Kenneth Routon (Ph.D. sociocultural anthropology) has  research interests which include sociocultural anthropology; critical studies in culture, power & history; popular religion, healing, and sorcery; state fetishism; phenomenology; Latin America and the Caribbean; Cuba. Kenneth completed 17 months of fieldwork in Havana, Cuba over the summer. Currently funded by a Dissertation Research Award, he is well into the writing of his dissertation (tentatively titled, Fetishizing the Revolution: Popular Religion and the Politics of Late-Socialism in Cuba). He has also completed revisions of a paper that will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology (Cuba’s Alternative Geographies) in November 2005 entitled, “Unimaginable Homelands? ‘Africa’ and the Abakuá Historical Imagination.” Another paper, “The ‘Letter of the Year’ and the Prophetics of Revolution,” will appear in Ariana Hernandez Reguant’s edited volume, NG Cuba: The Special Period and the Culture of Late-Socialism in Cuba. He is currently working on a book review essay for Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power called, “Trance-Nationalism: Religious Imaginaries in the Black Atlantic,” and revisions for two other papers, “Dirty Havana: Economies of Desire and the Magic of Transnational Romance,” and, “Maroon Nation: Bozal Spirits and the Sorcery of History” Finally, he is planning to co-organize a panel with Ariana Hernandez Reguant for the Cuban Research Institute’s annual conference in 2006 on “Fetishism and the Cuban Revolution,” at which he will present his paper, “The Comandante’s Nganga: Fantasies of Power and Auhority in Cuba.”