Todd Vanden Berg
Professor of Anthropology
Department Chair
Office: Spoelhof Center 227
Telephone: (616) 526-6705
E-mail: tvdberg@calvin.edu

Todd Vanden Berg joined the faculty at Calvin College in 1996 after completing his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed his B.A. in Sociology from Calvin College in 1988 and his M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from SUNY at Buffalo in 1992. Prof. Vanden Berg has done fieldwork with the Longuda of Adamawa State Nigeria. Related to this fieldwork he has published on the topics of involuntary resettlement as well as on issues of religious integration - specifically witchcraft beliefs of Longuda Lutheran Christians. His most recent publication is "Culture, Christianity, and Witchcraft in a West African Context." (In the Changing Face of Christianity: Africa, the West, and the World. Eds. Lamin Sanneh, and Joel Carpeter. Oxford University Press, 2005).

Prof. Vanden Berg is also involved in the International Development Studies Major. He is currently writing on the interaction of the discipline of anthropology of Christianity and has just published a Reformed defense of Christians in anthropology in Christian Scholar's Review (XXXV:3. Spring 2006). He teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Intercultural Communication, and The Anthropology of Religion.