Adele Leigh Stock

Adele is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Africa field who works at the intersections of environment, infrastructure, and religious life. They have conducted research in Johannesburg, Kampala, and Accra on the relationship between spiritually important bodies of water and urban pollution in the worldmaking practices of ordinary people. Their dissertation project, prospectively titled “Shaping Space, Making Place: Urban Planning, Swampland, and Spiritual Citizenship in Twentieth Century Kampala” traces histories of material and spiritual power through the role swampy lowlands have played in Kampala, Uganda’s development in the last 120 years. Adele grew up outside of Miami, Florida, and lives in San Francisco, where they enjoy trail running and reading in sunny parks.