florida State University] Lundy, H., graduate. (2016). Architecture and Placemaking at a Northern Maya City: Ek' Balam and the Question of Style. [I participated in her prospectus defense on November 14, 2013] Chouinard, M., graduate. (2015). He Leans to the Right: The Personal and Political Identities of Gay Republicans. Higgs, C., graduate. (2014). Between Experimentation and Tradition: Two Visions of American Identity. [Christopher is in the English Dept. He defended his dissertation in fall 2014. Revisions requested] Bjarnesen, J., graduate. (2013). [I played the role of his external examiner at the University of Uppsala, Sweden] Rill, L. A., graduate. (2011). An Examination of Senior Center Efficacy: Variation in Participation and Benefits. Hoesing, P. J., graduate. (2011). Kusamira Ritual Music and Social Reproduction of Wellness in Uganda. Kafumbe, D., graduate. (2011). The Kawuugulu Royal Drums: Musical Regalia, History, and Social Organization among the Baganda People of Uganda. [Currenlty: Asst. Prof. of Music, Middlebury College]

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Archuleta, A. J., graduate. (2010). A Model of Acculturative Stress: Examining Acculturation, Social Capital, and Family Role Expectations among People of Mexican Descent. [Currently: Assoc. Prof., Latin American and Latino Studies Program, Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville] Berte, Y., graduate. (2008). Postcolonialism and the Identity Crisis in Ahmadou Kourouma's Work. Diarassouba, S., graduate. (2007). Establishment of Literacy Standards for an Oral Language: The Case of Nafara Discourse Patterns, Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. [Asst. Prof. of English, University of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire] Lee, E., graduate. (2007). Portrait of Language Minority Students: Living as Outsiders. Marrero, E., doctoral candidate. [Elyse passed her comprehensive exams in the fall of 2014] Banini, J., doctoral candidate. La (re)négociation identitaire du Subsaharien francophone contemporain : la migritude, l'altérité, l'afropéanité et l'androgynie sociale dans l'écriture romanesque de Léonora Miano, de Calixthe Béyala, d'Alain Mabanckou. [French Program, Dept. of Modern Languages] Sanogo, M., doctoral candidate. From Hainteny to Negritude: Analyzing Cross-Fertilization between Malagasy and Francophone Literature. [French Program, Dept. of Modern Languages]

Master's Committee Chair

Dyehouse, R., graduate. (2017). South African State Religion Education in the Combat, Continuation, and Creation of Religious Inequalities. Miller, J., graduate. (2017). Rethinking Economics and Religion through Funerals of the Volta Basin. Weidlich, S., graduate. (2007). Narratives in the Editing Bay: The Making of 'And the Rivers Flow': Hunting and Treaty Rights in a First Nations Community. [Currently: Research & Data Analyst, Dept. of Public Defense, Director's Office, Seattle Washington; Formerly: Cultural anthropologist and environmental analyst at AECOM Technology Corporation, a private environmental consulting company in San Diego, CA] Walker, Z., student. The Human Rights Dilemmas of African Immigrant Sex Workers in Spain: How Laws Designed to Protect Make Victims More Vulnerable.

Master's Committee Member

Ann-Marie Quinn (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco), graduate. (2018). "Queer Kingdom". Thompson, J., graduate. (2015). [Jordyn passed her MA exams in International Affairs in December of 2015] Beaver, K., graduate. (2014). Towards a Regional Ismā'īlī Cosmology: An Analysis of the Kitāb al-shajara of Abū Tammām. Lopez, A., graduate. (2013). [I provided questions for and graded Alberto's master's exams in International Affairs] Johnson, Z., graduate. (2013). Regulating the Leprous Race: Religion, Public Health and Anti-Chinese Legislation in Nineteenth Century San Francisco. [Currently: Teacher,

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Tallahassee Public Schools; Formerly: Teach for America Program, Milwaukee] Tuzzeo, D., graduate. (2011). Education, Invention of Orthodoxy, and the Construction of Modern Buddhism on Dharma Drum Mountain. [Currently: Daniel is an instructor in religious studies at Stanford University] Hays, W. M., graduate. (2008). Shash, R., graduate. (2007). Cerniglia, D., graduate. (2006). Kafumbe, D., graduate. (2006). The Kabaka's Royal Musicians of Bugana-Uganda: Their Role and Significance during Ssekabaka Sir Edward Frederick Muteesa II's Reign (193901966). Hart, M., graduate. (2006). [I provided questions for and graded Michael's master's exams in International Affairs] Hoesing, P., graduate. (2006). Kumbandwa: Theory and Historiography of Shared Expressive Culture in Interlacustrine East Africa. May, D. K., graduate. (2006). [I provided questions for and graded Keith's master's exams in International Affairs] Powell, A., graduate. (2005). Adebisi, R., graduate. (2005). [I provided questions for and graded Rukayat's master's exams in International Affairs] Cristina Carter, student.

Bachelor's Committee Chair

Dennis, T., graduate. (2019). Partible Citizenship: Transnational Discourses of Belonging in Tijuana's Deported Communities. Porter, J., graduate. (2015). The Politics of Religion in the Church of Christ in Brazil (provisional). [Jack completed her fieldwork in Brazil during the summer of 2014. She collected her data in Portuguese] Rojas, A., graduate. (2014). Local Diets, Global Foods: Ivorian Immigrants' Dietary Habits in the United States. [Alfredo is now a master's student at Harvard Divinity School] Como, M., graduate. (2006). Negotiating Language and Power: Passive Responsibility as Social Action Among Bilingual Salvadoran Immigrants in Suburban Long Island. [A paper based on his thesis won the Undergraduate Paper Award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology at the 2006 meeting of the American Anthropological Association. He went on to pursue doctoral work in anthropology at the University of Virginia] Przybylowicz, S., graduate. (2005). Westerman, A., graduate. (2005). The Divine Network: Feminist Paganism in Tallahassee. Yates, L., graduate. (2005). Perceptions of Interracial Adoption among Black Middle-Class Parents. [Currently: Ms. Yates is now a lawyer] Payne, S., graduate. (2004). Democracy in the Global Justice Movement: Decision-Making on the Local and National Levels. [Currenlty: Stephen is a master's student in anthropology at the University of Memphis. For eight years until summer 2013, Stephen was Lead Organizer, SEIU Local 26, Minneapolis] Dennis, T., student. Deported Veterans, Partible Personhood, and Reciprocal Citizenship: A Military Warrant for US Residency.

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Bachelor's Committee Member

Rivera, M., graduate. (2016). Gopal, P., graduate. (2015). Rimmel, H., graduate. (2014). Sexual Abuse in Relation to Sexual Offense Severity in Juvenile Sex Offenders. [Hilary is majoring in psychology] Stanley, A., graduate. (2012). Auto-Tune in Africa: A Study of the Factors Leading to the Phenomenon. Mead, S., graduate. (2011). Public Health and the Poor: Liberation Theology, Social Justice, and Paul Farmer's Model of Public Health. Wilkes, A., graduate. (2011). The Orient and the Middle East: Cultural Constructs in an Emerging Dance Tradition. Miller, J., graduate. (2008). I Am the Periphery: Conceptual and Material Space in Salvador, Brazil's Capoeira Angola. McPhall, H., graduate. (2006). Cultural Competency and the Florida Refugee Health Program. [Currently: Senior Program Coordinator at Ounce Of Prevention Fund of Florida, Florida Dept. of Health] Powell, A. M., graduate. (2005). Choosing a Life: A Study of Women New Age Healers in Tallahassee, Florida.

Supervision of Student Research Not Related to Thesis or Dissertation

Zeisig, Carlisle; Patient, Georgina; Colangelo, L. (Sep 2019–May 2020).

Additional Teaching Not Reported Elsewhere

Hellweg, J. R. (2019). Informal Grant Writing Colloquium & Grant Editing for Students.

Hellweg, J. R. (2008–2009). Field Research Methods and Research Design. University of Kankan, Guinea.

Research and Original Creative Work

Publications

Invited Journal Articles

Hellweg, J. R. (1993). Narrating Sorcery in the Sahel. Folklore Forum, 24(1), 83-91.

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Refereed Journal Articles

Rojas, A., West, C. T., Hellweg, J. R., McDaniel, P., & Moody, A. (2019). Environmental Change and the Cashew Sector: A Case Study in Manding-Speaking Côte d'Ivoire. Mande Studies, 21, 175-195.

Hellweg, J. R. (2019). Mothers of Invention: Gender, Strategic Essentialism, and Women's Genital Power in West Africa. Journal of Africana Religions, 7(2), 299-307.

Hellweg, J. R. (2019). Songs from the Hunters' Qur'an: Music, Textuality, and Islam in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire, from the Repertoire of Dramane Coulibaly. African Studies Review, 62(1), 120-147. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/african-studies-review/article/songs-from-the-h unters-quran-dozo-music-textuality-and-islam-in-northwestern-cote-divoire-from-the-rep ertoire-of-dramane-coulibal

Hellweg, J. R. (2019). Zakaria Koné and the Transformations of Dozo Hunters in Côte d'Ivoire. Afrique contemporaine, 263/264, 37-53.

Hellweg, J. (2018). Sacrifice, Ethics, and Alinesitoué: Human Rights and Ritual Discourse in a Revolutionary Prophetic Movement. Journal of Africana Religions, 6(1), 134-142.

Hellweg, J., & Médevielle, N. (translator). (2018). Zakaria Koné et les transformations des chasseurs dozo en Côte d'Ivoire (Zakaria Koné and the Transformation of Dozo Hunters in Côte d'Ivoire). Afrique contemporaine, 3(263-264), 41-58.

Hellweg, J. (2017). Sacrifice, Ethics, and Alinesitoué: Human Rights and Ritual Discourse in a Revolutionary Prophetic Movement. Journal of Africana Religions, 6(1), 134-142.

Hellweg, J. R., Palus, N., & Koné, D. (2015). "Questa non è una milizia": i Dozo, la guerra e lo Stato in Costa d'Avorio, 1993-2014 ("This Is Not a Militia": , War, and the State in Côte d'Ivoire, 1993-2014--translated into Italian from the French in which I first wrote the manuscript). Antropologia (Italy), 2(1), 85-111.

Hellweg, J. R., & Englehardt, J. D. (2015). Raising the Dead: Altered States, Anthropology, and the Heart of Sisala Experience. Anthropology and Humanism, 40(2), 206-224.

Hellweg, J. (2015). Same-Gender Desire, Religion, and Homophobia: Challenges, Complexities, and Progress for LGBTIQ Liberation in Africa. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 83(4), 887-896.

Hellweg, J. R. (2012). La chasse à l'instablitié: les dozos, l'Etat et la tentation de l'extralégalité en Côte d'Ivoire (The Hunt for Instablity: Dozos, the State, and the Temptation of Extralegality in Côte d'Ivoire). Migrations et Société (Montreal, Canada), 26(144), 163-182.

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Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Hunters, Ritual, and Freedom: Dozo Sacrifice as a Technology of the Self in the Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15(1), 36-56.

Hellweg, J. R. (2006). Manimory and the Aesthetics of Mimesis: Forest, Islam, and the State in the Ivoirian Hunter's Association. Africa, 76(4), 461-484.

Hellweg, J. R. (2004). Encompassing the State: Sacrifice and Security in the Hunters' Movement of Côte d'Ivoire. Africa Today, 50(4), 3-28.

Invited Books

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Anthropologie, les premiers pas: Introduction à la modélisation et aux méthodes de la recherche qualitative (First Steps in Anthropology: Introduction to Qualitative Research Design and Methods). Paris: Editions L'Harmattan.

Refereed Books

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Hunting the Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). L'anthropologie sur d'autres chemins: itinéraires diverses en participation observante (Anthropology on Other Paths: Diverse Itineraries in ). L'Harmattan, Paris.

Invited Book Chapters

Hellweg, J. R., & Bell, D. (in press). Africa: Ethnography, Method, and Theory. In Oxford Handbook of the Anthropology of Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bell, D., & Hellweg, J. (in press). Conceptualizing Religious Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kevin Schilbrack (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity (30 pages). Wiley-Blackwell.

Hellweg, J. (in press). Translating the Ineffable: How Hunters Talk to the Dead in Côte d'Ivoire. In Timothy Knepper (Ed.), Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion (25 pages). Berlin: Springer.

Hellweg, J. (2016). Côte d'Ivoire and the New Homophobia: The Autochthonous Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism. In Ezra Chitando, & Adriaan van Klinken (Eds.), Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa (pp. 18). London: Routledge.

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Refereed Book Chapters

Hellweg, J., & Bell, D. (submitted). Africa. Manuscript submitted for publication, 43 pages.

Bell, D., & Hellweg, J. (in press). Conceptualizing Religious Diversioty in Sub-Saharan African. In Kevin Schilbrack (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religious Diversity (30 pages). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hellweg, J., & Miller, J. (2019). Power, Meaning & Materiality in the Anthropology of African Religions South of the Sahara: A Dialogue with Religious Studies. In Richard Grinker, & Stephen Lubkemann (Eds.), Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anthropology of Africa (pp. 119-144). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hellweg, J. (2017). Translating the Ineffable: How Hunters Consult the Dead in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. In Timothy D. Knepper and Leah E. Kalmanson (Ed.), Ineffability: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion (pp. 95-112). Berlin: Springer.

Hellweg, J. R. (2017). Tribes--Chameleons or Chimeras? Kinship, Marriage, Hierarchy, and Gender in Archaeology and Ethnography. In Ivy R. Hepp, & Joshua D. Englehardt (Eds.), These "Thin Partitions": Bridging the Growing Divide between Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology (pp. 39). Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Reading Urbanity: N'ko as a Trans-Urban Community of Practice, from Bamako to Kankan, Conakry to Dakar. In B. Obrist, E. Macamo, & V. Arlt (Eds.), Living the City in Africa: Processes of Invention and Intervention (pp. 19). Berlin: LIT Verlag.

Invited Encyclopedia Entries

Hellweg, J. R., & Mbayo, T. (2014). Côte d'Ivoire. In Gard, G. (Ed.), Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religion (p. 40). Missoula, MT: Thomas Riggs & Co.

Hellweg, J. R. (2012). Lesotho. In W. C. Roof, & M. Juergensmeyer (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Hellweg, J. R. (2012). Mauritania. In W. C. Roof, & M. Juergensmeyer (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Hellweg, J. R. (2012). Namibia. In W.C. Roof, & M. Juergensmeyer (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Global Religion. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Refereed Proceedings

Hellweg, J. R., & Kourouma, S. (in press). L'alphabétisme et la guérison au pluriel: le N'ko à Kankan, Conakry, et Bamako (Plural Literacy: N'ko in Kankan, Conakry, and Bamako).

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In Barbara Hoffman (Ed.), Mande Studies Association International Conference. Bamako, Mali: University of Bamako.

Invited Reviews

Hellweg, J. (contract). A Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country, Mike McGovern, University of Chicago Press, 2017. American Ethnologist.

Hellweg, J. (contract). The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa, Jessica Lynne Pearson, Harvard University Press, 2018. International Journal of African Historical Studies.

Hellweg, J. (in press). In the Shadow of Moses: New Jewish Movements in Africa and the Diaspora, eds. Daniel Lis et al., Tsehai, 2016. Journal of Religion in Africa, 5 pages.

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). AIDS, Sex, and Culture (Wiley and Sons, 2009), Ida Susser. American Ethnologist, 2.

Hellweg, J. R. (2010). Language and National Identity in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2008), Andrew Simpson, Ed. Journal of , 20(1), 245-247.

Hellweg, J. R. (2008). Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS and the Cultures of Blame in Africa (Left Coast Press, 2006), Andrew Rödlach. American Anthropologist, 110(4), 528-529.

Hellweg, J. R. (2005). Now I Know Only So Far: Essays in Ethnopoetics (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), Dell Hymes. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 15(2), 283-284.

Nonrefereed Reports

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Vanishing Presidents and the Perpetuation of Violence in Libya and Côte d'Ivoire. Paris: The Africa Report. Retrieved from http://www.theafricareport.com/index.php/2011102650173476/columns/vanishing-presid ents-and-the-perpetuation-of-violence-in-libya-and-côte-d'ivoire-50173476.html

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Dozos and Other Irregulars. Paris: The Africa Report. Retrieved from http://www.theafricareport.com/index.php/201109265170855/columns/dozos-and-other-i rregulars-5170855.html

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Council on Foreign Relations blog of Ambassador John Campbell. Online: blogs.cfr.org/campbell/2011. Retrieved from http://blogs.cfr.org/campbell/2011/08/12/comment-on-ivory-coast-disarmament-and-the- dozos/

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Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Exorcism, Malian Style (Contributions to my regular column for the English service of the African news site). Paris, France: Afrik.com.

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Gay Uganda and the Broken Body of Christ (Contributions to my regular column for the English service of the African news site). Paris, France: Afrik.com.

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Guinea Calling (Contributions to my regular column for the English service of the African news site). Paris, France: Afrik.com.

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Sacrifice, University Style (Contributions to my regular column for the English service of the African news site). Paris, France: Afrik.com.

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Structuralism au village: An Obituary for Claude Lévi-Strauss (Contributions to my regular column for the English service of the African news site). Paris, France: Afrik.com.

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Tabaski Redux. Paris, France: Afrik.com. Retrieved from http://www.afrik-news.com/article16579.html

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Tabaski, Thanksgiving: Back to Back (Contributions to my regular column for the English service of the African news site). Paris, France: Afrik.com. Retrieved from http://www.afrik-news.com/article16535.html

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). The N'ko Alphabet: Literacy by and for West Africans (Contributions to my regular column for the English service of the African news site). Paris, France: Afrik.com.

Nonrefereed Newsletter Articles

Hellweg, J. R. (1997, May). Like the Leaves of the Trees: Hunters Stalk Security in Urban Côte d'Ivoire. Anthropology Newsletter, 38(5), 61-62.

Hellweg, J. R. (1994, September). Premier festival Lybby (The first Lybby Festival) [dance festival review]. Hit Parade: La Star des Magazines, 1.

Hellweg, J. R. (1994, January). La Fédération Nationale du Théâtre et la Fédération du Théâtre Populaire: le premier accroc (The National Theater Federation and the Federation for Popular Theater of Côte d'Ivoire: The First Snag). Hit Parade: La Star des Magazines, 1.

Hellweg, J. R. (1993, December). La Fédération Nationale du Théâtre: les trois coups (The National Theater Federation's Three Hits). Top Visages, 1.

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Presentations

Invited Papers at Conferences

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2019, March). A Visual Introduction to the [Hog Farm] Crisis: Excerpts from Film Documentaries". Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion annual conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. (Regional)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2019, March). Lessons from AIDS and Ebola in the Atlantic World. Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. (Regional)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2019, March). Mapping Myths of Terror: Africom, Instability, and Cosmography in West Africa. Paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion annual conference, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. (Regional)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2014, December). Counting Your Blessings: The Rosary and Ritual Epistemology in the Anthropology of Religion. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2014, November). The Range of Healing: Approaches to Mental Health in Nigeria. Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Annual Meetings, American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2013, November). Viewing Scenes of Sovereignty. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2011, June). Ceci n'est pas une milice: les dozos, le mouvement Benkadi, et l'état en Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at Colloque sur l'analyse comparée des phénomènes miliciens, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales, Sciences Po (formerly Institut d'études politiques), Paris, France. (International)

Invited Papers at Symposia

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2019, November). Devenir citoyens : les Ivoiriens altersexuels, les droits humains et l'opportunisme de la santé publique. In Rosa de Jorio (Chair), Les droits humains en Afrique francophone : principes universels, réalités locales. Symposium conducted at the meeting of College of Arts & Sciences, University of North Florida, Jacksonville. (International)

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Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2019, November). Not a 'Gay' Marriage: Queer Citizenship, Homophobia, and Civil War in Côte d'Ivoire. In Joseph Hellweg (Chair), Human Rights in West Africa: Global Principles, Local Realities. Symposium conducted at the meeting of FSU Dept. of Religion, College of Communication, Center for Global Engagement, Center for Global Engagement. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2018, November). Global Indigeneity and Local Islam in the Sahel. In Alisa LaGamma (Chair), On the Shore of the Sahel: Art and Empires of Western Sudan. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Clark, Williamstown, MS. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2015, October). "I Put My Hand in the Dozos' Qur'an": Songs, Literacy, Dance, and Orality in the Hunt in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. In Michael Bollig (Chair), Moving Targets: A Workshop/Conference on Hunting in Contemporary Africa. Symposium conducted at the meeting of University of Köln, Germany, Köln, Germany. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2014, May). Divining Destinies: Ritual, Recursion, and Politics in the Dozo Songs of Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. In Richard Werbner (Chair), Satterthwaite Colloquium. Symposium conducted at the meeting of , Grasmere, Lake District, UK. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2013, September). Myth and Bluff: The State and Ritualized Violence in Côte d'Ivoire. In Richard Kaminski, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State (Chair), Executive Analytic Exchange on Côte d'Ivoire. Symposium conducted at the meeting of United States State Department, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C. (International)

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2019, November). Becoming Citizens: Queer Ivoirians, Human Rights, and the Opportunism of Public Health and Politics. Paper presented at Annual meeting, African Studies Association, Boston. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2019, November). In the Hunter's Footsteps: Cherif Keita as Teacher, Mentor, and Inspiration. Paper presented at Annual meeting, African Studies Association, Boston. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2018, November). Gender, Strategic Essentialism, and Power In West African Women's Activism. Paper presented at the meeting of American Academy of Religion, Denver. (International)

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Hellweg, J. (presented 2018, November). Power and Play in Post-War Côte d'ivoire: Dozo Mimesis, State Politics, and a Genealogy of Rebellion and Reconstruction. Paper presented at the meeting of African Studies Association, Atlanta. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2018, April). Letters, Leaves & Elixirs: N'ko Healers and Collaborative Medical Pluralism in Guinea and Mali. Paper presented at First Annual Symposium on Religion & Public Health, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. (National)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2017, October). "I Put My Hand in the Hunters' Qur'an": Song, Islam, and Hunting In Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at Society for , Society for Ethnomusicology, Denver, Colorado. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2017, August). L'image brille : engendrer l'avenir dans la divination bɛrɛla ("The Image Shines: Engendering the Future through Pebble Divination"). Paper presented at MANSA 10th International Triennial Conference, Mande Studies Association, Grand-Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2016, December). Singing Scripture: Dozo Textuality, Islam, and the State in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at Imagining Africa at the Center, African Studies Association. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2016, November). Ethnography by Accident: "Fieldwork as Initiation and as Therapy" among Dozo Hunters in Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at Evidence, Accident, Discovery, American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2016, November). Sacrifice, Ethics, and Alinesitoué: Roundtable Comments on Baum's 'West Africa's Women of God'. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2015, November). Emergence and Submersion: The Ideological Contradictions of the State in Post-Conflict Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at The Annual Meeting, African Studies Association, San Diego. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2015, November). Hunting Values in an African State: Religion, Dozo Hunters, and Post-Conflict Realities in Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2015, April). Death as Moral Discourse: Dance, Song Sacrifice, and Text in the Making of Dozo Funerals. Paper presented at Religion, Ritual, and Moraliy, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, San Diego, CA. (International)

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Hellweg, J. (presented 2014, December). The Gender in the Song: Dozo Hunters' Song Performances as Drag in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC. (International)

Hellweg, J. (presented 2014, November). Côte d'Ivoire and the New Homophobia, Or The Autocthonous Ethic and the Spirit of Neoliberalism. Paper presented at American Academy of Religion Annual Meetings, American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2013, November). Doubling State and Society: Zakaria Koné as Dozo Hunter and Political Exemplar in Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at African Studies Association Annual Meeting, African Studies Association, Baltimore. (International)

Englehardt, J. D., & Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2013, November). Raising the Dead: Altered States, Anthropology, and the Heart of Sisala Experience. Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2012, December). Precarious Situations in Precarious States: Sexuality, AIDS, Climate, and the Occult in Twenty-First Century Africa: Comments on the Papers. Paper presented at the annual meeting, Amerian Academy of Religion, Chicago, IL. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2012, November). Civil Society as Political Strategy: Re-Defining Dozo Hunters in Post-War Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2012, November). Time, Narrative, and Performance in Dozo Funerals: The Art of Hunting in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, African Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R., & Kourouma, S. (presented 2011, July). L'alphabétisme au pluriel, la guérison au pluriel: des guérisseurs N'ko en tant que négociants culturels et entrepreneurs urbains à Kankan et à Bamako. Paper presented at the Eighth International Conference, Mande Studies Association, Bamako, Mali. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2011, April). The Harp Is the Hunters' Qur'an: Deconstruction, Hermeneutics, and Communicative Action in the Songs of Dramane Coulibaly. Paper presented at The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion conference, Department of Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2011, April). The Matter of Healing: Islam, Literacy, and Materiality in the N'ko Movement of Mali and Guinea. Paper presented at the biannual meeting, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Santa Fe, New Mexico. (International)

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Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2011). Advertising Diversity: The Urban Signs of N'ko Entrepreneurs in West Africa. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2011). Words as Icons: Lived Religion, Ideology, and Visual Culture in the N'ko Alphabet and Movement of West Africa. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Academy of Religion, San Francisco, CA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2010, October). Syncretism as a Cultural System: Conflict, Ritual, and Hunting in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2007, December). Talk about Belmont: The Ethics of HIV Sentinel Surveillance through Conversations about AIDS in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2007, October). Dancing the Hunt: The Heroic Aesthetics of Dozo Song and Social Activism in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, Society for Ethnomusicology, Columbus, Ohio. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2007, October). The United States of Côte d'Ivoire: Houphouët-Boigny's Legacy in the Transformation of the Ivoirian State. Paper presented at the annual meeting, African Studies Association, New York, New York. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2006, November). Assistance to Non-Persons in Danger: Turning Women into HIV Statistics in Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Jose, New Mexico. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2005, March). In Silence and Secrecy: Alternative AIDS Epidemiologies and the Ethics of HIV Sentinel Surveillance in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Paper presented at the African Health and Illness Conference, Department of African Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2004, November). Manimory and the Aesthetics of Encompassment: Forest, Islam, and State in the Ivoirian Hunters' Association. Paper presented at the annual meeting, African Studies Association, New Orleans, LA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2004, April). The Hunter is Dead, Long Live the Hunter: Aspects of Funerary Sacrifice in the Hunters' Movement of Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Ethnological Society, Atlanta, GA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2003, November). Performing the Ethnography of AIDS: Village Theater as Participatory Research in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. (International)

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Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2003, October). Mande Models for Participatory Health Research: The Performance Ethnography of HIV/AIDS in Odienné, Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, African Studies Association, Boston, MA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2002, December). Sacrificing for Security: Hunters' Ritual in the Benkadi Movement of Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, African Studies Association, Washington, D.C. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2002, November). To Dance, Hunt, and Protect: The Aesthetics of Hunters' Civic Activism in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 1999, November). Hunters' Ethics, Jealousy, and Rivalry in Ivoirian Civil Society. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 1999, November). Initiation, Performance, and Liminal Masculinity in the Mande Hunters' Association of Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Paper presented at the annual meeting, African Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 1998, December). Once a Hunter, Always a Hunter: An Evangelical in the Hunters' Society of Odienné. Paper presented at the annual meeting, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 1996, April). The Hunters' Association's Struggle Against Desertification. Paper presented at Conference on Desertification in West Africa, Afrique Environnemental, Kaniasso, Côte d'Ivoire. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 1993, August). The Actors Prepare: The Personal as Political in the Drama of the Bin-Kadi Theater. Paper presented at the annual meeting, Association for Theater in Higher Education, Philadelphia, PA. (International)

Refereed Papers at Symposia

Hellweg, J. (presented 2014, April). Doubling State and Society: Koné Zakaria as Dozo Hunter and Political Examplar in Post-War Côte d'Ivoire. In Dianna Bell and Moses Ochonu (Chair), Religion and National Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Department of Religions Studies, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2010, October). Reading Urbanity: N'ko as a Trans-Urban Community of Practice, from Bamako to Kankan, Conakry to Dakar. In AEGIS Thematic Conference. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. (International)

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Hellweg, J. R. (presented 2010, January). N'ko, Healing, and Capitalism in Conakry, Kankan, and Bamako: Healer Entrepreneurs in African Urban Health. In International Workshop, Urban Health in Sub-Saharan Africa. Symposium conducted at the meeting of Point Sud, Bamako, Mali. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (presented 1993, April). Identity On and Offstage among the Bin-Kadi Theater. In International Symposium on African Theater and Film. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Department of English, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (International)

Nonrefereed Presentations at Conferences

Hellweg, J. (presented 2018, November). Commentator, Moderator & Organizer. Presentation at Security from Below: Grassroots Democracy and Change in West Africa, Broad Lectureship in International Affairs, Globe Auditorium, Florida State University. (International)

Invited Workshops

Hellweg, J. (2016, August). Comment rédiger une proposition de communication et de panel (How to Write a Paper or Panel Proposal). Workshop delivered at Laboratoire de Sociologie Economique et d'Anthropologie aux Appartenances Symboliques, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (2009, July). Social Science Proposal Writing and Field Research Methods. Workshop delivered at the United States Embassy, Conakry, Guinea, International Alert (London-based non-governmental office). (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (2009, May). Social Science Proposal Writing and Field Research Methods. Workshop delivered at the University of Kankan, Guinea. (International)

Invited Lectures and Readings of Original Work

Hellweg, J. (2018, April). Humanities outside the Ivory Tower: Religious Studies and Public Health (Whichard Distinguished Professorship Lecture). Delivered at East Carolina University, Faulkner Gallery, Joyner Library. (Local)

Hellweg, J. (2018, March). Global Health: Progress and Challenges. Delivered at Great Decisions Program, East Carolina University. (National)

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Hellweg, J. (2017, October). Religion beyond the "Religions": Religious Studies in the 21st Century—by Way of West Africa. Delivered at East Carolina University, Joyner Library. (Local)

Hellweg, J. (2017, February). Image, Word, and Divination: Pebble Augury, Representation, and Literacy in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at African Studies Center, Indiana University. (National)

Hellweg, J. (2017, February). Singing the Hunters' Qur'an: Dozo Music, Literacy, and Apostasy in the Songs of Dramane Coulibaly. Delivered at Islamic Studies Program, Indiana University. (National)

Hellweg, J. (2017, January). Islam Elsewhere: Reflections on West African Hunters, the Dilemmas of Teaching, and the Closing of the American Mind. Delivered at Faculty Luncheon Series, Florida State University. (Local)

Hellweg, J. (2016, September). Scripture and Orature in Songs for Muslim Hunters: Reconciling Performance and Scholarship in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Delivered at Society for Ethnomusicology, Florida State University. (National)

Hellweg, J. (2016, August). L'anthropologie américaine: vue historique sur la théorie et la méthodologie de l'étude de la culture (American Anthropology: A Historical View of Theory and Method in the Study of Culture). Delivered at Laboratoire de Sociologie Economique et d'Anthropologie aux Appartenances Symboliques, Institut pour la Bonne Gouvernance, le Développement et la Prospective, Abidjan, Côte d'Iv. (International)

Hellweg, J. (2016, March). From Scrap Metal to Rock Inscriptions: Words, Healing, and Decolonization in Francophone, Muslim West Africa". Delivered at Center for African Studies, University of Florida. (International)

Hellweg, J. (2015, January). Dancing Gender in Islam: How Orality Becomes Scripture in the Hunting Songs of Dramane Coulibaly. Delivered at Program in African Studies & Program in Performance Studies, Texas A & M University. (National)

Hellweg, J. (2015, January). Lire et guérir au-delà de l'alphabet: Les chansons des chasseurs, l'alphabétisation N'ko, et la matérialité de la parole en Afrique de l'Ouest. Delivered at School of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa. (International)

Hellweg, J. (2014, March). Translating the Ineffable: How Hunters Talk with the Dead in Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at Comparison Project, Drake University, Cowles Library Reading Room. (International)

Hellweg, J. (2014, February). The Harp Is the Hunter's Qur'an: Text, Performance, and Narrative in Dozo Hunting Songs of Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at Department of Music, Middlebury College, Mahaney Center for the Arts. (National)

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Hellweg, J. R. (2012, October). Dozo Hunters and Islam in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at Islam in Africa Working Group, Center for African Studies, University of Florida. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (2011, November). "Words, Power, and Fieldwork in West Africa: Hunting, Praise-Songs, and Politics. Delivered at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Carrie Meek-James N. Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives, Research Center & Museum. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2011, July). L'observation participante comme méthode de recherche: l'exemple de mon apprentissage dozo (Les soixante-douze heures du livre). Delivered at at the Université M'Bémba Touré, Kankan, Guinea. (International)

Hellweg, J. R. (2010, October). The N'ko Movement as Alternative Schooling. Delivered at the College of Education, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2008, February). Songs of Freedom: Hermeneutics and Communicative Action as Power in Ivorian Hunting, Security, and Public Health. Delivered at the University of Virginia Department of Anthropology, Charlottesville, VA. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2005, March). In Silence and Secrecy: Alternative AIDS Epidemiologies in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa and the Ethics of HIV Sentinel Surveillance. Delivered at The Florida State University Center for Demography and Population Health, Tallahassee, FL. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2004, March). In Silence and Secrecy: The Ethics of HIV Sentinel Surveillance in Odienné, Côte d'Ivoire (Baraza Series Lecture). Delivered at the University of Florida Center for African Studies, Gainesville, FL. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2003, April). Speaking of Health and Poverty: Ethnography, Performance, and Alternative Epidemiologies of HIV/AIDS in Odienné, Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2002, October). Morally Speaking: The Ethics and Politics of HIV Prevention in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Delivered at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2002, May). Notes from the Field: The Current State of HIV/AIDS Education in Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, CT. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2002, February). Benkadi: Crime, Public Health, and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Hunters' Movement of Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN. (State)

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Hellweg, J. R. (2002, February). Benkadi: Crime, Public Health, and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Hunters' Movement of Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at The Institute for Community Research, Hartford, CT. (Local)

Hellweg, J. R. (2002, February). Culturing HIV in Côte d'Ivoire: The Ethnography of Illness and Collaboration in Networks of Healers, Women, and Men. Delivered at Yale University Anthropology Department, New Haven, CT. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2001, April). Sacrificing for Security: The Mande Hunters' Movement in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at the Carter Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2000, October). From Hunting to Policing: The Transformation of the Mande Hunters' Associations of Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at the Carter Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2000, October). Initiation, Performance, and Liminal Masculinity in the Mande Hunters' Association of Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Delivered at the Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2000, July). Cultures in Conflict? Islam, Christianity and Traditional Religions in Africa. Delivered at the Global Studies Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (2000, April). Praise Singing as Cultural Practice among Jula Hunters of Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at the Carter Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (1999, September). An Overview of the Culture and Practice of the Mande Hunters' Movement of Côte d'Ivoire. Delivered at the Carter Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (1999, April). Negotiating Culture as a Hunter's Apprentice in Côte d'Ivoire, Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching. Delivered at Carleton College, Northfield, MN. (State)

Hellweg, J. R. (1998, October). The Ethics of Virtue and the Value of Change in the Hunters' Society of Ivory Coast. Delivered at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. (State)

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Original Creative Works

Image Published in a Journal, Magazine, or Newsletter

Hellweg, J. R. (1998, July). The People Trust in Them: The Ritual Hunters of West Africa [research photos of hunters from Côte d'Ivoire]. The World and I, 13(7), 212-219.

Digital Projects

Invited Digital Projects

Hellweg, J. R. (Guest Editor). (2012, July). Côte d'Ivoire Is Cooling Down? Reflections a Year after the Battle for Abidjan [Edited Collection of Short Essays by Leading Scholars Accompanied by Digital Images]. Cultural Anthropology (Journal for the Society for Cultural Anthropology). Retrieved from http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/600

Hellweg, J. R. (Author). (2012, July). In Search of Lost Legality: Justice, Constitutionality, and the Rome Statute in Côte d'Ivoire [Conclusion to Edited Collection of Online Essays]. Cultural Anthr.

Hellweg, J. R. (Author). (2012, July). The Path to Peace [Introduction to Edited Collection of Online Essays]. Cultural Anthropology. Retrieved from http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/600

Contracts and Grants

Contracts and Grants Funded

Hellweg, J. R. (Nov 2019–Nov 2019). Coordinate & Affiliate Organizations Small Grant. Funded by African Studies Association. Total award $500.

Hellweg, J. R. (May 2004–Aug 2004). First Year Assistant Professor Award. Funded by Council on Research and Creativity, The Florida State University. Total award $13,000.

Hellweg, J. R. (2002–2004). Development Grant: Pilot HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in Côte d'Ivoire. Funded by Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University. Total award $30,000.

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Resource Grant

Hellweg, J. R. (2019, November). A grant of $1,000.00. Human Rights in West Africa: Global Principles, Local Realities. Sponsored by Department of Religion, Florida State University.

Hellweg, J. R. (2019, November). A grant of $200.00. Human Rights in West Africa: Global Principles, Local Realities. Sponsored by College of Communication.

Hellweg, J. R. (2019, November). A grant of Grant from Stephen McDowell, Office of the Provost. Human Rights in West Africa: Global Principles, Local Realities. Sponsored by College of Communication, Florida State University.

Contracts and Grants Pending

Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Practical Religion: Hunting, Islam, and the Poetics of Action in the Songs of Dramane Coulibaly. Submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Bell, D., & Hellweg, J. R. (2011). Doctoral Dissertation Research: Religious Value Among Kin in Mali, West Africa. Submitted to the National Science Foundation.

Additional Research or Original Creative Work Not Reported Elsewhere

Hellweg, J. R. (2009). Guinea Offers Lessons in Politics and Pedagogy. Tallahassee Democrat (editorial section).

Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Committee Member, Ad Hoc Koch Report Recommendation Implementation Committee (2018–present).

Faculty Advisor, Students for Justice in Palestine (2015–present).

Member, FSU Fulbright Committee (2012–present).

Senate Alternate (for Jamil Drake), Faculty Senate (2018).

Faculty Advisor, FSU Progress Coalition (2016–2018).

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Member, Interdisciplinary Research Working Group (2017).

Senator, FSU Faculty Senate (2015–2017).

Senator, Faculty Senate (2014–2017).

Faculty Advisor, Pagan Student Association (2010–2016).

Secretary, Executive Committee, United Faculty of Florida-The Florida State University (2010–2014).

Senator, FSU Faculty Senate (2006–2008).

FSU Department Service

Faculty Advisor, Semi-Annual Religion Undergraduate Research Symposium (2018–present).

Faculty Advisor, Students Organized for Religious and Cultural Exploration (Religion Club) (2018–present).

Liaison, Honors in the Major Program (2015–present).

Advisor, Semi-Annual Undergraduate Student Religion Symposium (2013–present).

Member, Religion Undergraduate Affairs Committee (2010–present).

Faculty Advisor, Students Organized for Religious and Cultural Diversity (Religion Club) (2010–present).

Member, Ad Hoc By-Laws Committee (2018–2019).

Advisor, Religion Undergraduates (2010–2017).

Reporter, Annual Religion Department SACS Review (2013–2015).

Faculty Advisor, Annual Religion Graduate Student Symposium (2011–2012).

Member, Technology Committee (Religion) (2010–2012).

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (Anthropology) (2007–2008).

Member, Curriculum Committee (Anthropology) (2004–2008).

Chair, Eisele Fellowship Committee (Anthropology) (2004–2008).

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Chair, Undergraduate Affairs Committee (Anthropology) (2004–2008).

The Profession

Editor for Refereed Journals

Offer to Become Journal Editor, Journal of Religion in Africa (2020–present).

Book Review Editor, Journal of Religion in Africa (2017–present).

Contributing Volume Editor (vol. 21), Mande Studies (2019).

Guest Editing for Refereed Journals

Hellweg, J. R. (Ed.). (2004). Mande Hunters, Civil Society and the State [Special Issue]. Africa Today, 50(4).

Series Editor for Books

Religion in Transforming Africa Series (2016–present).

Editorial Board Membership(s)

Religion Compass (2008–present).

Guest Reviewer for Refereed Journals

Journal of Religion in Africa (2019).

American Journal of Public Health (2018).

Journal of Religious Ethics (2018).

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (2018).

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale (Jan 2014–Feb 2016).

Journal of Religion in African (2014–16).

Anthropological Quarterly (2013).

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Visual Anthropology Review (2012).

Journal of Anthropology and Humanism (2011).

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2011).

American Ethnologist (2005–10).

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (2009).

Anthropological Theory (2005).

African Studies Review (2004).

Journal of Anthropology and Humanism (2004).

Reviewer for Textbooks

Hunting Game: Politics in the Central African Interior (2019).

Diverse Unfreedoms: The Afterlives and Transformations of Post-Transatlantic Bondages (2018).

The Revolution's Echos: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea (2018).

An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa (2016).

Out of War: Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone (2016).

Democracy as Death: The Moral Order of Anti-Liberal Politics in South Africa (2014).

Chair of a Symposium

Hellweg, J. R. (Chair). (2020, March). Southeastern Regional Meeting of the AAR and SBL (regional conference of some 250 people). Symposium conducted at the meeting of Southeastern Regional Meeting of the AAR and SBL, Tallahassee, FL.

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

French Embassy, Washington, D.C (2004).

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Service to Professional Associations

President, Mande Studies Association (2017–2020).

President-Elect, Mande Studies Association (2014–2017).

Co-Chair, Steering Committee, African Religions Section, American Academy of Religion (2013–2015).

Elected Executive Board Member, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, American Anthropological Association (2011–2014).

Elected Advisory Board Member, Mande Studies Association, African Studies Association (2011–2013).

Panel Chair, Public Arts/Art Public, American Anthropological Association (2011).

Panel Organizer, Just Between Us? Ritual Syncretism across Religion, Society, and Politics in Contemporary Africa, American Academy of Religion (2010).

Panel Co-Organizer, Subjects of Compliance: The Ethics of Personhood in Clinical Practice and Research, American Anthropological Association (2007).

Panel Chair and Co-Organizer, A State Unbecoming: Citizenship, Autochthony, and the undoing of Côte d'Ivoire, African Studies Association (2007).

Panel Co-Organizer, Word, Sound, and Power among African Hunters and Kings, Society for Ethnomusicology (2007).

Panel Chair and Co-Organizer, The Perils of Personhood: Paradoxes of Local Identity in Markets, Medicine, Tourism, and Trance, American Anthropological Association (2006).

Panel Chair, International Symposium on Textual Ownership in Francophone African Writing, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, The Florida State University (2004).

Panel Chair, 20th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, The Florida State University (2004).

Panel Organizer, Mande Hunters, Nation-States, and Civil Society in Contemporary West Africa, African Studies Association (2002).

Panel Co-Organizer, Back to Aesthetics: Critical Anthropological Perspectives on Beauty, Power and Truth, American Anthropological Association (2002).

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Moderator and French Interpreter, Africans United Against AIDS Globally Conference, Africans United Against AIDS Globally (2001).

Panel Co-Organizer, Christianity, Populations, and Globalization, American Anthropological Association (1998).

Service to Other Universities

Third-Year Promotion Reviewer, Timothy Landry, Trinity College, Hartford, CT (2018).

Tenure Reviewer, Lorenzo Ferrarini, Granada Centre for , University of Manchester (UK) (2017).

Tenure Reviewer, Karen Morris, Art Institute of Chicago (2013).

Some Thoughts on Language Training for Peace Corps Volunteers in Odienné, Côte d'Ivoire, World Affairs Council, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (1998).

The Community

Interview, Dozos -- "Savvy" Political Actors, IRIN News Service (2011).

Book quoted in news article, Dozo as Protector, Dozo as Assailant, IRIN News Service (Humanitarian News and Analysis of the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2011).

Interview, Comments about research on dozos, Diversity TV, Kankan, Guinea (2011).

Interview, Comments about book, Anthropologie, les premier pas (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011), Horizons FM Radio, Kankan, Guinea (2011).

Interview, Comments about book, Anthropologie, les premier pas (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011), Milo FM Radio, Kankan, Guinea, Africa (2011).

Open Letter Signatory, Signatory to open letter denouncing the regime of former president Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire while he was still president. The letter was signed by fifty leading African, European, and U.S. Africanist scholars and first published in the French newspaper, Le Monde, then in the U.S. journal, Foreign Policy, the French news magazine, Jeune Afrique, and on the French blog, Mediapart, Signatures of various Africanist scholars worldwide (2011).

Author, Editorial feature article, Tallahassee Democrat (editorial section) (2009).

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Interview, Comments about the massacre of opposition demonstrators in Conakry, Guinea, by Omneya Ayad, IslamOnline.net Radio (2009).

Presenter, Moral Conflicts and Social Change: The State Versus the Jula Hunters' Association in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire, Albemarle County Rotary Club, Virginia (2000).

Presenter, Dancing, Singing, and Hunting in Odienné, Côte d'Ivoire (for children), Village of Arts & Humanities (1999).

Presenter, Stewardship versus Collecting (an introduction to an exhibit of Jula hunters' objects), St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO (1998).

Presenter, Ethical Values among Hunters of the Ivory Coast, St. Louis Ethical Society, St. Louis, MO (1998).

Presenter, Two Approaches to an Ethical Society in Ivory Coast: The Rotary Club of Ivory Coast and the Hunters' Association, Mid-St. Louis County Rotary Club, St. Louis, MO (1998).

Interview, "Je suis un petit dozo," Ivoir'Soir No. 2302 (1996).

Consultation

Fulbright Foundation. Resource person for orientation for Fulbright recipients departing for Africa (2011–present).

Human Rights First. Expert witness in asylum cases for political refugees from, and women facing the prospect of female genital cutting in, Côte d'Ivoire (2000–present).

Fulbright Foundation. Resource person for orientation for Fulbright recipients departing for Guinea and Mali (2010–2011).

International Resource Committee. French-English interpreter (2000–2001).

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