Tammy Wilks

Tammy Wilks is an A.W Mellon fellow under the Archie Mafeje Decolonial Humanities Scholarship and a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her dissertation examines the way religious communities in Nairobi, Kenya, understand and practice religious tolerance when the Kenyan state assigns each religious community a different set of political rights and resources. She is particularly interested in the local strategies that these religious communities create to negotiate their political difference and different access to political resources. Tammy has published on religious tolerance in African contexts in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the leading journal of her field and regularly contributes to debates on religious tolerance by participating in conferences and teaching on the topic at the University of Cape Town. She is currently a Lampert Research Fellow in Civic and Global Affairs at Colgate University.