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Kamari Maxine Clarke has conducted research related to legal institutions, human rights, international law, religious nationalism, politics, race, and globalization for over twenty years. Her academic work explores theoretical questions around culture and power, detailing the relationship between new social formations and contemporary problems. Clarke's contributions demonstrate ethnographically how legal and religious knowledge regimes produce practices that travel globally. In addition to her scholarly work, she has served as a technical advisor to the African Union, legal counsel, and produced policy reports to help the AU navigate international law and United Nations challenges. Clarke has published nine books, including three monographs and six edited volumes, along with 50 peer-refereed journal articles and book chapters. Her notable works include "Affective Justice: International Criminal Court Pan-Africanist Pushback" (2019, Duke), "Fictions of Justice" (Cambridge, 2010), and "Mapping Yorùbá Networks" (Duke, 2004). She is recognized for her excellence in research, receiving the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2021 and being a finalist for the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amaury Talbot Book Prize in 2019.
Department of Sociology