Dominique Somda

Dominique Somda is Director of African Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Paris Nanterre and previously held a research fellowship at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at the University of Cape Town. She has held visiting appointments at Reed College and the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral fellowships at the London School of Economics and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.
Her research examines how inequality and egalitarianism emerge through everyday practices, with interests spanning the anthropology of slavery, democracy, Christianity, feminist and postcolonial studies, and the religious ethics of medical technologies. Her regional focus is Madagascar. She serves as an editor of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.