Director's Profile

Originally from Yorkshire, Emma studied Theology at the University of Edinburgh before teaching at the Provincial Theological College of the Anglican Church of Congo and in Uganda as a CMS mission partner. She is an affiliated lecturer of Cambridge University. She is also a part-time tutor at Wesley House, Cambridge, and a PhD supervisor for Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. She is married with three children.

Emma teaches courses on Mission, Culture, African Christianity and Christian History in the Cambridge Theological Federation and the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge University.

Books and Selected Articles

The East African Revival: History and Legacies, edited with Kevin Ward, Kampala, Fountain, 2010, ISBN.978 9970 25 014 1 and Ashgate 2012.

Migration and Christian Identity in Congo (DRC), Leiden, Brill, 2008.

‘La Province de l’Eglise Anglicane du Congo (PEAC)’ with Titre Ande, in Ian S Markham and Justyn Terry (eds), Blackwells Companion to the Anglican Communion, Oxford, Blackwells, 2012.

 ‘Attending to Translocal Identities: How Congolese Anglicans talk about their Church,’ Journal of Anglican Studies 9.1 (2011), 80-99.

‘The Making of an African Missionary Hero in the English Biographies of Apolo Kivebulaya (1923-1936),’ Journal of Religion in Africa 40 (2010).

‘Worldwide Shifts in Mission from 1910 to 2010: A sketch’ Theology, May/June 2010, 163-173.

‘Mission and Home-Making: Church Expansion through Migration in DR Congo,’ in Mission and Migration, Stephen Spencer, ed., Sheffield, Cliff College Publishing, 2008.

“Free from shackles” or “dirtied”? The Contested Pentecostalisation of Anglican Congregations in DR Congo,’ Transformation 25,2-3 (2008) 103-115.

‘Saint Apolo from Europe or What’s in a Luganda Name?’ Church History, 77, 1(2008) 1-23.

‘Boundary Crossing and Boundary Marking: Radical Revival in Congo and Uganda from 1948.’ Studies in Church History 44: Revival and Resurgence, 2008.

‘ “Se Debroullier” or the Art of Serendipity in Oral History Research’, History in Africa 34 (2007) 367-381.

‘“One Day We Will Sing In God’s Home”: Hymns and Songs Sung in the Anglican Church in North-East Congo (DRC)’, with Peter Wood. Journal of Religion in Africa, 34.1-2, (2004) 145-180

'An Introduction to an Oral History and Archive Project by the Anglican Church of Congo,' History in Africa, 28, (2001): 445-462.

‘”Walking in the Light”: the Liturgy of Fellowship in the early years of the East African Revival’, in R.N. Swanson (ed), Studies in Church History, 35: Continuity and Change in Christian Worship, Suffolk, Boydell Press, 1999: 419-431.

‘”Is it witchcraft? Is it Satan? It is a miracle’. Mai-Mai soldiers and Christian concepts of evil in North-East Congo’, Journal of Religion in Africa, 28 (4) 1998:450-467.

‘Etoufflement de droits ou union vitale? La femme, la culture et le christianisme au Zaire’ The Year Book of the European Society of Women in Theological Research 1997:158-166.

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