Research Clusters 20th Century African American Literatures 20th-century ethnic and third world literatures aesthetics and the political; African American, African Diaspora, and Latin American art African and African diasporic music and knowledge production African and South Asian literatures African Civil Wars African music and transnational encounters African philosophy and literature African Political Thought African politics Agrarian Politics in sub-Saharan Africa centering African and South Asian questions of historicity and archives Central Africa Central and Southern African languages and literature Central and West African art history, with a special focus on the 20th-21st centuries Climate variability and change during the past several millennia and how past climates can help us understand future climate change Comparative Politics comparative study of colonialism since 1452 Contemporary African Politics critical analyses of the symbolics of the human body Critical Theory cultural and linguistic exchange in multilingual settings Democracy, Autocracy, and Regime Change democratic developments Democratic Republic of Congo Development Economics East Africa Eighteenth-Century French literature and culture energy studies English colonies Environmental Economics environmental humanities ethnic politics ethnography and history of media in Nigeria examining connections and contradictions between the culinary creativity of cooks feminist and colonial practices first and second language acquisition Focusing particularly on nodes of controversy where conflicting sets of beliefs and practices converge foodways along the Swahili coast Francophone literature Francophone literature of the Maghreb and Caribbean francophone studies French colonialism and orientalism health and environment heritage politics Historical archaeology and archaeology of the contemporary past histories of architecture, modernity, and migration Histories of Capitalism history of civil war and genocide in Africa history of francophone West Africa History of philosophy history of the French empire in the 19th and 20th century with a specific interest in law Horn of Africa How negotiations and conflict between actors are mediated through material conditions human rights and narrative theory International Aid intersection between politics and culture Islam and/in Europe Islamic philosophy languages of Africans in the diaspora Madagascar methodology morpho-phonology and syntax of West-Atlantic languages such as Wolof and Pulaar music and gender Narratives of African Diaspora networked infrastructures and forms of political rule, urban spaces, and cultural life Nexus between theories of race and gender, class and postcoloniality Nigeria Pan-Africanism Peacebuilding Peacekeeping Poetics and creative writing Political Economy political economy of development popular conceptualizations of poverty and wealth post-colonial studies Postcolonial literatures of Africa and Latin America Postcolonial theory and decolonization problem of language and the matter of representation in South Africa and mainland southeast Asia relationship between the image and the social imaginary and its changing history relationships between value and violence Religion and Politics religious, social, and cultural changes induced by technology Semiotic archaeology and archaeologies of death and the body state power and the growing burdens of non-communicable diseases the Cold War and the War on Terror the history and theory of human rights the history of anthropological thought and social theory the history of childhood in Africa the history of development work in Africa the intersection of gender with social and political organization the sexualization of power and desire the study of gender and sexuality in African History urban history Urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa; Citizenship; British imperial history Urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa. West Africa women in music women'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