Adeline Masquelier
Adeline Marie Masquelier (born 1960) is a Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Biography. She received her baccalaureate in biology and physics (with honors) at Centre St. Marc, in Lyon, France (1978), her B.A. in Zoology (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1980), and M.A. in Anthropology (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1984). She also received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993 studying under the prominent Africanist and Anthropologist Jean Comaroff, and has done her field work among the people of rural Niger in the Hausa town of Dogondoutchi. Her  research focuses have included spirit possession, reformist Islam, Bori religious practices, twinship, witchcraft, the pathology of consumption, medical anthropology, and gender. Currently she is the executive editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa (since January 2008) and is researching the Izala Islamic reformist movement in Niger, examining issues including bridewealth, worship, and dress.