Originally from Virginia, USA, Assistant Professor Stuart Earle Strange received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2016. He has lived and done research all over the world and received grants from the US National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, and the Social Sciences Research Foundation. His book, Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge and Race in Multi-ethnic Suriname will be published in 2021 with the University of Toronto Press.
Asst Prof Strange’s research examines the nexus of knowledge, interaction, and personhood, with an emphasis on the politics of revelation in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia and multispecies ethnography. He has conducted ethnographic research in Suriname, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Ghana and the United States. His current research explores the meanings and ethics of control in the interpretation of other minds in Singaporean popular religion and wildlife management.
Books:
In preparation Monkey Troubles: Animals, Deities, and the Question of Control in Singapore
2021 Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Single-Authored Articles:
Forthcoming “Singapore, Plantation City?” For Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, special issue of “Interventions” section, “Plantation Methodologies: Questioning Scale, Space, and Subjecthood” edited by Andrés León Araya, Sophie Chao, and Alyssa Paredes.
2024 “Maroon Anti-Necropolitics: Multispecies Justice without Human Sovereignty.” Environmental Humanities.
2023 “Animal Deities, Domestication, and the Purpose of Control in Contemporary Singaporean Mediumship.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
2021 “Vengeful Animals, Involuntary Mourning, and the Ethics of Ndyuka Autonomy.” Cultural Anthropology 36(1): 138-165.
2019 “Indigenous Spirits, Pluralist Sovereignty, and the Aporia of Surinamese Hindu Belonging.” Ethnos 84(4): 642-659.
2018 “‘It’s your Family that Kills You’: Responsibility, Evidence, and Misfortune in the Making of Ndyuka History.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 60(3): 629-658.
2016 “The Dialogical Collective: Mediumship, Pain, and the Interactive Creation of Ndyuka Maroon Subjectivity.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22(3): 516-533.
Co-Authored Articles for Refereed Journals:
2019 Geoffrey Hughes, Megnaa Mehtta, Chiara Bresciani, and Stuart Earle Strange. “Introduction: Ugly Emotions and the Politics of Accusation.” Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 37(2): 1-20.
2018 Rogério Brites Pires, Stuart Strange, and Marcelo Moura Mello. “The Bakru Speaks: Money-Making Demons and Racial Stereotypes in Guyana and Suriname.” New West Indian Guide 92(1-2): 1-34.
Book Chapters:
2023 “Surinamese Hinduism.” In Oxford History of Hindu Studies: Hindu Diasporas, Knut Axel Jacobsen, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2019 “Spirits and Pain in the Making of Ndyuka Politics.” In Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation. Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, editor. Pp. 203-233. Leiden: Brill.
2019 “Hinduism in Suriname.” In Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Henri Gooren, editor. Pp. 566-574. Cham: Springer.
Comments & Responses:
2022 Response to “The Fragility of Human Voice: Hosting Spirits in Urban Zanzibar” by Marco Motta, Current Anthropology 63(3): 270–288.
Book Reviews:
2022 Review of The Cultural Work by Corinna Campbell. New West Indian Guide 96: 75-76..
2015 Review of The Cooking of History by Stephan Palmié. Comparative Studies in Society and History 57(1): 274-275.
2011 Review of Travels with Tooy by Richard Price. Comparative Studies in Society and History 53(2): 442-443.
