Faculty
Center for African Studies
Richard Roberts
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History and Director of the Center for African Studies
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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
Joel Samoff
Consulting Professor
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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)
Khalil Barhoum
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, also Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
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Research: Arabic language and linguistics; Arabic calligraphy; Arabic bilingual issues; Arab culture and literature
Countries: Egypt
Sanghai Mohochi
Lecturer
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Research: Swahili language pedagogy Countries: Kenya
Ramzi Salti
Lecturer
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Research: Arabic and Comparative Literature
Galen Sibanda
Lecturer
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Research: Fulaar
Anthropology
David DeGusta
Assistant Professor
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Research: African mammal evolution, recovery and analysis of skeletal remains; Primate
evolution, ecology, and behavior
Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa
Richard Klein
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
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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
Joanna Mountain
Assistant Professor - consulting
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Research: Human genetic diversity of Africa; Comparisons of genetic, linguistic and cultural variation among human populations; Multilocus approaches to the inference of human population history; Socially-defined categories of race, ethnicity, caste and tribe in the context of genetic diversity
Countries: Kenya, Tanzania
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
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
ART AND HISTORY
Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz
Assistant Professor
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Research: Kongo Machinery: graphic writing and other narratives of the sign
Countries: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (CEE)
Oliver Fringer
Associate Professor
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Research: Supercomputing applied to the study of flows and waste transport in the environment
Countries: Kenya, South Africa
DRAMA
Harry Elam
Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Drama, Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts
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Research: African American and African Diaspora theatre and performance
Countries: Senegal, Kenya
EDUCATION
Martin Carnoy
Vida Jacks Professor of Education
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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
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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
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Bruce Lusignan
Associate Professor
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Research: International cooperation in space exploration, war and peace, trade and environment, and poverty and prejudice.
FRENCH AND ITALIAN
Jean-Marie Apostolides
William H. Bonsall Professor in French
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Research: French and Francophone African theater and literature
Elisabeth Boyi
Professor of French and Comparative Literature
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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
Professor
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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
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Research: African American history; South Africa; African American journeys to Africa from the mid 18th century to 2005.
Sean Hanretta
Assistant Professor
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Research: West Africa, intellectual and cultural history, Islam in Africa
Countries: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal
Richard Roberts
Professor, and Director of the Center for African Studies
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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
Anne Firth Murray
Consulting Professor
Philanthropic work; background in economics, public administration, and political science. She has worked as a writer for the UN and is founding president of the Global Fund for Women Area of work: East Africa
LAW
Jonathan Greenberg
Lecturer in Law
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Research: International and civil conflict: history, dynamics, resolution
Helen Stacy
Senior Lecturer, Senior Research Scholar at Freeman Spogli Institute
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Research: Sustainable development; environmental justice; feminist legal theory; human rights
LINGUISTICS
Joan Bresnan
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita in Humanities at Stanford University
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Research: Bantu languages, Australian Aboriginal Languages, optimality theories of linguistics
John Rickford
Professor
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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
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Research: Malaria, cellular and molecular biology of parasitic protozoa
Robert Siegel
Associate Professor
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Research: Infectious Disease (HIV and malaria), International Health, Medical and Health Education
Countries: Tanzania
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Ellen Jo Baron
Professor of Pathology
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Research: Infectious diseases; microbiology; Rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases
Countries: Kenya
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: Country: Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya
David Katzenstein
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
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Research: Infectious diseases and epidemiology; Therapy and the consequences of global pandemics
Countries: Southern Africa (various countries), Zimbabwe
Yvonne Maldonado
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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Research: Infectious disease, polio, measles, epidemiology of perinatal HIV infection in infants
Mary Lake Polan
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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Research: Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Countries: Eritrea
POLITICAL SCIENCE
James Fearon
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
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Research: Civil and Interstate War, Ethnic Conflict
Terry Lynn Karl
Professor, also Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies
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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
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Research: American foreign policy; Regime change in non-democratic states; Democratization and reform in Russia; The political economy of post-communism
Jeremy Weinstein
Assistant Professor of Political Science
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Research: Civil war; democracy, ethnic politics; civil war, economic growth; political economy of development in Africa
Countries: Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya
PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
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
Visiting Senior Fellow
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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