| erinmacleod@erinmacleod.ca |

Based in Montréal, Canada, my work draws on the perspectives of postcolonial studies, social movements, intercultural communication, migratory processes and globalization through its investigation of issues of identity, gender, culture, class, race and space/geography.

I am the author of Visions of Zion: Ethiopians and Rastafari in the Search for the Promised Land (NYU Press, 2014) and co-editor of Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean (UWI Press, 2020). My writing has appeared in numerous publications including the Walrus, New York Times, Guardian, NPR, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and many others.

I hold a PhD in Communications from McGill University and a Master's in English Literature from the University of Toronto, and have taught and lectured at the college and university levels in Ethiopia, Canada and Jamaica.

I have extensive experience in education, communications, journalism, publishing, international development and the not-for-profit sectors. I presently act as a consultant to international development organizations, with a particular focus on research, monitoring and evaluation, learning, gender equality, volunteering and civil society. My work has included projects across Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

I have also completed extensive fieldwork in Ethiopia, Jamaica and Costa Rica. My research has been supported by fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

My current work continues to move between scholarship, journalism, teaching and international development, with particular interests in culture and music, identity, migration, social change and the ways people make meaning in an increasingly mediated world.