Susan McDonic (PhD Duke University) is a Temporary Visiting Professor at the American University.  Her research interests include contemporary religious movements, international development, Africa and globalization.  Specifically she studies one of the world’s largest development organizations – World Vision, a Christian Development organization.  Her multisided work spans Canada and Ghana, West Africa and considers the connections and complications between them.  Her book, Material Faith: Contending with Development, Belief, and Truth in World Vision International is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press later this year.