Africanists: Northeast United States
Directory of prominent Africanists across the Northeast United States.
Africanists: Northeast US
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Amii Omara-Otunnu(860) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of ConnecticutHistoryStorrs, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- East Africa; military in Africa; the Nile Valley; Pan-Africanism; International Human Rights and Democracy. Africa.
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Catherine Panter-Brick(203) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityAnthropology, Health and Global AffairsNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- critical analyses of health and wellbeing across key stages of human development, giving special attention to the impact of poverty, disease, malnutrition, armed conflict, and social marginalization. She has directed large interdisciplinary projects in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, and the United Kingdom
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Daniel Magaziner(203) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityHistoryNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- 20th century Africa, South Africa
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Elisabeth Wood(203) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityPolitical ScienceNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- sexual violence during war; emergence and resolution of civil wars; collective action and social movements; transitions to democracy; the politics of Latin America and Africa
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Fiona Vernal(860) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of ConnecticutHistoryStorrs, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- Africa; 19th century South African history; Christianity in South Africa; slavery, Christianity and Missions, Gender, Slavery and the Law, Caribbean/West Indian migration
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Kamari Clarke(203) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityAnthropologyNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- issues related to religious nationalism, legal institutions, international law, the interface between culture, power and globalization, and its relationship to race and modernity. Clarke's research interests have taken her to intentional Yoruba communities in the American South, traditionalist religious and legal domains in Southwestern Nigeria, international criminal tribunals, and international law training sessions in Ireland, London, Geneva, Banjul, The United Nations and beyond.
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Lamin Sanneh(203) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityHistoryNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- African religion
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Monique Bedasse(860) [email protected] [email protected]
- School/Department
- Connecticut CollegeHistoryNew London, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- Rastafarian movement, modern Tanzania and black internationalism
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Nicoli [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityEthics, Politics, and EconomicsNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- AIDS in South Africa
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Robert Harms(203) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityHistoryNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade, Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Roderick McIntosh(203) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Yale UniversityAnthropologyNew Haven, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- later prehistory of Africa, the origin of complex societies worldwide (esp. urbanism), palaeoclimate and human response, the intellectual history of archaeology, and the suppression of the illicit international traffick in art and antiquities
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- Sally McBrearty(860) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of ConnecticutAnthropologyStorrs, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- Human evolution, particularly the origin of Homo sapiens, paleolithic archaeology, African prehistory, lithic technology, taphonomy and geoarchaeology; Africa
- Location
- Conneticut
- Name
- W. Penn Handwerker(860) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of ConnecticutAnthropologyStorrs, CT
- Area of Study / Research
- Power, culture, and social relations; evolutionary theory; culture theory; cultural evolution and social change; health transition; research methods; West Africa, West Indies, Arctic, and contemporary U.S.
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Adrienne Lucas(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeEconomicsWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- the effect of malaria on lifetime educational outcomes and contemporaneous fertility; education in sub-Saharan Africa; the effects of free primary education, the importance of secondary school inputs for educational achievement, and the effect of competition on primary schools; research contributes to the debate about the importance of disease and education for development and provides insight into the most cost-effective ways to increase health and human capital
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Ann Velenchik(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeEconomicsWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- the general area of labor markets and household behavior in Africa; migration, apprenticeship, the relationship between company size and wages and, most recently, on an interdisciplinary approach to questions of intrahousehold resource allocation; Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Zimbabwe and also done work on Senegal and Malawi
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Biodun Jeyifo(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityComparative LiteratureCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- African and Caribbean 'Anglophone' literatures; theatrical theory and dramatic literature, Western and non-Western; comparative African and Afro-American critical thought; Marxist literary and cultural theory; colonial and postcolonial studies; twentieth-century revolutionary social philosophy and literature.
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Caroline [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityHistoryCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Modern Africa; British Empire; Twentieth Century Counter-Insurgencies
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Chukwuma [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of Massachusetts, BostonAfrican StudiesBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Postcolonial African Literature in English; Transnational modernism; African oral literature and systems of thought; Igbo literature and traditional thought; African writing systems
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Dave [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brandeis UniversityAnthropologyWaltham, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Social anthropology. Urban social organization. Psychosocial transitions. Families and households. Computer-mediated communication. United States. Africa.
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- David Lindauer(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeEconomicsWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- labor issues including labor relations in Korea; racial affirmative action in Malaysia; worker productivity in Ethiopia; minimum wage policy in the Philippines; and government pay and employment in Zambia
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- David [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityMusicMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Traditional African Music and Dance; Performing Arts and Culture; Intercultural Arts Pedagogy
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- David Newbury(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Smith CollegeHistoryNorthampton, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Historiography of Africa, kingship and kinship on Ijwi Island, and the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Davidson Hamer(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityCenter for Global Health and DevelopmentBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- maternal, neonatal and child health; malaria in pregnancy; malaria case management; interventions to address micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Devyn Spence [email protected]
- School/Department
- Williams CollegeHistoryWilliamstown, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Latin American history, Caribbean history, Cuba, African Diaspora studies,Global history
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Donna Patterson(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeAfricana StudiesWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Africa and the African Diaspora with interests in health policy, gender, medical professionalization, and entrepreneurship; how academics interrogate African women's access to property but also Africa's role in global health policy
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Dorothy E. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Mt. Holyoke CollegeSpanish and Latin American StudiesAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Afro-Hispanic literature and culture; Caribbean and African diaspora literature
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Dyan Mazurana(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityNutrition Science and PolicyMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Focused primarily on the Greater North of Uganda, research on serious crimes and violations and their effects, victims rights, needs and priorities for accountability, remedy and reparation, memorialization and the treatment of the dead, enforced disappearance, child soldiers and abductions
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Elizabeth [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityHistoryMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Modern France, France in the World, Colonial West Africa, Religion and Empire
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Elizabeth Hopkins(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Smith CollegeAnthropologyNorthampton, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- the political field which engaged African, administrator and missionary in a complex contest for local administrative control, cultural hegemony, and continuing autonomy; the mountainous border areas of southwestern Uganda, Rwanda and the Congo
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Elliot Fratkin(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Smith CollegeAnthropologyNorthampton, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- life and social change among nomadic pastoralists people who live and move with their domestic livestock and who are found largely in the arid regions of the world; Ariaal pastoralists of northern Kenya
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Emmanuel [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityHistoryCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- ecology, social history, cultural history, disease and medicine, the African diaspora, political economy and trade, West African History, comparative slavery, social and cultural history
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Enoch H. PageNo contact information could be found; called dept. office and no [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of Massachusetts, AmherstAnthropologyAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- African and African diaspora: racial intersection between black populations and bureaucracies like schools, the media, hospitals or extension agencies
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Fallou [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityAnthropologyBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Sociolinguistics, Culture & Language Contacts, Islam and Mouridisme (Muridiyya), and West African Ajami literary traditions, Interaction between African languages and non-African languages and Ajami literatures in West Africa
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Filomina Steady(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeAfricana StudiesWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Studies of global gender systems and hierarchies; Africa and African Diaspora; social and environmental justice; international consulting; the intersection of gender, race, and socially-constructed categories and continuing effects of the legacy of colonialism through corporate globalization and international financial institutions; women and leadership in West Africa
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Frank F. Taylor(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston CollegeHistoryChestnut Hill, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Economic, social, political, and diplomatic history of the Caribbean; history of the African diaspora; Black social and political thought
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Gregory White(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Smith CollegeGovernmentNorthampton, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Moroccan politics, environmental politics, and international security
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Holly [email protected]
- School/Department
- Mt. Holyoke CollegeHistoryAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Agrarian change in Africa, social history of the Buganda kingdom, precolonial African political culture, globalization as a historical process
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Hugh Roberts(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityHistoryMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- North Africa, Middle East
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Jacob Olupona(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityHarvard Divinity SchoolCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- the religious practices of the estimated one million Africans who have emigrated to the United States over the last 40 years, examining in particular several populations that remain relatively invisible in the American religious landscape: "reverse missionaries" who have come to the U.S. to establish churches, African Pentecostals in American congregations, American branches of independent African churches, and indigenous African religious communities in the U.S.
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- James C. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityHistoryBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- African history, environmental history, agricultural history, the agro-ecology of tropical disease, food history, Ethiopia and East Africa
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Jane A. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brandeis UniversityFrench and Comparative LiteratureWaltham, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- French, education, and comparative literature. Contemporary French fiction and drama. Samuel Beckett, Raymond Queneau. Literature and painting. Francophone literature and culture of Africa and Haiti. Cross-cultural literacies
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Janet [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brandeis UniversityAnthropologyWaltham, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- East Africa, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnicity, Psychological Anthropology, Post-Coloniality
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Jean Comaroff(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityAnthropologyCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- southern Africa, processes of social and cultural transformation the making and unmaking of colonial society, the nature of the postcolony, the late modern world viewed from the Global South
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Jeanne Marie [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityHistoryMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- African History, Mozambique and Southern Africa, Comparative Women's History, Urbanization and Labor Migration
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Jenny C. Aker(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityEconomicsMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Information Technology and development in Africa; shocks and markets in Africa, primarily West Africa
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Joanna [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityAnthropologyBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Political ecology; rurality and agrarian societies; cultural conceptions of knowledge; critical international studies; anthropological engagements with development theory and practice; social and religious transformation; inter-ethnic relations and ethnic conflict; African Studies
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- John Comaroff(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityAnthropologyCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- current research in South Africa is on crime, policing, and the workings of the state, on democracy and difference, and on postcolonial politics
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- John Higginson(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of Massachusetts, AmherstHistoryAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Agriculture & Industry in S. Africa and U.S. South
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- John [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityHistoryBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- the history of West Central Africa, especially the Kingdom of Kongo, before 1850, General precolonial history of Atlantic Africa (including West Africa), Social, religious, and military history of pre colonial Africa, The history of the African Diaspora before 1800, The Slave trade
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Joye Bowman(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of Massachusetts, AmherstHistoryAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Africa, especially Portuguese Africa, political, economic
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Katherine A. Luongo(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Northeastern UniversityHistoryBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- legal systems in colonial and contemporary Africa and global legal regimes. She is particularly interested in the intersections of the supernatural, law, and politics in Africa and in the interactions of African witchcraft and forced migration
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Kathryn [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityArchaeologyBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Late prehistory of Egypt; the origins of complex societies and early states in northeast Africa: Egypt, Nubia, and northern Ethiopia/Eritrea; the Red Sea trading network in the Bronze Age; Iron Ages.
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Kehinde F. Ajayi(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityEconomicsBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Economics of education, school choice, socio-economic inequality, human capital investments and labor markets in low-income settings
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Kenda [email protected]
- School/Department
- Williams CollegeHistoryWilliamstown, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Modern Africa, East Africa, Transport Culture, Urban History
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Lidwien Kapteinjs(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeHistoryWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- changing Somali self-understandings, self-expressions, and cultural norms at three moments of history: the nationalist moment during which a national culture was actively fashioned (1960-1991); the sectarian moment of civil strife and clan violence (1991-present); and the moment of diasporic reconstruction, in which Islam and Islamism have gained prominence (1991-present)
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Linda [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityHistoryBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- nineteenth- and twentieth-century African history, the history of the African Diaspora
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Martin Summers(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston CollegeHistoryChestnut Hill, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- African-American intellectual and cultural history; gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; race and mental Illness; African diaspora
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Michael Kremer(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityGovernmentCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- work on the evaluation of health and educational programs in developing countries; incentives for research and development on malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and other diseases affecting developing countries; and sovereign debt
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Michael [email protected]
- School/Department
- Williams CollegePolitical ScienceWilliamstown, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- South African politics, race and ethnicity
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Mitzi Goheen(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Amherst CollegeChair of Black StudiesAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- West Africa, emphasis on Cameroon; youth, gender
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Modhumita Roy(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityEnglishMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Anglophone literatures of Africa and the Africa Diaspora, literatures of empire, post-colonial theory
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Ngonidzashe [email protected]
- School/Department
- Williams CollegePolitical ScienceWilliamstown, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Comparative African politics, drought and famine relief, executive succession
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Nikki A. Greene(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeArt and Africana StudiesWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Art historian examining African American and African identities, the body, feminism, and music in twentieth-century and contemporary art
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Nina [email protected]
- School/Department
- Northeastern UniversityAnthropologyBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Urban Anthropology; consumerism and materiality; value, postcoloniality and neoliberalism; gender and globalization; West Africa (Togo)
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Odile Cazenave(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityFrenchBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- postcolonial literature in French; films; diasporic writing
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Olabode [email protected]
- School/Department
- Mt. Holyoke CollegeMusicAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- African music, with emphasis on Nigerian and Yoruba traditions. His work has explored indigenous and modern musical traditions, and addressed themes like performance practices; music, identity and social dynamics; music and politics; and intercultural aesthetics
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Parker [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityAnthropologyBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Social anthropology, economic and symbolic anthropology, kinship, history of theory, development; East and West Africa
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Pashington Obeng(781) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wellesley CollegeAfricana StudiesWellesley, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Indian Ocean & Transatlantic African Diaspora studies, Anthropology of religion in continental Africa & New World Afro-Atlantic areas, cultural communication focusing on Black filmic representations; the cosmologies and life ways of African Indians of Karmataka in South India
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Pearl T. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityPolitical ScienceMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Comparative African politics
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Peter Probst(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityArt and Art HistoryMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Art of West and Southern Africa; African and diasporic visual culture; public art and national culture; memory and monuments; and the Anthropology of Art
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Ralph Faulkingham(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of Massachusetts, AmherstAnthropologyAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- cultural anthropology with interests in theories of rural development, especially in Hausa-speaking Niger in West Africa; local level politics, cultural ecology, political economy, ethnography of local discourses about love, life, and death
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Robert H. Bates(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Harvard UniversityGovernmentCambridge, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- political economy of development, particularly in Africa, and on violence and state failure
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Robert [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityPolitical ScienceBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- International relations of the developing world, post-colonial African politics
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Rosalind [email protected]
- School/Department
- Tufts UniversityAnthropologyMedford, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Transitional justice; the anthropology of mass violence and social recovery; child and youth combatants; culture and reconciliation; social memory; the Atlantic slave trade; ritual and religion; West Africa; Sierra Leone
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Ruha [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversitySociologyBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- science, medicine, race, caste, South Africa, African diaspora in India & Mexico
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Samba [email protected]
- School/Department
- Mt. Holyoke CollegeFrenchAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- French-speaking Africa; African cinema
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Sarah Hardin (Visiting)(413) 585-3015---
- School/Department
- Smith CollegeHistoryNorthampton, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- the political-economy of agricultural development in Senegal (West Africa) in the twentieth century, particularly the impacts of DDT and other pesticides used in cotton cultivation on public health and on social relations
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Seamus Decker(404) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of Massachusetts, AmherstAnthropologyAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- social biology, psychoneuroendocrinology, behavioral ecology, disease ecology; Caribbean, North America and Sub-Sahara Africa.
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Shanti M. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Williams CollegeHistoryWilliamstown, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Muslims & Africans in Europe; Black France & Diaspora Studies; Racism and the Enlightenment; the French and Haitian Revolutions
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Taryn Vian(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversitySchool of Public HealthBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- corruption in the health sector; transparency and accountability; health policy; per diems, salaries, and motivation of health workers; financial management and budget reform in Lesotho. Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Cameroon. Experience working in DRC, Senegal, Niger, Nigeria, Kenya, Lesotho, Uganda, Zambia
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Valentine M. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Northeastern UniversitySociologyBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Globalization; transnational feminist networks; sociology of gender; social movements; the Middle East and North Africa
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Whitney Battle-Baptiste(413) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of Massachusetts, AmherstAnthropologyAmherst, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- African Diaspora theory, Black Feminist Theory, African American expressive and material culture, Historical Archaeology, African Diaspora archaeology, North America
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- William J. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston UniversityInternational Health and MedicineBoston, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- the organization, delivery, and financing of health care; health care policy; international health; public health, under and post graduate medical education; health and social services for the elderly; bioterrorism and emergency preparedness; reality-based prevention; public-private sector interactions and the donor process as it relates to lower income countries
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Name
- Zachary Morgan(617) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Boston CollegeHistoryChestnut Hill, MA
- Area of Study / Research
- Brazilian history; modern Latin America; African diaspora/Atlantic world
- Location
- New Hampshire/ Maine
- Name
- George R. Trumbull(603) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Dartmouth CollegeHistoryHanover, NH
- Area of Study / Research
- intersection of African and Middle Eastern Studies
- Location
- New Hampshire/ Maine
- Name
- Naaborko Sackeyfio(603) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Dartmouth CollegeHistoryHanover, NH
- Area of Study / Research
- West African history; chieftaincy and land politics among the Ga ethnic group in colonial and post-colonial Ghana; ways in which disputes over political transitions to power in colonial Accra reveals a dynamic landscape surrounding Ga identity, power, and the past through the idiom of ownership and alienation of land
- Location
- New Hampshire/ Maine
- Name
- Stephen Miller(207) [email protected]
- School/Department
- University of MaineHistoryOrono, ME
- Area of Study / Research
- late Victorian cultural assumptions which effected British decision-making leading up to the South African War, the tactics employed on the battlefield, and soldiers' interactions with combatants and non-combatants off the battlefield
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Abdellah Hammoudi(609) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityAnthropologyPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- colonialism, symbols of power, French ethnographic theory, history and anthropology, Islam, Middle East, North Africa
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Akinbiyi [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityLinguisticsNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- West African Linguistics, especially of Benue-Congo languages.
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Alamin [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAfrican, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL)New Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Political Sociology of Language in Africa and the African Diaspora; African literature in English and Swahili; Politics of cultural production in East Africa; Cultural discourses on human rights in Africa; Islam and Identity in Africa and the African Diaspora
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Allan Charles Dawson(973) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Drew UniversityAnthropologyMadison, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- ethnicity and identity in West Africa and in the African Diaspora; ethnicity and globalization; identity and violence; religious innovation; chieftaincy; and traditional religious practice in the West African Sahel
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Allen Howard(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityHistoryNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- upper Guinea coast area of West Africa and topically on ethnicity, commerce, and urban social life. He has written extensively on the application of spatial analysis to African history
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Angelique Haugerud(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAnthropologyNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Globalization, cultural politics, economic neoliberalism, satirical political activism, political and economic anthropology, democracy, social movements, politics of development, land tenure, political ecology, research methods; Africa, US
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Barbara Callaway732-932-1916 and/or [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityPolitical ScienceNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- African Politics, Women and Politics
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Barbara Cooper(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityHistoryNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- female labor and slavery, gift exchange as social discourse, oral genres and the oral re-performance of pilgrimage, movement and the construction of gender, and the negotiation of a shifting political economy through the re-definition of marriage.book on the history of a minority Evangelical Protestant community in majority Muslim Niger that engages with the history of U.S. interventions in Africa, the problem of religious violence, the relationships between religion, secularism, and modernity, and the construction of gender in Christianity and Islam, history of discourses of motherhood and of debates about fertility in the francophone Sahel
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Barbara Lewis(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityPolitical ScienceNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- In the Cote d'Ivoire: occupational, ethnic and religious identities among truckers; credit needs and cooperative efforts among market women; fertility, employment and status among urban women, the politics of agricultural planning and policy implementation in underdeveloped countries, including field work on the impact of government policies on food and export crop production in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Mali
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Carolyn [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityHistoryNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- West African labor and social history
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Carolyn Rouse(609) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityAnthropologyPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- development, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, resistance, critical race theory, consciousness, North America, Ghana
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Cati Coe(856) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversitySociology, Anthropology, and Criminal JusticeCamden, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Anthropology of childhood, education and schooling, politics of culture and representation, nationalism, transnationalism, migration, kinship, emotion, reciprocity
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- David Hughes(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityHuman EcologyNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Environmental anthropology, race, whiteness, landscape, conservation, oil, climate change, the Caribbean; Southern Africa
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Dorothy L. Hodgson(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAnthropologyNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Feminist anthropology, political and legal anthropology, historical anthropology, cultural politics, gender, ethnicity, colonialism, development, missionization, indigenous rights, pastoralism, transnationalism, social movements, ethics and politics of research; Africa
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Dr. Ousseina [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAfrican, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL)New Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- women's discourses and literacy practices in Afro-Islamic societies; African women's agency; African women's literatures; Gendered discourses of identity and the politics of cultural production in Francophone African countries
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Emmanuel [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityHistoryPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- how violence (including, for example, colonial conquest, the apartheid wars, slave raiding) and ensuing forced migration led to the destruction of human landscapes and how people rebuild lives and livelihoods in often alien environments
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Evan S. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityPolitics and International AffairsPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- the relationship between institutions, patterns of political competition, and human development, with a particular focus on identity (racial, ethnic, nationalist) politics. Most of his research and teaching focus on the politics and development of Southern Africa, but his work routinely employs comparative analyses with developing countries in other parts of Africa
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Genese [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAnthropologyNewark, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Political ecology; conservation; international development; colonialism and postcolonialism; human-animal relations; extinction events; Madagascar; Africa
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Jennifer [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityPolitics and International AffairsPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- problems of democratization, law,and development, with special attention to sub-Saharan Africa
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Julie Livingston(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityHistoryNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Botswana, ethical entanglements engendered by bodily vulnerability in conditions of scarce resources
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Laura Belcher(609) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityEnglishPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- circulation of African thought in Europe and England before the 19th century, African Literature
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Lee Cronk(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAnthropologyNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Human evolutionary ecology, including behavioral ecology, cultural ecology, and cognitive ecology; signaling theory; culture; cooperation; Africa, Caribbean
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Mariana [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityHistoryPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- West Central Africa during the era of the transatlantic slave trade, history of slavery; forced migration and labor; the South Atlantic world; and the African diaspora
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Philip M. PeekProf. Emeritus status; phone number not found on [email protected]
- School/Department
- Drew UniversityAnthropologyMadison, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Folklore; African religion; African art; Divination; Psychological anthropology; Visual and Verbal Arts of West Africa (especially Nigeria)
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Richard [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityGeographyPiscataway, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- political ecology, environmental justice, africa, uneven development, social geography, economic geography, cultural geography, race, gender, nationality, wildlife conservation, mining, forestry, agriculture
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Robert [email protected]
- School/Department
- Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityHistoryMadison, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- looks at the way the Zulu naturalized Christianity, which speaks to his wider research and teaching interests--the way Africans and other colonized peoples interact with their colonizers
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Robert [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityHistoryPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- involved in the Departments efforts to expand its teaching and research beyond Europe and North America, having introduced the first departmental courses in African and world history
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Samah Selim(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAfrican, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL)Piscataway, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- modern Arabic Literature (19th/20th century) in Egypt and the Levant, with a particular interest in narrative genres like the novel and short story; comparative theories of fiction, and cultural discourses on modernity and the politics of translation practice in colonial and postcolonial contexts
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Sarah Brett-Smith732-932-0122 Ext. [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityArt HistoryNew Brunswick, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Bamana (Bambara) sculpture: gender and art making, the symbolism of Bamana, Dogon, Malinke, Minianka, Senufo and Bobo textiles, Surrealism and "primitive" art.
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- V. Kofi [email protected]
- School/Department
- Princeton UniversityMusicPrinceton, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- Research on music analysis and West African music
- Location
- New Jersey
- Name
- Walton R. Johnson(732) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Rutgers UniversityAfricana StudiesPiscataway, NJ
- Area of Study / Research
- southern Africa and he has published on religion and social change
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Abena [email protected]
- School/Department
- Wagner CollegeHistoryStaten Island, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African history, focusing on nationalism and international human rights
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Adeolu Ademoyo(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityASRC at CornellIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African Philosophy: Ethics, Epistemology and Aesthetics. The locus of African Languages in delineating met-ethical concepts in African moral discourse, gender issues; family and social structures
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Akbar [email protected]
- School/Department
- Binghamton UniversityHistoryVestal, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African history, Islam in Africa, slavery in Muslim Africa, Muslims in the United States, and integration in Nigeria through the use of education
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Amir [email protected]
- School/Department
- Fordham UniversityHistory, Political ScienceNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- History and politics of colonialism, on slavery and race, and on postcolonial citizenship in Northeast and Central Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Anne C. Bailey(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Binghamton UniversityHistoryVestal, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- the history of the Atlantic slave trade and its impact on Africa and its worldwide diaspora
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Anne Rice(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Lehman CollegeAfrican and African American StudiesBronx, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African American literature, U.S. modernism, representations of lynching in U.S. literature, diaspora studies, migration narratives, autobiography, postcolonial theory
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Anthony [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY HunterSociologyNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Black Diasporic communities with a focus on community organizations, social movements, racial inequality, Africana sociology, and popular culture (particularly hip-hop)
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Antina von Schitzler212.229.5400 [email protected]
- School/Department
- The New SchoolInternational RelationsNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- citizenship and political subjectivities, cities and urban infrastructures, liberalism and neoliberalism, colonialism and post-colonialism and South Africa, water provision in Johannesburg focusing in particular on a controversial water infrastructure project in Soweto, citizenship, protest and neoliberal reforms in post-apartheid South Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Awam Amkpa212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityAfricana StudiesNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African diasporic drama and film; transnationalism, postcolonial theory
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Lehman CollegeAfrican and African American StudiesBronx, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- gender and women's studies; African cultural studies, with a focus on African oral traditions, African languages and linguistics; translation studies; French and Francophone/Diaspora studies, women's human rights; gender construction in language and society; African women's verbal art and knowledge production; women's movements: from local organizing to global networking for social change
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Carina Ray(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Fordham UniversityHistoryNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Modern African History and is particularly interested in the racial and sexual politics of colonial rule; the comparative histories of race mixture in Africa and the African Diaspora; the African Diaspora and reverse migration; and the relationship between race, ethnicity, and political power in post-independence Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Carole Boyce Davies(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityEnglishIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African Diaspora Studies; Black Women's Writing (internationally); Comparative Black Literature; African Literature; Caribbean Oral and Written Literature; Transnational Femnist Theory
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Cheryl Mwaria(516) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Hofstra UniversityAnthropologyHempstead, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Clyde Taylor212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityGallatinNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Politics of representation; vernacular modernisms; cinema and society; African American and African literature; cultural symbolism; African diaspora film and literature; cultural criticism; modernism and aesthetics
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Dagmawi Woubshet(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityEnglishIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African American, comparative African Diaspora, and contemporary American literature and culture
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Donald RobothamNo contact information could be found; called dept. office and had an answering [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY Graduate CenterAnthropologyNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- issues of Development in both the Caribbean and Ghana, in particular, the difficulties which Developing Countries face during a period of advanced capitalist globalization. Issues of race, ethnicity, class, alternative modernities, immigration and how to overcome these divisions and unite people, preoccupy him
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Ed Guerrero212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversitySCA/Cinema StudiesNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Black cinema, black stardom & celebrity; Africa, Asia in cinema; science fiction & horror cinema, utopia/dystopia; mapping the Black Pacific; interrogations of the representational burden of race and difference
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Ehiedu E.G. [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY HunterHistoryNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- contemporary African economic history, with special emphasis on innovative endogenous responses to economic crises, technological development, the growth of autocentric perspectives and practices among Nigerian intelligentsia and entrepreneurs and the emergence of new economic sub-sectors and of a new dialectical economic environment in Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Elvis O. AlvesNo contact information could be found; called dept. office and had an answering [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY John Jay CollegePhilosophy and ReligionNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- critical exploration of religious beliefs and practices of the African Diaspora and how these aspects are lived/displayed in urban settings (i.e. in America and the Caribbean)
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Fawzia [email protected]
- School/Department
- Fordham UniversityEnglishNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African literatures, other postcolonial literatures, and minority discourses of the US
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Frederick [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityHistoryNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Modern Africa; empires in world history; colonization and decolonization; the social sciences and the colonial situation
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Grant Farred(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityEnglishIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- post-apartheid South African democracy, post-colonial theory
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Harvey Sindima315 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Colgate UniversityReligionHamilton, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African philosophy and religions, philosophical hermeneutics, ethics, theology (methodology), African Christianity, philosphical hermeneutics, African philosophy, theology, religion
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Hildi Hendrickson(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Long Island UniversitySociology, AnthropologyBrooklyn, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Small-Scale Societies, Clothing Cross-Culturally, African Cultures, Material Culture, Ritual and Spirituality
- Location
- New York
- Name
- James [email protected]
- School/Department
- Binghamton UniversityMusic (Ethnomusicology)Vestal, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- traditional music from Africa the diaspora
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Janet [email protected]
- School/Department
- The New SchoolAnthropologyNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Central Africa (focusing specifically on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria, the Central African Republic and Chad) - political economy, the anthropology of value, economization, and emergent forms of the political
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Jennifer Johnson Onyedum(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Lehman CollegeAfrican and African American StudiesBronx, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- contemporary African history, with a particular interest in North Africa, decolonization, and humanitarianism
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Jonathan Haynes(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Long Island UniversityEnglishBrooklyn, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African Studies; African Film, Video and Literature; English Renaissance Literature
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Joseph McLaren(516) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Hofstra UniversityEnglishHempstead, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African, Caribbean, and African American literature
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Judith A. Byfield(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityHistoryIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- women's social and economic history in Nigeria
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Kimberly F. Jones-de(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Long Island UniversityHistoryBrooklyn, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African Presence in Latin America, Race Relations in Brazil
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Konrad TuchschererNo contact information could be found; called dept. office and had an answering machine
- School/Department
- St. John's UniversityHistoryQueens, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- nineteenth and twentieth century West Africa, colonialism in Africa, and Gullah history in South Carolina and Georgia
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Kwasi Konadu212-220-1370 Ext: [email protected]
- School/Department
- Borough of Manhattan Community CollegeCenter for Ethnic StudiesNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African and African Diaspora Studies: Ghana/Akan History, Cultural History, Nationalism, and Indigenous Knowledge
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Leith Mullings212 817 [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY Graduate CenterAnthropologyNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Globalization, urbanism, medical anthropology, gender, race, ethnicity, social movements; United States urban populations, Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Locksley Edmondson(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityASRC at CornellIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African and Caribbean politics; international relations
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Louis Parascandola(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Long Island UniversityEnglishBrooklyn, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- 19th-Century English Literature; Italian-American Culture; Literature of the African Diaspora, including Anglophone Caribbean Literature
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Lynda R. [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY Brooklyn CollegeAfricana StudiesBrooklyn, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- women in the pre-colonial political systems of Sierra Leone and Ghana
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Manthia Diawara212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityComparative LiteratureNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Black American film, literary and cultural studies, black film in Africa and Europe.
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Martin [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY York CollegeHistory and PhilosophyJamaica, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African History, the relationship between West Africa and Europe in (19th-20th centuries), the Franco-Cameroonian relations (19th-20th centuries)
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Mary Moran315 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Colgate UniversitySociology and AnthropologyHamilton, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Liberia, West Africa and general African ethnography and development, political anthropology, symbolic anthropology, gender and women's studies, cultural constructions of gender, African women, ethnicity and nationalism, nationalist violence / Liberia, Nigeria
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Michael Gomez212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityHistoryNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African diaspora; Islam in West Africa; Slavery
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Michael O. West(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Binghamton UniversitySociologyVestal, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- interconnections and inter-relationships between the liberatory struggles of African peoples worldwide, class formation in southern Africa, black transatlantic connections, and the emergence of African studies
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Michael Ralph212 992 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityMetropolitan Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American StudiesNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Citizenship, Sovereignty, Risk, Liability, Urban Youth Culture, Diaspora, Postcolonialism
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Miriam Ticktin212-229-5757 [email protected]
- School/Department
- The New SchoolAnthropologyNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- anthropology of the human and humanitarianism; migration, camps and borders; sexual violence/violence against women; PTSD/trauma, psychiatric humanitarianism; anthropology of science, medicine, ethics; France/Europe/North Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Mohamed Mbodj(914) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Manhattanville CollegeHistoryPurchase, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African civilizations, history of Senegambia, history of West Africa, economic and social history of Africa, African Diaspora, the relations between France and Algeria, historical demography, historical roots of democracy and democratization in Africa, Islam in African history, slavery, and African-American history
- Location
- New York
- Name
- N'dri Assie-Lumumba(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityASRC (Africana Studies and Research Center) at CornellIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Higher education; information and communication technologies; educational innovations; human resource development; education finance; equality of educational opportunity; gender and education; family and social institutions/structures; African history with a focus on the European expansion and the colonial and contemporary periods
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Nicolas van de(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityGovernmentIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa; on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Oneka [email protected]
- School/Department
- Fordham UniversityWomen's Studies, Sociology, AnthropologyNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African Diasporic identities, popular youth culture, and West Indian migration
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversitySociologyIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- (1) the sociology of education, (2) social change, and (3) the demography of inequality. This research focuses on the socioeconomic consequences of demographic transitions in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically on schooling, gender inequality, and socioeconomic inequality.
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Patricia-Pia Celerier(845) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Vassar CollegeFrench and Francophone StudiesPoughkeepsie, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- French-speaking African Literatures and Cultures
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Philip Misevich(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- St. John's UniversityHistoryQueens, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Slave trade and the development of the Atlantic World, coerced migration of Africans across the 19th-century world
- Location
- New York
- Name
- R. Bentley [email protected]
- School/Department
- Fordham UniversityAfrican and African American StudiesNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Race and religion in the southern United States and South Africa in the post-World War II period, Trans-Atlantic race relations, South African history, and Religion & Civil Rights in the United States
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Renee Blake212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityLinguisticsNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Urban sociolinguistics; African American Vernacular English; languages and cultures of the Caribbean
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Richard Hull212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityHistoryNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Democratization in Africa; origins of segregation in South Africa.
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Robert Buckley(202) [email protected]
- School/Department
- The New SchoolInternational RelationsNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- urban development in Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Ronald Kassimir212-229-8947 [email protected]
- School/Department
- The New SchoolPolitical ScienceNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Transnationalism, global-local networks of power, government and representation
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Rosalind Fredricks(212) [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityGallatinNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- the political economy of development, global urbanism and postcolonial identities in Africa, African cities, youth studies, Islam, critical development studies, feminist geography and political ecology
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Salah Hassan(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityHistory of Art and CultureIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- African and African-American art and Visual Culture, Contemporary Art and Theory
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Sandra E. Greene(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityHistoryIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- West Africa and more specifically the social and cultural history of Ghana from the height of the Atlantic slave trade (in the 18th century) through the early colonial period (up to World War Two); changes in gender and ethnic relations, African belief systems and the history of slavery.
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Sarah Mkhonza(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityASRC at Cornell (Guest Lecturer)Ithaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- poems and stories tell of violence against women and other injustices in her native country, Swaziland, the southeast African nation that is one of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies.
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Sean Jacobs(212) [email protected]
- School/Department
- The New SchoolPolitical ScienceNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- intersection of mass media, globalization and liberal democracy in postapartheid South Africa
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Stacey Langwick(607) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Cornell UniversityASRC at CornellIthaca, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- anthropology of medicine; healing and the body; postcolonial science studies; African ethnography; the anthropology of knowledge/materiality; and cultural and feminist theory.
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Tatiana Carayannis(212) 377-2700 [email protected]
- School/Department
- SSRC--Brooklyn, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- The relationship between West Africa and Europe in (19th-20th centuries)
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Teresa [email protected]
- School/Department
- CUNY John Jay CollegeAfricana StudiesNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- The Sudan, international organizations, peace keeping, delivery of humanitarian aid, and transnational behavior (including crime and crime prevention)
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Thomas O. Beidelman212 998 [email protected]
- School/Department
- New York UniversityAnthropologyNew York, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Social anthropology, Africa, religion and symbolism, witchcraft and magic, history of colonialism, Christian missionaries, African literature, urban neighborhood and landscape preservation movements, history of British and European anthropology and sociology
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Tsega Etefa315 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Colgate UniversityHistoryHamilton, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Ethnic relations, conflict/peace religious research, African history and culture
- Location
- New York
- Name
- Yusuf Juwayeyi(718) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Long Island UniversityAnthropologyBrooklyn, NY
- Area of Study / Research
- Later Stone Age and Iron Age archaeology; African Cultures and Civilizations, and traditional economies
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Anani Dzidzienyo(401) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAfricana StudiesProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- specializes in the study of race in Latin America and the encounters between Latin Americans and Africans, as well as on the life and work of George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Anthony Bogues401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAfricana StudiesProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- intellectual and cultural history, radical political thought, critical theory, Caribbean and African politics and literature
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Corey D. B.401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAfricana StudiesProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- Africana philosophy, theories and methods of Africana Studies, African American religious thought, critical theory, and religion and public life; the historical, philosophical, and theological problems of modern thought and political practice
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Daniel Jordan Smith(401) [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAnthropologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- medical anthropology, anthropological demography, and political anthropology in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Nigeria. His research in medical and demographic anthropology includes work on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and behavior, adolescent sexuality, marriage, kinship, and rural-urban migration. His work on political culture in Nigeria includes studies of patron-clientism, Pentecostal Christianity, vigilantism, and corruption
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- David [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversitySociologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- the social and demographic determinants of fertility, and the influence of the social and cultural context on early life course transitions in Ethiopia
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- James P. Allen401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityEgyptology & Ancient Western Asian StudiesProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- ancient Egyptian grammar and literature, religion, and history
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Jonathan Conant401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityHistoryProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- the inter-regional integration of the Mediterranean, and he has a special interest in questions of identity, empire, interfaith interaction, sanctity, slavery, and documentary culture; Romanness in North Africa between the Vandal and Islamic conquests (c. 439-700)
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Leo Depudyt401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityEgyptologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- Coptic manuscripts; the grammar of all stages of Egyptian; the history of the Egyptian language; language and logic; the digitalization of rational thought and language; chronology, calendrics, astronomy, and heortology; ancient science and mathematics; and probability theory
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Lina Fruzzetti401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAnthropologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- Social anthropology, kinship, politics, study of ritual and the construction of gender, development and political studies, race and ethnic relations, Islamic societies and notions of identity, ethnographic film; feminist movement in Africa and Asia, study of ritual and kinship, construction of gender and identity, nationalism and post-colonial identity (India and Africa)
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Lundy [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityPathology and Laboratory MedicineProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- 1) the history of global exchanges of knowledge about race, science, and medical technologies in the 19th and 20th centuries; 2) the socio-political and economic production of invisibility of asbestos-related diseases in South Africa; and 3) the contemporary debate over race, genomics, and health inequality
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Marida Hollos401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAnthropologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- the examination of the lives of infertile women their difficulties and coping mechanisms in a Nigerian community; and a study of the conceptualization of children by families of different social groups in post-socialist Hungary
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Melani Cammett401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityPolitical ScienceProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- comparative politics and political economy (development, social welfare, institutional change, business-government relations), methodology (research design and qualitative methods), and Middle Eastern and North African politics
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Michael [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversitySociologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- areas of interest span demography and urban sociology with a particular interest in topics pertinent to public policy, such as US immigration policy, and the implications of migration for health in developing countries; concerned with population distribution and migration: processes of movement, settlement, and adjustment; urbanization in China and Vietnam; urban growth, health and environmental change in Africa; and international migration to high income countries
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Nancy [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityHistoryProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- examines intersections between African and European birders and how local African, scientific, and colonial forces structured these relationships; identifies the aspirations and affective ties that drew birders to seek expertise and status through their collaboration
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Newell [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityPolitical ScienceProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- comparative politics, specializing in South Africa; South African domestic politics and the apartheid issue at the United Nations
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Nicholas Townsend401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAnthropologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- the relationships and roles of men in families in the United States and in Southern Africa; the social organization of domestic lives in a comparative perspective; and the cultural meanings and social organization relevant to social reproduction and cultural continuity
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Paget Henry401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversitySociologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- economic and political problems of the Caribbean; Caribbean thinkers and critical theorists; the role of culture and the process of development in both the Caribbean and Africa
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Philip Leis401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAnthropologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- the anthropology of identity and the identity of anthropology in Africa (Nigeria, Cameroun, and Zimbabwe), in village and urban contexts. how ethnic identity among the Ijo developed in an isolated, relatively culturally homogeneous, self-sufficient society that became severely impinged upon by a multi-ethnic nation and global economic prerequisites of oil exports (Nigera); the setting shifts to a plural community within a plural state, and the emphasis is on formulating and retaining an identity as a minority ethnic group (Cameroun); how participation in voluntary associations and other non-governmental organizations contribute to the formation of a national identity (Zimbabwe); the delineation of crises in the discipline's history that reflect shifts in theoretical orientation, in addition to prompting them
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Rebecca Molholt401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityArt and Art HistoryProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- the medium-specific talents of floor mosaics from Roman North Africa, and the many ways they prompt viewers to think on their feet
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Stephen McGarvey401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityEpidemiologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- concerned with issues of human population biology and international health, specifically modernization-related induced socio-economic and behavioral changes, gene by environment interactions on cardiovascular disease risk factors, tropical parasitology and child nutritional status and health, and environmental issues. His research involves developing-world countries such as Samoa, the Philippines, South Africa and Ghana
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Name
- Williams Simmons401 863 [email protected]
- School/Department
- Brown UniversityAnthropologyProvidence, RI
- Area of Study / Research
- social/cultural anthropology, religion, myth, and ritual focusing on West Africa and Native America