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Advisory Board Members
Susan Ford Dorsey Director, Center for African Studies
Countries of Study:
South Africa
Research Interests:
Eswatini, History, Postcolonial Theory, Religion, Media and Marginality in Africa
Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professorship in Feminist and Gender Studies
Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and, by courtesy, of Epidemiology and Population Health, and, by courtesy, of Environmental Social Science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Countries of Study:
Kenya
Research Interests:
Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Disease, Arboviral Infections, Rift Valley Fever, Chikungunya Virus, Dengue Virus, Epidemiology
Jean G. and Morris M. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English and inaugural chair of the Department of African and African American Studies
Countries of Study:
Ghana, Nigeria
Research Interests:
Multinational, Postcolonial, and Comparative Literature, Diasporic and Transnational Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Urban Studies
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
African American Literature, Global Cold War Culture, the European Enlightenment and Its Critics, Postcolonial Theory, and Philosophical Theories of Modernity
Associate Professor
Countries of Study:
Egypt, South Africa
Research Interests:
Latin, Roman Imperial Culture, Geography, Historical Maps, Memorialization and Public History, Classical Reception
Countries of Study:
Ghana, Nigeria
Research Interests:
History of Medicine, Religion, Gender and Sexuality, Public Health, Cultural Heritage, Trans-Atlantic Networks, African Diasporas
Countries of Study:
South Africa
Research Interests:
Settler Colonial Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Historical Fiction, Nationalism, Diaspora, Migration, Temporality, Critical Geography
