Anspach Hall 127
(989)774-7335

email: cochr1ll@cmich.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, August 2007
• A.M., Washington University in St. Louis, May 2004
• B. S., James Madison University, May 1998

Areas of Teaching Expertise

• Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
• African Cultures
• Anthropology of Religion
• Anthropology and Art

Research Interests

• Ongoing research in Senegal concerning religious beliefs, visual arts, and environmental and economic concerns. Within those broad ideas, exploration of everday practices of Sufism in artisanal commnities, and faith-based motivations for community-scale economic development work. 

Publications

• 2012. Religious motivations for local economic development in Senegal. Africa Today. 58(4).
• 2011. Exchange Without Brokers: Weaver-Client Relationships in Senegal. Textile Economies: Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational, ed. Walter E. Little and Patricia A. McAnany, 3-20.
• 2011. The Growth of Artistic Nationalism in Senegal. Nations and Nationalism: Journal of the Association of Ethnicity and Nationalism. 17(2): 377-395.
• 2009. Senegalese Weavers’ Ethnic Identities, in Discourse and in Craft. African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society. 7(1): 3-15.
• 2009. Religious Expression in Senegalese Weavers’ Work. Material Religion: The Journal of Art, Objects, and Belief 5(2-): 205-233.