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About Amisah Bakuri
I am an assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands. I am a researcher with over ten years of experience in the field of migration, well-being, religion, sexuality and gender, the health of minority groups, Black and African diaspora. I have been involved in several roles as a researcher, lecturer, research consultant, Postdoctoral fellow, thesis supervisor and academic tutor at the University of Amsterdam, African Studies Center/Leiden University, Utrecht University, KNUST, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Toronto.
I love reading, traveling and talking to people
NBN Episodes hosted by Amisah:
June 16, 2026
Doctoral Supervision Across Boundaries
What does doctoral supervision actually look like in contemporary academia? In this NBN episode, Fredrik Saxegaard discusses the open-access book Doc…
June 15, 2026
Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman
In this episode of the New Books Network, we explore Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press, 2026), with anthropologist Dr…
June 14, 2026
Can Robots Love God and Be Saved?
One of the things that stood out in my conversation with John Longhurst about his book Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith…
June 10, 2026
Making Do
Modern environmentalism often frames conservation as moral, humans damage nature, and conservation protects it. But Mardi Reardon-Smith’s Making Do: C…
June 8, 2026
From the Margins
In this episode of the New Books Network, I spoke with Dr Olga Burlyuk and Dr Ladan Rahbari about their new edited volume, From the Margins: Migrant A…
May 21, 2026
From Erasmus to Maius
Codex Vaticanus is often regarded as a pillar of New Testament scholarship, ancient, authoritative, and decisive. In From Erasmus to Maius: The Histor…
May 6, 2026
Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission
In my conversation with Rev. Dr Carmen Lansdowne about her book Wearing a Broken Indigene Heart on the Sleeve of Christian Mission (CMU Press, 2025), …
April 25, 2026
An Anthropology of Wandering
In a culture saturated by speed, safety protocols, and mediated fear, what might we rediscover by walking or hiking slowly into the unknown? In this …
April 22, 2026
Where Saints Show Respect
Where Saints Show Respect: Mafia, Modernity, and Rituals of Power is an anthropological exploration of how authority is produced not only through viol…
April 8, 2026
The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River
In his new book, The Castle Slaves of the Gambia River: A Creole Community in the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World (Brill, 2026) historian Dr. Michae…
April 5, 2026
Africa Unbound
I had a substantive conversation with Dr. Stephen Onyango Ouma, author of Africa Unbound: Decolonial Pathways to Sovereignty and Liberation (Brill, 20…