Rosalind I.J. Hackett is Professor and Head, Department of Religious Studies, the University of Tennessee, adjunct in Anthropology, and faculty associate at the Baker Center for Public Policy.  She received her PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Aberdeen in 1986, and prior to that taught in Nigeria for eight years.  She is an expert on religion in Africa, notably on new religious movements, and religion and conflict.  Her latest (co-edited) book is Displacing the State: Religion and Conflict in Neoliberal Africa (2012). She serves as President of the International Association for the History of Religions and is founder/coordinator of the Jazz for Justice Project and the Gulu Study and Service Abroad Program in northern Uganda.