Pashington Obeng

Pashington Obeng graduated from the University of Ghana, Legon, where he earned his B.A. (Honors) in English literature and from Trinity College, Legon where he studied comparative religion. Obeng holds a Ph.D. from Boston University specializing in religion and cultural communication. He is also a graduate of Princeton Seminary, N.J., where he studied for his master's in theological anthropology and communication. Before Princeton, he did postgraduate studies in journalism and communication at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Obeng has also done postdoctoral studies at the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Afro-American Studies Department both at Harvard University and at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, England.

Pashington Obeng is the author of Shaping Membership, Defining Nation: The Cultural Politics of African Indians in South Asia (Lexington Books, 2007) and Asante Catholicism: Religious and Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana, published by E.J. Brill in 1996 and numerous articles on religion, culture and African diaspora studies. He is current research focuses on the cosmologies and life ways of African Indians of Karnataka in south India.

Obeng, an assistant professor, teaches courses that include Images of Africana People Through the Cinema, Images of Women and Blacks in American Cinema, African Religions and New World Afro-Atlantic Religions at Wellesley College. He also teaches at Harvard University.

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