Eric James Montgomery
ORCID iD https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/af3939
Wayne State University Center for Peace and Conflict Studies
United States

Eric J. Montgomery is a Cultural Anthropologist and a faculty member in the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University and in anthropology at Central Michigan University. He has created two films: Chasing the Spirit (2012) and African Herbsmen (2013). He is co-author of the book “Ethnography of a Vodu Shrine in Southern Togo” (BRILL, 2017). He is editor and contributor to two forthcoming books “Shackled Sentiments: Memory and Slavery in the African Diaspora” (Rowman and Littlefield) and “Global Vodu(n) and Spirit Service (Indiana University Press). Publications can be found in The Shaman, The Applied Anthropologist, Journal of Religion and Society, Journal of Africana Religions, Visual Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and Journal of Ritual Studies.