Naomi Haynes

Naomi Haynes is a doctoral candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She is currently writing a dissertation based on 20 months of fieldwork on the Zambian Copperbelt, which was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant. Haynes' research is focused on the relationship between Pentecostalism and political economy in urban Africa. By tracing the contours of and connections between these spheres, her dissertation explores the ways in which Pentecostals engage their communities. Rather than interpreting this form of Christianity as an outgrowth of other social, political, or economic forces, Haynes is interested in the way that Pentecostalism acts on social life.