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Bio

Andrea Mariko Grant is a social anthropologist with research interests in art, memory, and popular culture, and their intersections with identity and politics. She is an Affiliated Researcher on the Past Wrongs, Future Choices project, where she explores contemporary Japanese Canadian art, including the tanka poetry of her Issei grandmother. She currently holds a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for the project, “Reckoning with Historic Injustice: Exploring Nikkei (Japanese Diasporic) Art in Canada, the US, Brazil, and Australia”, leading a team of Nikkei researchers working in their respective art communities. She also works as a community-engaged curator, helping to tell Japanese Canadian histories through collaborative public history and public art projects. 

Before coming to the 吃瓜网, she was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge (2014-2020). She received her PhD (DPhil) in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Her past work explored urban youth politics and popular culture in Rwanda.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications:

2025. Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda. International African Library Series, Cambridge University Press.

2019. ‘Bringing The Daily Mail to Africa: Entertainment Websites and the Creation of a Digital Youth Public in Post-Genocide Rwanda’, Journal of Eastern African Studies 13(1): 106-123. Also published as a book chapter in: Publics in Africa in a Digital Age (2022), edited by Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen, and George Karekwaivanane. Abingdon: Routledge.

2017. ‘The Making of a “Superstar”: The Politics of Playback and Live Performance in Post-Genocide Rwanda’, Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute 87(1): 155-179.

2015. ‘Quiet Insecurity and Quiet Agency in Post-Genocide Rwanda’, Etnofoor 27(2): 15-36.