A Vital Matters Voice: Kyrah Malika Daniels
Kyrah Malika
Daniels
Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Emory University
Faculty Co-Coordinator, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. She completed her B.A. in Africana Studies at Stanford University and received her M.A. in Religion and her Ph.D. in African & African American Studies at Harvard University. Daniels’ first book, Art of the Healing Gods: Illness, Imbalance & Sacred Arts of the Black Atlantic (Duke University Press, 2026), is a comparative religion project that examines sacred art objects used in healing ceremonies of Haiti and Congo-Kinshasa. Deeply invested in the digital humanities, she curates a student-led research platform called Africana Art Scholars. Her work has been published in the Journal for the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of Africana Religions, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and the Journal of Haitian Studies. Daniels currently serves as a Leadership Council Member for the African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association (ADRSA) and as Vice President for KOSANBA, the Scholarly Association for the Study of Haitian Vodou.
