Barbara Bompani Barbara Bompani (she/her) is an Associate Professor in African History and Institutions at the University of Parma, Italy and honorary fellow at the Center of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Her research broadly focuses on religion, politics and development in Africa. In the past ten years, she investigated the relationships between sexuality and public religion, in particular conservative Christianity, in East Africa. She has published widely on these topics, and was co-editor of the volume Christian Citizens and the Moral Regeneration of the African State (2017).