Richard Vokes is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses primarily on Uganda, where he has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork since 2000. He has published extensively on new religious movements, including a study of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a charismatic Christian cult that committed mass suicide in March 2000. Vokes’ book about that research is Ghosts of Kanungu: Fertility, Secrecy, and Exchange in the Great Lakes of East Africa. He has also published extensively on African development, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the history of photography, media, and social change. His latest books include Media and Development, Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure, and Political Affect (edited with Alison Dundon), and The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Photographs from the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (with Derek R. Peterson).