Robert M. Baum

Robert M. Baum chairs the Department of African and African American Studies and is a professor in that department and the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. He is the author of two other books, the award-winning Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religon and Society in Precolonial Senegambia and West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoue and the Diola Prophetic Tradition. He served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa for six years.