Katharine Gerbner

Katharine Gerbner, Associate Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota, explores how Obeah was framed and criminalized in eighteenth-century Jamaica. She traces Moravian missionary archives, explains her method of identifying archival “irruptions,” and recounts fieldwork with Maroon communities. The conversation centers on archival discovery, methodological innovation, and the colonial making of religion.