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  1. Teaching Love: Gender Roles in Swahili Islamic Marriage Advice

    Article • Contemporary Islam, August 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor KD Thompson

  2. What Does Ushirikina Mean? Religion, Bias, and “Superstition” in Swahili

    Article • Magic Ritual and Witchcraft, March 2026, Project Muse

    Professor KD Thompson

  3. Women's Voices on Islamic Radio: Negotiating Gender, Authority, and Media in Tanzania

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Religion, February 2026, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor KD Thompson

  4. Queer Mobilities in Indonesia: Religion, Activism and Everyday Life

    Article • Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, January 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Professor KD Thompson

  5. How a Fantasy Novel Brings Medieval East Africa's Swahili Coast to Life

    Article • Al-ʿUsur al-Wusta, November 2025, Columbia University Libraries/Information Services

    Professor KD Thompson

  6. Marriage Advice Booklets Reveal Changing Muslim Identity in East Africa

    Article • Signs and Society, September 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  7. Society of the Righteous: Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania

    Article • Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor KD Thompson

  8. Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict

    Article • Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor KD Thompson

  9. Susanne Verheul. Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Vii + 265pp. Photographs and diagrams. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-1316515860.

    Article • African Studies Review, July 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  10. Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan , by Omar Kasmani, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022, xvi + 2...

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Religion, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor KD Thompson

  11. ‘Significant errors of fact’? A response to Simon Bright on nationalism, colonialism and anti-essentialism in Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts

    Article • Journal of African Cinemas, September 2022, Intellect

    Professor KD Thompson

  12. African Studies Keyword: Autoethnography

    Article • African Studies Review, May 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  13. Culture Shock: Introduction to the Special Section “Writing Ethnographically During a Pandemic” (Part One)

    Article • Anthropology & Humanism, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor KD Thompson

  14. How Progressive Muslims Create Inclusive Prayer Through Shared Bodily Experience

    Article • American Anthropologist, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor KD Thompson

  15. Queering language socialization: Fostering inclusive Muslim interpretations through talk-in-interaction

    Article • Language & Communication, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor KD Thompson

  16. Fictive Fathers in the Field

    Article • Journal of Autoethnography, January 2020, University of California Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  17. Becoming Muslims with a “Queer Voice”: Indexical Disjuncture in the Talk of LGBT Members of the Progressive Muslim Community

    Article • Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor KD Thompson

  18. When I Was a Swahili Woman: The Possibilities and Perils of “Going Native” in a Culture of Secrecy

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor KD Thompson

  19. Secrets of a Swahili Marriage

    Article • Anthropology & Humanism, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor KD Thompson

  20. Beginnings and Endings: An Autoethnographic Account of Two Zanzibari Marriages

    Article • Anthropology & Humanism, June 2017, Wiley

    Professor KD Thompson

  21. REVIEW - Brennan, James R. Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. 292 pp. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2012.

    Article • Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, September 2016, Sean Kingston Publishing

    Professor KD Thompson

  22. Sabrina Billings, Language, globalization and the making of a Tanzanian beauty queen. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2014. Pp.viii, 222. Pb. $49.95.

    Article • Language in Society, April 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  23. Discreet Talk about Supernatural Sodomy, Transgressive Gender Performance, and Male Same-Sex Desire in Zanzibar Town

    Article • GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, January 2015, Duke University Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  24. Representing language, culture, and language users in textbooks: A critical approach to swahili multiculturalism

    Article • Modern Language Journal, November 2013, Wiley

    Professor KD Thompson

  25. An Interdisciplinary Bibliography on Language, Gender, and Sexuality (2000–2011) Heiko Motschenbacher (2012) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 294

    Article • Gender and Language, October 2013, Equinox Publishing

    Professor KD Thompson

  26. SWAHILI TALK ABOUT SUPERNATURAL SODOMY

    Article • Critical Discourse Studies, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor KD Thompson

  27. Strategies for taming a Swahili husband: Zanzibari women's talk about love in Islamic marriages

    Article • Agenda, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor KD Thompson

  28. How to Be a Good Muslim Wife: Women’s Performance of Islamic Authority during Swahili Weddings

    Article • Journal of Religion in Africa, January 2011, Brill

    Professor KD Thompson

  29. Zanzibari women’s discursive and sexual agency: Violating gendered speech prohibitions through talk about supernatural sex

    Article • Discourse & Society, December 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor KD Thompson

  30. “I am Maasai”: Interpreting ethnic parody in Bongo Flava

    Article • Language in Society, August 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  31. Keeping it real: reality and representation in Maasai Hip-Hop

    Article • Journal of African Cultural Studies, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor KD Thompson

  32. The Mother Tongue and Bilingual Hysteria: Translation Metaphors in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions

    Article • The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, June 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor KD Thompson

  33. Focus on African Films by Françoise Pfaff

    Article • African Arts, October 2005, The MIT Press

    Professor KD Thompson

  34. On Framework

    Article • Film-Philosophy, February 2001, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor KD Thompson