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Professor Brennan is a specialist on religions in Africa. She received her B.A. in Music from Syracuse University, her M.A. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Washington, and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the relationships between music, religion, and politics in contemporary Nigeria. She is currently working on a book project that details how Yoruba Christians use music to produce forms of community and identity that work to articulate and mediate religious values in relation to political-economic changes in Nigeria since 1999. She also has begun research on the relationships between commercially recorded gospel music, new media technologies, and religious publics in Nigeria.