Publications

Books

**Sophia Robot: Post Human Being**
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**Routledge / 378 Pages / 2024**

Screen Shot 2017-07-03 at 10.48.15 AM.png — **Performing Africa: Remixing Tradition, Theatre and Culture**
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**Peter Lang / 238 Pages / 2007**

**Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance**
**Mellen Press / 329 Pages / 2003**

Articles, Chapters, & Plays

The Anthropocene has incited apprehension, instability, and reevaluation. It has affected every aspect of human endeavor: the social, cultural, economic, political, and personal. It has re-drawn boundaries and definitions of ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, religious belief, time, space, fiction, and reality. We are acutely aware of the biological-technological-geological co-evolution that is swirling around us. We pay closer, better attention to the interdependence of human and nonhuman landscapes and beings, aware and attuned to multi-species entanglements and complexity that pulsates around us. We are awake and anxious about the fragility of our moment, which sits on a precipice poised to slip into a cascade of unimaginable ruination.

— from Africa, Agency and the Anthropocene

**Deus Ex Machina: Sophia, Robot Deity**. Ecumenica Journal, Spring 2024

**Hello, World! AI as Emergent and Transcendent Life** Religions, Spring 2025

**Form Fatigue**, Athenaeum Review. Spring 2023

**Sophia Robot: an emergent ethnography.** Fall 2021

**Zhuiniu Water Buffalo Ritual of the Miao: Cultural Narrative Performed.** Spring 2022

Please, Mr. Judge Man: Resisting Apartheid With Song and Dance. Winter 2021 — **Please, Mr. Judge Man: Resisting Apartheid With Song and Dance**. Winter 2021

Huan Nuoyuan: Exorcism and Transformation in Miao Ritual Drama. Summer 2019 — **Huan Nuoyuan: Exorcism and Transformation in Miao Ritual Drama.** Summer 2019

Africa, Agency and the Anthropocene. 2018 — **Africa, Agency and the Anthropocene.** 2018

Narrative of PlaceChapter, TCG Press — **Narrative of Place,** Chapter, TCG Press

**Shadows in the Sun: Context, Process and Performance in Ethiopia**

Rhythm RealityChapter, Jagiellonian Univ. Press — **Rhythm Reality,** Chapter, Jagiellonian Univ. Press

**Kenyan Community Health Awareness Puppets**

Performance of Body, Space, Place: Creating Indigenous PerformanceChapter, Springer Press — **Performance of Body, Space, Place: Creating Indigenous Performance.** Chapter, Springer Press

**Politics, Slapstick and Zulus on Tour**

**People Come Out of Here: Making a New Story with the !Xuu and Khwe Bushmen**

**Zeno RoboKind: a Cognitively Capable Character**, Hanson, D., Baurmann S., Riccio, T., Margolin, R., Dockins, T., Tavares, M., Carpenter, K., “Zeno: a cognitive character, ” AI Magazine, and special Proc. of AAAI National Conference, Chicago, 2009.

**Being African, Acting French**, chapter from *Performing Africa*

**(Re) Mixing Place, Culture, and Perfor4mance**, chapter from *Performing Africa*

“He asks them to search in themselves, their experiences and memories and asks them to tell him about them. The appropriate revelations are then used where necessary being worked into the structure of the play ... Judging by what we were shown it is not very difficult to make him an equal with a master.”

— The Echo, Republic of Sakha, Siberia