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Daniel Jordan Smith
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Brown University

Daniel Jordan Smith is the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. He is also the Associate Director of Brown’s Population Studies and Training Center. He has worked, lived and conducted research in Nigeria since 1989. Smith’s research includes work in medical anthropology on Nigeria’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, in population studies focusing on migration, marriage, reproduction and gender, and in political anthropology examining contemporary political culture. He has published widely on Nigeria in journals such as Africa, Africa Today, American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Population and Development Review, and World Development. His recent book, A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria, is published by Princeton University Press.