Center for African Studies Faculty

 

JEREMY WEINSTEIN
Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for African Studies. 
Jeremy Weinstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), and the Center for African Studies. His research interests range across the fields of comparative politics, international relations, and political economy. Much of his current work examines the organization and behavior of non-state actors in internal conflict, but he has also written about ethnic politics, democratic transition, and humanitarian intervention.

JOEL SAMOFF
Consulting Professor
Research: African politics; Politics and education; Foreign aid; Political development and modernization; African urban politics, political economy, sociology of knowledge, computers, and social change.
Countries: Tanzania, Zambia, Bénin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

AFFILIATED FACULTY

AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN LANGUAGES (AMEL)

KWAME ASSENYOH
LecturerResearch: Akan language and culture

KHALIL BARHOUM
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, also Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Research: Arabic language and linguistics; Arabic calligraphy; Arabic bilingual issues; Arab culture and literature.
Countries: Egypt.

RAMZI SALTI
Lecturer
Research: Arabic and comparative literature.

SAMUEL MUKOMA
Lecturer
Research: Swahili language and linguistics.

ANTHROPOLOGY

PAULLA EBRON
Associate Professor
Research: Africa and the diaspora, tropical Africa, performance, gender, and social history of the tropics.
Countries: Gambia.

JAMES FERGUSON
Professor and Chair of Anthropology
Research: Issues of globalization and governmentality in contemporary Africa, the crisis of the state, and emergence of new forms of government-via-NGO. Political economy; “Development”; Systems of discourse and knowledge; Culture and power; Labor migration; Theory and politics of ethnography.
Countries: Zambia, Lesotho, South Africa.

LIISA MALKKI
Associate Professor
Research: Historical anthropology; Mass displacement and exile; Racial essentialism and mass violence; Nationalism and internationalism; Gender and imperial power.
Countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Namibia, Sudan, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt.

LYNN MESKELL
Professor
Research: Archaeological theory; Archaeology and ethnography; Egyptian archaeology; Mediterranean and Middle Eastern archaeology; The heritage of South Africa.
Countries: South Africa, Egypt

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (CEE)

ALEXANDRIA B. BOEHM
Asssociate Professor
Research: Coastal water quality in developed and developing countries, technologies for reducing the burden of infectious disease.
Countries: Kenya, South Africa.

JENNA DAVIS
Asssociate Professor
Research: the intersection of health, economic development and environmental protection, with particular emphasis on cost-effective and sustainable water supply and sanitaiton service delivery in developing countries.Countries: Kenya, Tanzania

OLIVER FRINGER
Associate Professor
Research: Supercomputing applied to the study of flows and waste transport in the environment.
Countries: Kenya, South Africa.

CLASSICS

GRANT PARKER
Associate Professor
Research: Latin and the exotic and geographic elements of Roman imperial culture; classical reception.

DRAMA

HARRY ELAM
Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Drama, Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts
Research: African American and African Diaspora theatre and performance.
Countries: Senegal, Kenya.

 

ECONOMICS

PASCALINE DUPAS
Assistant Professor and Fellow at Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research
Research: Development, Applied Microeconomics, health, education and saving.

EDUCATION

H. SAMY ALIM
Associate Professor
Research: Race, inequality and language in eductaion (RICE), ethnicity, identity, literacy and culture, and urban education.

MARTIN CARNOY
Vida Jacks Professor of Education
Research: Economics of education; Economics of human resources; Political economy; Economic development; Cost-benefit analysis; Educational systems evaluation.
Countries: Kenya, Tunisia, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Chad, South Africa.

PRUDENCE CARTER
Associate Professor
Research: Cross-national study (in the U.S. and South Africa) examining the social and cultural incorporation of students in both minority-dominant and white-dominant urban schools.

SHELLEY GOLDMAN
Professor, Director of Learning Design and Technology Program
Research: Family issues, qualitative research methods, anthropology and education, learning design, mathematics education, curriculum and instruction, parental involvement, educational equity, technology in teaching and learning, elementary education, ethnography, problem-based learning

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

BRUCE LUSIGNAN
Associate Professor, Emeritus
Research: advanced communications, including satellite, wireless, and fiber optics for TV voice and data. He has supplied international modernization plans in emerging markets, including technical, economic, and political and social factors.

FRENCH AND ITALIAN

JEAN-MARIE APOSTOLIDES
William H. Bonsall Professor in French
Research: French and Francophone African theater and literature.

ELISABETH MUDIMBE-BOYI
Professor Emerita
Research: 20th century French literature and Francophone literature from Africa and the Caribbean. Contacts of cultures, travel writing, history and memory in literature.
Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo.

HISTORY

JOEL BEININ
Donald J. McLachlan Professor
Research: Egyptian social and labor history; Contemporary history of Palestine; Palestinian-Israeli relations; Empire and culture in settler societies.
Countries: Egypt, Morocco.

JAMES T. CAMPBELL
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History
Research: African American history; South Africa; African American journeys to Africa from the mid 18th century to 2005.

SEAN HANRETTA
Associate Professor
Research: West Africa, intellectual and cultural history, Islam in Africa.
Countries: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal.

RICHARD ROBERTS 
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History
Research: The social history of law in colonial Africa; Persistence of local African industries; French colonial policy; End of slavery.
Countries: Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia.

HUMAN BIOLOGY 

RICHARD KLEIN
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Research: Interrelation of cultural, biological, and environmental change in human evolution; Reconstruction of environment, ecology, and human behavior from animal remains in archeological sites.
Countries: South Africa.

ANNE FIRTH MURRAY
Consulting Professor
Research: Economics, public administration, political science. Former writer for UN and founding president of the Global Fund for Women
Countries: East Africa

ROBERT SIEGEL
Associate Professor
Research: Infectious Disease (HIV and malaria), International Health, Medical and Health Education.
Countries: Tanzania.

law

JONATHAN GREENBERG  
Lecturer in Law
Research: International and civil conflict: history, dynamics, resolution

HELEN STACY  
Lecturer and Director, Program on Human Rights at CDDRL
Research: Sustainable development, environmental justice, feminist legal theory, human rights.

lINGUISTICS

JOAN BRESNAN
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita in Humanities at Stanford University
Research: Bantu languages, Australian Aboriginal Languages, optimality theories of linguistics.

JOHN RICKFORD
Professor
Research: Pidgin and Creole languages; Variation and change in language, especially as conditional by social class, ethnicity, and style; African American English, and its African and other sources, as well as its educational and political implications.
Countries: Guyana.

MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY

JOHN C. BOOTHROYD
Professor
Research: Malaria, cellular and molecular biology of parasitic protozoa.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

ELLEN JO BARON
Professor of Pathology
Research: Infectious diseases; microbiology; Rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases.
Countries: Kenya.

MICHELE BARRY
Senior Associate Dean for Global Health and Director of Global Health Programs in Medicine, Professor of Medicine
Research: Global health workforce, clinical tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, problems of underserved populations and globalization’s impact upon health in the developing world.
Countries: Uganda, Borneo, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Liberia, Haiti, South Africa, Liberia 

ERAN BENDAVID
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research: Using methods from several disciplines, including political science, economics and epidemiology, to study the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in developing countries.

BRIAN BLACKBURN
Clinical Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases
Research: parasitology and international health; vehicle borne diseases in refugees; the distribution of insecticide treated bednets to prevent mosquito borne diseases like Malaria and filiarisis.
Countries: Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya.

DAVID KATZENSTEIN
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
Research: Infectious diseases and epidemiology; Therapy and the consequences of global pandemics.
Countries: Southern Africa (various countries), Zimbabwe.

YVONNE MALDONADO
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Member of Child Health Research Institute
Research: Infectious disease, polio, measles, epidemiology of perinatal HIV infection in infants.

JULIE PARSONNET
Professor of Medicine and Member of Child Health Research Institute and Stanford Cancer Institute
Research: Long-term consequences of chronic interactions between the human host and the microbial world, diarrheal diseases in the developing world, and sanitation and hygiene.
Countries: Gambia

MARY LAKE POLAN
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research: Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Countries: Eritrea.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

DAVID ABERNETHY
Professor Emeritus
Research: Comparative politics, international relations, Sub-Saharan Africa, and factors affecting the rise and fall of European overseas empires.

COIT BLACKER
Director and Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute, Olivier Nomellini Professor in International Studies at the School of Humaities and Sciences
Research: Soviet/Russian foreign policy and security policy, U.S. foreign policy and security policy; national and international security relations.

LARRY DIAMOND
Director of CDDRL and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Research: Comparative problems of democratic development and consolidation; U.S. and international policies to promote democracy and foster development; Democratic consolidation in Taiwan, in comparative perspective; Democratic transitions and prospects in Africa; Public attitudes and values toward democracy in new democracies.
Countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana.

JAMES FEARON
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Research: Civil and Interstate War, Ethnic Conflict.

TERRY LYNN KARL
Professor, also Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies
Research: New democracies; The politics of oil-exporting countries; Human rights; Comparative politics, especially comparative democratization, transitions from authoritarian rule, civil wars and human rights in all regions.
Countries: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, South Africa, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo.

DAVID LAITIN
James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science
Research: ethinic conflict, comparative politics, politcal culture, language, religion, and national identities.
Countries: Somalia.

MICHAEL MCFAUL
Professor; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Research: American foreign policy; Regime change in non-democratic states; Democratization and reform in Russia; The political economy of post-communism

STEPHEN STEDMAN
Freeman Spogli Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and FSI, Affiliated Member of CISAC, and Professor of Political Science
Research: International organizations and global security, cival wars, mediation, conflict prevention, and peacekeeping.

  

PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

CHERYL KOOPMAN
Professor, Psychosocial Member at the Cancer Center
Research: Survivors of a variety of stressful events, including political and interpersonal violence, natural disasters and serious illness.

DARYN REICHERTER
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research: Psychiatry and behavioral science, psychopharmacology.

HUGH BRENT SOLVASON
Associate Professor
Research: Medication strategies for reducing cognitive impairment; treatment resistant depression, strategies to normalize the stress hormone axis in individuals with depression unresponsive to extensive pharmacologic and psychological treatments.                                                                         

PUBLIC POLICY

TIMOTHY STANTON
Director of Stanford Program Cape Town
Research: Public health policy enactment; Connections between public health policy and education; University-assisted community development, Local and regional public decision-making; Faculty development through service-learning.
Countries: South Africa.