Faculty

Center for African Studies

Richard Roberts
Professor, and Director of the Center for African Studies

Lucy Thairu
Interim Associate Director

Joel Samoff
Consulting Professor

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, listed by Home Department

AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN LANGUAGES (AMEL)

Khalil Barhoum
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, also Senior Lecturer in Linguistics

Research: Arabic language and linguistics; Arabic calligraphy; Arabic bilingual issues; Arab culture and literature
Countries: Egypt

Sanghai Mohochi
Lecturer

Research: Swahili language pedagogy

Galen Sibanda
Lecturer

Research: Fulaar

ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
David DeGusta
Assistant Professor

Research: African mammal evolution,; recovery and analysis of skeletal remains; Primate
evolution, ecology, and behavior
Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa

Richard Klein
Professor

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

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

ART AND ART HISTORY
Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz
Assistant Professor

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

Research: Supercomputing applied to the study of flows and waste transport in the environment
Countries: Kenya, South Africa

CLASSICS
Joseph Manning
Associate Professor

Research: Economic and legal history; Ancient history; Egyptology; Demotic legal papyri; Greek documentary Papyrology; Ancient Egyptian language; History of the Hellenistic world; Koine Greek; Coptic
Countries: Egypt

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Russell Berman
Professor, also Professor of German Studies

Research: German empire, literature and culture; German political culture

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (CASA)
Paulla Ebron
Associate Professor

Research: Africa and the diaspora, Topical Africa. Performance, gender,
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

DANCE
Susan Cashion
Senior Lecturer

DRAMA
Harry Elam
Professor

Research: African American and African Diaspora theatre and performance
Countries: Senegal, Kenya

EDUCATION
Martin Carnoy
Professor

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

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Bruce Lusignan
Associate Professor

Research: International cooperation in space exploration, war and peace, trade and environment, and poverty and prejudice.

FRENCH AND ITALIAN
Jean-Marie Apostolides
Professor of French and Drama

Research: French and Francophone African theater and literature

Elisabeth Boyi
Professor of French and Comparative Literature

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 on leave through January, 2009
Professor

Research: Egyptian social and labor history; Contemporary history of Palestine; Palestinian-Israeli relations; Empire and culture in settler societies
Countries: Egypt, Morocco

Sean Hanretta
Assistant Professor

Research: West Africa, intellectual and cultural history, Islam
Countries: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal

Kathryn Miller
Assistant Professor

Richard Roberts
Professor, and Director of the Center for African Studies

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

LAW
Jonathan Greenberg
Lecturer

Research: International and civil conflict: history, dynamics, resolution

Helen Stacy
Senior Lecturer, Senior Research Scholar at Freeman Spogli Institute

Research: Sustainable development; environmental justice; feminist legal theory; human rights

LINGUISTICS
Joan Bresnan
Professor

Research: Bantu languages, Australian Aboriginal Languages, optimality theories of linguistics

John Rickford
Professor

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

Research: Malaria, cellular and molecular biology of parasitic protozoa

Robert Siegel
Associate Professor

Research: Infectious Disease (HIV and malaria), International Health, Medical and Health Education
Countries: Tanzania

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Ellen Jo Baron
Professor of Pathology

Research: Infectious diseases; microbiology; Rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases
Countries: Kenya

Brian Blackburn
Clinical Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases

David Katzenstein
Professor of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine

Research: Infectious diseases and epidemiology; Therapy and the consequences of global pandemics
Countries: Southern Africa (various countries), Zimbabwe

Yvonne Maldonado
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Research: Infectious disease, polio, measles, epidemiology of perinatal HIV infection in infants

Mary Lake Polan
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Research: Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Countries: Eritrea

POLITICAL SCIENCE
James Fearon
Professor

Research: Civil and Interstate War, Ethnic Conflict

Terry Lynn Karl
Professor, also Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies

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
Professor

Michael McFaul
Professor

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

Research: Civil war; Ethnic politics; Economic growth; Political economy of development in Africa
Countries: Uganda, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya

PUBLIC POLICY
Timothy Stanton
Visiting Senior Fellow

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