Albert Wuaku

Albert Wuaku is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Religious Studies at Florida International University (FIU). His scholarly work focuses on the interplay between religion, culture, and socio-political contexts, particularly within African and Afro-Caribbean traditions.

• Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of Toronto
• BA in Religious Studies, University of Ghana
• Certificate in Peace Studies, University of Oslo
• MA in Religion and Society, McMaster University

His research explores the global circulation of African religious practices, including Vodou in Miami's Little Haiti and Hinduism in Ghana. He is known for Hindu Gods in West Africa (Brill, 2013), a pioneering study on Ghanaian Hindu temples. Wuaku's fieldwork investigates Afro-Caribbean migrants as agents of religious healing, bridging biomedical and holistic health paradigms. He teaches courses on African/African Diaspora religions, field research methods, and sociology/anthropology of religion at FIU, where he has worked since 2006.