Research Clusters 20th Century African American Literatures20th-century ethnic and third world literaturesaesthetics and the political;African American, African Diaspora, and Latin American artAfrican and African diasporic music and knowledge productionAfrican and South Asian literaturesAfrican Civil WarsAfrican music and transnational encountersAfrican philosophy and literatureAfrican Political ThoughtAfrican politicsAgrarian Politics in sub-Saharan Africacentering African and South Asian questions of historicity and archivesCentral AfricaCentral and Southern African languages and literatureCentral and West African art history, with a special focus on the 20th-21st centuriesClimate variability and change during the past several millennia and how past climates can help us understand future climate changeComparative Politicscomparative study of colonialism since 1452Contemporary African Politicscritical analyses of the symbolics of the human bodyCritical Theorycultural and linguistic exchange in multilingual settingsDemocracy, Autocracy, and Regime Changedemocratic developmentsDemocratic Republic of CongoDevelopment EconomicsEast AfricaEighteenth-Century French literature and cultureenergy studiesEnglish coloniesEnvironmental Economicsenvironmental humanitiesethnic politicsethnography and history of media in Nigeriaexamining connections and contradictions between the culinary creativity of cooksfeminist and colonial practicesfirst and second language acquisitionFocusing particularly on nodes of controversy where conflicting sets of beliefs and practices convergefoodways along the Swahili coastFrancophone literatureFrancophone literature of the Maghreb and Caribbeanfrancophone studiesFrench colonialism and orientalismhealth and environmentheritage politics Historical archaeology and archaeology of the contemporary pasthistories of architecture, modernity, and migrationHistories of Capitalismhistory of civil war and genocide in Africahistory of francophone West AfricaHistory of philosophyhistory of the French empire in the 19th and 20th century with a specific interest in lawHorn of AfricaHow negotiations and conflict between actors are mediated through material conditionshuman rights and narrative theoryInternational Aidintersection between politics and cultureIslam and/in EuropeIslamic philosophylanguages of Africans in the diasporaMadagascarmethodologymorpho-phonology and syntax of West-Atlantic languages such as Wolof and Pulaarmusic and genderNarratives of African Diasporanetworked infrastructures and forms of political rule, urban spaces, and cultural lifeNexus between theories of race and gender, class and postcolonialityNigeriaPan-AfricanismPeacebuildingPeacekeepingPoetics and creative writingPolitical Economypolitical economy of developmentpopular conceptualizations of poverty and wealthpost-colonial studiesPostcolonial literatures of Africa and Latin AmericaPostcolonial theory and decolonizationproblem of language and the matter of representation in South Africa and mainland southeast Asiarelationship between the image and the social imaginary and its changing historyrelationships between value and violenceReligion and Politicsreligious, social, and cultural changes induced by technologySemiotic archaeology and archaeologies of death and the bodystate power and the growing burdens of non-communicable diseasesthe Cold War and the War on Terrorthe history and theory of human rightsthe history of anthropological thought and social theorythe history of childhood in Africathe history of development work in Africathe intersection of gender with social and political organizationthe sexualization of power and desirethe study of gender and sexuality in African Historyurban historyUrban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa; Citizenship; British imperial historyUrban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa.West Africawomen in musicwomen's history
Climate variability and change during the past several millennia and how past climates can help us understand future climate change
Focusing particularly on nodes of controversy where conflicting sets of beliefs and practices converge
Urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa; Citizenship; British imperial history