BA & MA (McGill)
PhD, ABD (Toronto)
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Jonathan Roberts is from Lantzville, British Columbia and he arrived at the Mount in 2008. He holds a BA and an MA from McGill University and is completing a PhD at the University of Toronto.
Jonathan specializes in the history of medicine and religion in West Africa, with a particular focus on the history of healing in West Africa. He is currently investigating the way that love, sex and fertility medicines have been fetishized and commodified in Ghana and Togo.
At the Mount, Jonathan teaches courses in African and World history. He has recently taught the following courses: World History, Cultural Encounters in the Modern World, the Early African Past, Modern Africa, and Religions in African History
Select Publications
“Korle and the mosquito: Histories and memories of the antimalaria campaign, Accra, 1942-5,” Journal of African History, 51, no. 3 (2010).
“Ritual interment as a challenge to funerary conventions in Accra, Ghana: the case of agbalegba.” In Funerals in Africa: explorations of a social phenomenon, edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.
“Michael Power and Guinness masculinity in Africa.” In Beer in Africa, edited by Professor Steven Van Wolputte, Program Director Social & Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Anthropological Research on Africa (IARA), K.U. Leuven, Belgium, 2010.