Daniel Jordan Smith joined the Department of Anthropology at Brown University in 2001. He received an AB in Sociology from Harvard University (1983), an MPH from Johns Hopkins University (1989), and a PhD in Anthropology from Emory University (1999). Smith conducts research in Nigeria focusing on a range of issues, including population processes, political culture, kinship, infrastructure, and health. He won the 2008 Margaret Mead Award for his book, A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria (Princeton University Press, 2007). Professor Smith’s second single-authored book, AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014) won the 2015 Elliott P. Skinner Award from the Association for Africanist Anthropology. He is also the author of To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which received Special Commendation for the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Smith's most recent project, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020, investigated how Nigerians cope with widespread failures of fundamental infrastructure and basic services, with particular attention to how the resulting entrepreneurial activities and informal economic enterprises are, paradoxically, central to the consolidation of state power and the substance of citizenship. His book based on this research, Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria, was published in March 2022 by Princeton University Press.
He was the recipient of the 2007-9 William C. McGloughlin Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences and from 2015 until 2018 he was appointed a Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence. From 2006-2011 he was Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center and from 2012-2019 he was Chair of the Department of Anthropology. In 2017, Smith was the keynote speaker at Brown's Convocation. He is currently Director of the Watson Institute's Africa Initiative.
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Smith, Daniel Jordan.
Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria. Princeton University Press, 2022.
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Smith, Daniel Jordan.
"The Pentecostal Prosperity Gospel in Nigeria: Paradoxes of Corruption and Inequality." Journal of Modern African Studies, vol. 59, no. 1, 2021, pp. 103-121.
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| Smith DJ. "Masculinity, Money, and the Postponement of Parenthood in Nigeria." Population and Development Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2020, pp. 101-120. |
| Smith DJ. "Corruption and "Culture" in Anthropology and in Nigeria"." Current Anthropology, vol. 59, no. Suppl 18, 2018, pp. S83-S91. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan, Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer A. "Special Issue: Population and Development: Comparative Anthropological Perspectives." Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 50, no. 4, 2015, pp. 433-454. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Corruption complaints, inequality and ethnic grievances in post-Biafra Nigeria." Third World Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 5, 2014, pp. 787-802. |
| SMITH, DANIEL JORDAN. "AN UNEASY SEXUAL VANGUARD Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality & Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi. By Spronk. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. xi+310. $95, hardback (isbn 978-0-85745-478-2)." J. Afr. Hist., vol. 54, no. 02, 2013, pp. 294-296. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "HEALTH AND DISEASE Hansjorg Dilger and Ute Luig, eds. Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. x + 354 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $95.00. Cloth. $37.95. Paper. Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Jane Prince. The Land Is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010. xix + 423 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. $39.95. Paper." Afr. stud. rev., vol. 56, no. 01, 2013, pp. 199-201. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "AIDS NGOS and corruption in Nigeria." Health & Place, vol. 18, no. 3, 2012, pp. 475-480. |
| Marshall, Ruth, Peel, J.D.Y., Smith, Daniel Jordan, Robbins, Joel, Bayart, Jean-François. "An Author Meets Her Critics: Around Ruth Marshall’s Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria." Religion and Society: Advances in Research, vol. 2, no. 1, 2011, pp. 138-157. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Rural-to-urban migration, kinship networks, andfertility among the Igbo in Nigeria." APS, vol. 25, no. 2, 2011. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania by Brad Weiss." American Anthropologist, vol. 113, no. 3, 2011, pp. 536-536. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan, Mbakwem, Benjamin C. "Antiretroviral therapy and reproductive life projects: Mitigating the stigma of AIDS in Nigeria." Social Science & Medicine, vol. 71, no. 2, 2010, pp. 345-352. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life. By Eric M Uslaner." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 8, no. 04, 2010, pp. 1177-1178. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Corruption, NGO s, and Development in Nigeria." Third World Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, 2010, pp. 243-258. |
| SMITH, DANIEL JORDAN. "Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community by Deborah Pellow." American Ethnologist, vol. 37, no. 1, 2010, pp. 181-182. |
| Daniel Jordan Smith, None. "Promiscuous Girls, Good Wives, and Cheating Husbands: Gender Inequality, Transitions to Marriage, and Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria." Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 83, no. 1, 2010, pp. 123-152. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Response to Eric Uslaner's review of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 8, no. 04, 2010, pp. 1176-1177. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Modern Marriage, Men’s Extramarital Sex, and HIV Risk in Southeastern Nigeria." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 97, no. 6, 2007, pp. 997-1005. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Legacies of Biafra: Marriage, ‘Home People’ and Reproduction Among the Igbo of Nigeria." Africa, vol. 75, no. 01, 2005, pp. 30-45. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Oil, Blood and Money: Culture and Power in Nigeria." Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 78, no. 3, 2005, pp. 725-740. |
| White, Michael J., Tagoe, Eva, Stiff, Catherine, Adazu, Kubaje, Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Urbanization and the fertility transition in Ghana." Popul Res Policy Rev, vol. 24, no. 1, 2005, pp. 59-83. |
| SMITH, DANIEL JORDAN. "Burials and Belonging in Nigeria: Rural-Urban Relations and Social Inequality in a Contemporary African Ritual." American Anthropologist, vol. 106, no. 3, 2004, pp. 569-579. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Contradictions in Nigeria's Fertility Transition: The Burdens and Benefits of Having People." Population and Development Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 2004, pp. 221-238. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Premarital Sex, Procreation, and HIV Risk in Nigeria." Studies in Family Planning, vol. 35, no. 4, 2004, pp. 223-235. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "The Bakassi Boys: Vigilantism, Violence, and Political Imagination in Nigeria." Cult. Anthropol., vol. 19, no. 3, 2004, pp. 429-455. |
| Smith, Daniel Jordan. "Youth, sin and sex in Nigeria: Christianity and HIV/AIDS‐related beliefs and behaviour among rural‐urban migrants." Culture, Health & Sexuality, vol. 6, no. 5, 2004, pp. 425-437. |
Professor Smith conducts research in medical anthropology, anthropological demography, and political anthropology in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Nigeria. His research in medical and demographic anthropology includes work on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and behavior, adolescent sexuality, marriage, kinship, and rural-urban migration. His work on political culture in Nigeria includes studies of patron-clientism, Pentecostal Christianity, vigilantism, corruption, and infrastructure.
Broadly, Professor Smith's research focuses on understanding the intersection of social change and social reproduction, particularly as it unfolds in population processes and health-related behavior. Completed research projects have investigated the influence of migration on family organization and reproductive behavior as people live across rural-urban boundaries. Smith has also studied the effects of rural-urban migration on sexual behavior and HIV risk among adolescents and unmarried young adults. He led the Nigeria component of an NIH-supported, five-country comparative ethnographic study entitled "Love, Marriage, and HIV." The research examined the changing expectations and pragmatics of modern marriage, documenting and analyzing the organization and opportunity structures of extramarital relationships, investigating how gender is configured in contemporary sexual and romantic relationships, and evaluating the effect of these patterns on the transmission of HIV. More recently, Smith completed a study of the ways that Pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria has intersected with the AIDS epidemic, looking at the seemingly paradoxical role of these popular churches in both exacerbating stigma and offering important places of support for people living with HIV. Smith’s work also examines political culture in Nigeria, especially issues related to inequality and development. Much of this work focuses on understanding the intersection of social imagination, politics, and contemporary issues in Nigeria, including democracy, violence, vigilantism, corruption, and infrastructure.
His first book, A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria (Princeton University Press, 2007), for which he received the 2008 Margaret Mead Award, examines ordinary Nigerians' participation in corruption, even as they are its main victims and its loudest critics. His second book, a co-authored volume, The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009), presents comparative findings from the five-country study described above. Professor Smith’s second single-authored book, AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2014), for which he received the 2015 Elliott P. Skinner Award, analyzes popular responses to the AIDS epidemic as a prism to understand wider phenomena. His third single-authored book, To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria (University of Chicago Press, 2017), focuses on masculinity in Nigeria, exploring the intertwining dynamics of money and intimacy, as gender sits at the center of complex social transformations. It received Special Commendation for the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Smith's most recent research examined how Nigerians manage to cobble together basic infrastructure in the face of state failure to deliver essential services, with particular attention to how these processes in fact contribute to state power and constitute the substance of citizenship. His book based on this research, Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria, was published by Princeton University Press in March 2022.
Current Grants
Completed Grants
National Institutes of Health (D43-TW011308-01; $299,554; 04/01/19-03/31/24). Co-Investigator (Chris Colvin, University of Cape Town, PI), “Building Research to Integrate and Deepen the Gains against HIV through the Social Sciences: The BRIDGES Programme.”
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ($50,000; 07/01/2020 – 06/30/2021). Fellowship for project: “Infrastructural Deficiency, State Complicity, and Entrepreneurial Citizenship in Nigeria.”
Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, funded by the Templeton Foundation (Grant # 13893, Subcontract # 143426; $80,898; 05/1/2010 05/31/2012). Key Investigator for a study entitled "Pentecostalism and AIDS in Nigeria."
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Grant #2009-4053; $500,000; 07/20/2009 07/20/2012), for general support of Brown's Population Studies and Training Center. Principal Investigator for Training Grant focused on recruitment, pre-doctoral training, early post-PhD careers of population scientists from developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa.
National Science Foundation (DGE-0903668; $3,130,572; 08/15/09 07/31/14). Co-Principal Investigator (Barbara Stallings, Brown University, PI) on an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT) grant, "An Integrated Program on Development and Inequality in the Global South."
National Science Foundation (BCS-1021889; $14,910; Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Stacey Vanderhurst); 9/01/2010 02/29/2012), study entitled "Migration Management in Nigeria."
National Institutes of Health (1 R01 HD057792-01A2; $141,965; 09/30/2009 08/31/2011). Sub-contract for ARRA planning grant (Jennifer Hirsch, Columbia University, PI) entitled "Life Projects and Antiretroviral Therapy: The Social Impacts of Scale-up."
National Science Foundation (BCS 0921638; $15,000; Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Inna Leykin); 09/01/2009 02/28/2011), study entitled "Reproducing Russians: Population Science, Policy, and Kinship in 21st Century Russia."
National Institutes of Health Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research Developmental Award (P30 AI042853; $40,000; 10/01/2006 9/30/2008) entitled "Religious Organizations, HIV/AIDS and the Scale-up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Nigeria." Principal Investigator in pilot study that aimed to examine the extent and nature of Pentecostal churches' and affiliated associations' participation in HIV-related activities, the factors that influence such involvement, and its effectiveness.
National Science Foundation (BCS 0612800; $12,000; Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Kathryn Rhine); 08/01/2006 07/30/2007) entitled "Positive Living and Antiretroviral Therapy: Marriage, Divorce and the Life Course of HIV-Infected Women in Northern Nigeria."
National Science Foundation (BCS 0413600; $12,000; Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (Bruce Whitehouse); 10/15/04 10/15/06) entitled "Transnationalism, Islam and Commerce among Malian Immigrants in Brazzaville."
National Institutes of Health (1 R01 41724-01A1; $143,683; 08/11/2003 06/30/2007) study entitled "Love, Marriage and HIV: A Multi-Site Study of Gender and HIV Risk." Sub-contractor and the Principal Investigator for the Nigeria component of this $1.5 million five-country comparative ethnographic study of how changing ideologies and practices of marriage are affecting the social construction of gender roles in ways that influence the epidemiology of HIV transmission, particularly between husbands and wives.
National Science Foundation (BCS-0075764; $137,139; 08/01/2000 07/31/2004) study entitled "Migration, Kinship Networks, and Reproduction in Nigeria." Principal Investigator in research that combined anthropological and demographic methods to examine social and reproductive processes in an Igbo-speaking community that extends across rural-urban boundaries.
National Institutes of Health (3 P30 HD28251-10S1; $199,977; 07/01/2000 06/30/2003) study entitled "Adolescents, HIV/AIDS, and Rural-Urban Migration in Nigeria." Primary investigator in research that involved collaboration with Nigerian university and non-governmental organization partners to examine the effects of adjustment to urban life on sexual behavior and HIV/AIDS risk among adolescent and young adult migrants in two cities in Nigeria.
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (#6636; $18,400; 06/09/2000 06/30/2001) pilot study entitled "Migration, Kinship Networks, and Reproduction in Nigeria." Principal Investigator in research that examined social and reproductive processes as they are affected by rural-urban migration in Nigeria. Pilot study resulted in larger ongoing NSF study described above.
2022. Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria. Princeton University Press.
2021. “The Pentecostal Prosperity Gospel in Nigeria: Paradoxes of Corruption and Inequality.” Journal of Modern African Studies59(1):103-122.
2020. “Masculinity, Money, and the Postponement of Parenthood in Nigeria.” Population and Development Review 46(1):101-120.
2020. “Best, Worst, and Good Enough: Lessons Learned from Multisited Comparative Ethnography.” Hirsch, Jennifer, Wardlow, Holly, Smith, Daniel Jordan, Phinney, Harriet, Parikh, Shanti, and Nathanson, Constance. In: Comparing Cultures: Innovations in Comparative Ethnography, Michael Schnegg and Edward D. Lowe, eds. Cambridge University Press, pp. 155-179.
2019. “Sociality, Money, and the Making of Masculine Privilege in Nigerian Sports Clubs.” In Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent, Kemi Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu, eds. Ohio University Press, pp. 93-102.
2018. “Corruption and ‘Culture’ in Anthropology and in Nigeria.” Current Anthropology 59(S18):S83-S91.
2018. “Progress and Setbacks in Nigeria’s Anticorruption Efforts.” In Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics, Carl LeVan and Patrick Ukata, eds. Oxford University Press, pp. 288-301.
2018. “From Structural Analysis to Pragmatic Action: Meso-level Modifiable Social Determinants of HIV Vulnerability for Labor Migrants.” Hirsch, Jennifer, Philbin, Morgan, Smith, Daniel Jordan, and Parker, Richard. In Structural Dynamics of HIV: Risk, Resilience and Response, Deanna Kerrigan and Claire Barrington, eds. Springer, pp. 19-43.
2017. To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2016. “Modern Marriage, Masculinity, and Intimate Partner Violence in Nigeria.” In Marital Rape: Consent, Marriage, and Social Change in Global Context, Kersti Yllo and M. Gabriela Torres, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 41-54.
2015. “The Contradictions of Corruption in Nigeria.” In International Handbook of Political Corruption, Paul Heywood, ed. Routledge, pp. 56-66.
2015. Smith, D. and J. Johnson-Hanks. “Introduction” to special issue, “Population and Development: Comparative Anthropological Perspectives” Studies in Comparative International Development 54(4):433-454.
2014. AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2014. “From Favors to Bribes: The Social Context of Corruption in Nigeria.” In How to Pay a Bribe: Thinking Like a Criminal to Thwart Bribery Schemes, 2014 Edition, Alexandra Wrage & Severin Wirz, editors, TRACE International, pp. 84-94.
2012. “AIDS NGOS and Corruption in Nigeria.” Health & Place. 18(3):475-480.
2011. “Benefiting from AIDS in Contemporary Nigeria.” Anthropology Now. 3(3):1-9.
2011. “Rural-to-Urban Migration, Kinship Networks, and Fertility among the Igbo in Nigeria.” African Population Studies. 25(2):320-336.
2011. “Stretched and Strained but Not Broken: Kinship in Contemporary Nigeria.” In Frontiers of Globalization: Kinship and Family Structures in Africa, Ana Marta González, Laurie de Rose, and Florence Oloo, eds. Africa World Press, pp 31-69.
2010. "Promiscuous Girls, Good Wives, and Cheating Husbands: Gender Inequality, Transitions to Marriage, and Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria." Anthropological Quarterly 81(1):123-152.
2010. "Corruption, NGOs, and Development in Nigeria." Third World Quarterly 32(2):243-258.
2010. Smith, D. and B. Mbakwem. "Antiretroviral Therapy and Reproductive Life Projects: Mitigating the Stigma of AIDS in Nigeria." Social Science & Medicine. 71(2):345-352.
2010. "Nigerian Scams as Political Critique: Globalization, Inequality and 419." In Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation, Richard Grinker, Stephen Lubkemann, and Christopher Steiner, eds. Blackwell Publishers, pp. 616-628.
2010. "Migration, Gender, and Sexual Economies: Young Female Rural-Urban Migrants in Nigeria." In International Handbook on Gender and Poverty (Sylvia Chant, ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 290-295.
2009. "Managing Men, Marriage and Modern Love: Women's Perspectives on Intimacy and Male Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria." In Love in Africa, Jennifer Cole and Lynn Thomas, eds. University of Chicago Press, pp.157-180.
2009 The Secret: Love, Marriage, and HIV. (Co-authored with Jennifer S. Hirsch, Holly Wardlow, Harriet Phinney, Shanti Parikh and Constance A. Nathanson.) Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
2009. "The Paradoxes of Popular Participation in Corruption in Nigeria." In Corruption, Global Security, and World Order, Robert Rotberg, ed. Brookings Institution Press, pp.283-309.
2009. "Migration, Men's Extramarital Sex and the Risk of HIV Infection in Nigeria." In Mobility, Sexuality and AIDS,, Felicity Thomas, Mary Haour-Knipe, and Peter Aggleton, eds. Routledge, pp.187-198.
2008. "Cell Phones, Sharing, and Social Status in an African Society." In Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, 8th Edition, Aaron Podolefsky, Peter Brown and Scott Lacy, eds. McGraw-Hill, pp.254-260.
2008. Mbakwem, B. and D. Smith. "'Returned to Sender': Corruption in International Health." In The Practice of International Health: A Case-Based Orientation, Daniel Perlman and Ananya Roy, eds. Oxford University Press, pp.217-230.
2008. "Intimacy, Infidelity, and Masculinity in Southeastern Nigeria." In Intimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures, William Jankowiak, ed. Columbia University Press, pp.224-244.
2007. A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2007. "Modern Marriage, Men's Extramarital Sex, and HIV Risk in Nigeria." American Journal of Public Health 97(6):997-1005.
2007. "Corruption, Culture Politique et Démocratie au Nigeria: Réactions Populaires à la Croisade Anti-corruption du Président Obasanjo." Politique Africaine 106:28-45.
2007. Smith, D. and B. Mbakwem. "Life Projects and Therapeutic Itineraries: Marriage, Fertility, and Antiretroviral Therapy in Nigeria." AIDS 21(suppl 5):S37-S41.
2007. "Café Crimes: The Young Struggle-Men Who Want Your Money." WorldView Spring 2007:33-35.
2006. "Cell Phones, Social Inequality, and Contemporary Culture in Southeastern Nigeria." Canadian Journal of African Studies 40(3):496-523.
2006. Smith, D. and B. Mbakwem. "Love, Marriage and Positive Living." Sexuality in Africa 3(4):4-6.
2006. "Violent Vigilantism and the State in Nigeria: The Case of the Bakassi Boys." In States of Violence: Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa, Edna Bay and Donald Donham, eds. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, pp.127-147.
2006. "Love and the Risk of HIV: Courtship, Marriage and Infidelity in Southeastern Nigeria." In Modern Loves: The Anthropology of Romantic Courtship and Companionate Marriage, Jennifer Hirsch and Holly Wardlow, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp.137-153.
2006. "Internal Migration and the Escalation of Ethnic and Religious Violence in Urban Nigeria." In Cities in Contemporary Africa, Martin Murray and Garth Meyers, eds. Palgrave, pp.53-69.
2005. "Legacies of Biafra: Marriage, 'Home People' and Human Reproduction among the Igbo of Nigeria." Africa 75(1):30-45.
2005. White, M., E. Tagoe, C. Stiff, K. Adazu, and D. Smith. "Urbanization and the Fertility Transition in Ghana." Population Research and Policy Review 24(1):59-83.
2004. "The Bakassi Boys: Vigilantism, Violence and Political Imagination in Nigeria." Cultural Anthropology 19(3):429-455.
2004. "Burials and Belonging in Nigeria: Rural-Urban Relations and Social Inequality in a Contemporary African Ritual." American Anthropologist 106(3):569-579.
2004. "Contradictions in Nigeria's Fertility Transition: The Burdens and Benefits of Having People." Population and Development Review 30(2):221-238.
2004. "Youth, Sin and Sex in Nigeria: Christianity and HIV-related Beliefs and Behaviour among Rural-Urban Migrants." Culture, Health & Sexuality 6(5):425-437.
2004. "Premarital Sex, Procreation and HIV Risk in Nigeria." Studies in Family Planning 35(4):223-235.
2004. "HIV/AIDS in Nigeria: The Challenges of a National Epidemic." In Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges, Robert Rotberg, ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, pp.199-217.
2004. "Igbo." In The Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Men and Women in the World's Cultures, Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Kluwer/Plenum, pp.508-517.
2003. "Patronage, Per Diems and 'The Workshop Mentality': The Practice of Family Planning Programs in Southeastern Nigeria." World Development 31(4):703-715.
2003. "Imagining HIV/AIDS: Morality and Perceptions of Personal Risk in Nigeria." Medical Anthropology 22(4):343-372.
2002. "'Man No Be Wood': Gender and Extramarital Sex in Contemporary Southeastern Nigeria." The Ahfad Journal 19(2):4-23.
2001. "Ritual Killing, '419' and Fast Wealth: Inequality and the Popular Imagination in Southeastern Nigeria." American Ethnologist 28(4):1-24.
2001. "Kinship and Corruption in Contemporary Nigeria." Ethnos 66(3):344-364.
2001. "Romance, Parenthood and Gender in a Modern African Society." Ethnology 40(2):129-151.
2001. "'The Arrow of God': Pentecostalism, Inequality and the Supernatural in Southeastern Nigeria." Africa 71(4):587-613.
2000. "'These Girls Today Na War-O': Premarital Sexuality and Modern Identity in Southeastern Nigeria." Africa Today 47(3-4):98-120.
1996. Brown, P., M. Inhorn, and D. Smith. "Disease, Ecology and Human Behavior." In Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Methods, Revised Edition, C. Sargent and T. Johnson, eds. Westport, CT: Praeger, pp.183-218.
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| 1999 | PhD | Emory University |
| 1989 | MPH | The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1983 | BA | Harvard University |
2022 Karen T. Romer Prize for Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring
2020-21 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow
2018- Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies
2017 Special Commendation for the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology for his book To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job: Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria, from the Royal Anthropological Institute.
2015-2018 Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence
2015 Elliott P. Skinner Award for his book AIDS Doesn't Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria. Awarded by the Association for Africanist Anthropology.
2011 Scholarly Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy to complete a book project The Imagined Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria.
2008 Margaret Mead Award for his book A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria . Awarded jointly by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology to a younger scholar for a particular accomplishment that interprets anthropological data and principles in ways that make them meaningful to a broadly concerned public.
2007-2009 William G. McLoughlin Award for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
2004-2007 Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2004
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1999
African Studies Association
American Anthropological Association
American Ethnological Society
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
Population Association of America
Society for Medical Anthropology
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