Paul Stoller has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa and New York City for 30 years.
His research has resulted in the publication of 10 books, including several ethnographies, collections of
essays, two memoirs, a biography, and two works of fiction as well as more than 30 articles.  One of his
books, Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City (2002) won the American Anthropological
Association's Robert B Textor Prize.  He is the recipient of many research grants and fellowships, including
awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In 1994 he was
named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow.  His research interests include the anthropology of religion,
anthropological theory, visual anthropology, and the culture of cities.  He is currently continuing his
research among West African immigrants in New York City.