Andrea Mariko Grant

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Andrea Mariko Grant is a Research Associate on the Past Wrongs, Future Choices project. A social anthropologist by training, her work explores the intersections between art, memory, and politics, with previous work on youth politics and popular culture in urban Rwanda. Her current research considers Japanese Canadian art, including the tanka poetry of her Issei grandmother. She is particularly interested in how Nikkei artists conceptualize and engage with the archive in its various forms. She holds a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for the project, “Reckoning with Historic Injustice: Exploring Nikkei Art in Canada, the US, Brazil, and Australia”, leading a team of Nikkei researchers working in their respective art communities. She also acts as a community-engaged curator, helping to tell Japanese Canadian stories through collaborative public history and public art projects. She sits on the board of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, Toronto chapter.

Her publications include:

  • Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda. Cambridge University Press. 2025.
  • (Book chapter) ‘Bringing The Daily Mail to Africa: Entertainment Websites and the Creation of a Digital Youth Public in Post-Genocide Rwanda’, Publics in Africa in a Digital Age. Edited by Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen, and George Karekwaivanane. Abingdon: Routledge. 2022. (Also published as an article in Journal of Eastern African Studies 13, No. 1 (2019): 106-123.)

  • ‘Quiet Insecurity and Quiet Agency in Post-Genocide Rwanda’, Etnofoor 27, No. 2 (2015): 15-36.