Boston Area Africanists
Assistant Professor of Economics Boston University
Research Interests:Â Economics of education, school choice, socio-economic inequality, human capital investments and labor markets in low-income settings
Assistant Professor, Economics Tufts University
Research Interests:Â Information Technology and development in Africa; shocks and markets in Africa, primarily West Africa
Professor of African Literature, African Studies Department University of Massachusetts Boston
Research Interests: Postcolonial African Literature in English; Transnational modernism; African oral literature and systems of thought; Igbo literature and traditional thought; African writing systems
Managing Director, Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre Brown University
Professor of International Health & Family Medicine, Founding Chair and Chair Emeritus Boston University Schools of Public Health & Medicine, Department of International Health
Research Interests:Â 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
Professor of City Planning MIT
Research Interests: Urban Poverty
Associate Professor, Systematic Theology Boston College
Professor Harvard School of Public Health & Harvard Medical School
Research Interests: child health and development
Associate Clinical Director Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
Research Interests:Â Southern Africa; transitional justice, accountability, and reconciliation; economic, social, and cultural rights; Alien Tort Statute litigation
Class Information:Â Advanced Skills Training for Human Rights Advocacy (Fall 2011); Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: A Comparative Perspective (Spring 2012)
Retired Associate Librarian for Public Services, Head of Reference, Tozzer Library Harvard University
Research Interests: Economic, political, and visual anthropology, population movement, Burkina Faso, Bibliography of Africa
Clinical Professor of Law and Clinical Director International Human Rights Clinic, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
Research Interests: Human Rights, South Africa, Clinical Legal Education
Class Information/Titles: Human Rights Advocacy in Contemporary South Africa
Professor, Anthropology/Sociology and Black Studies & Editor, African Studies Review Amherst College
Director of Research and Evaluation, Professor of International Health and Medicine, & Adjunct Professor of Nutrition Zambia Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, & Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Research Interests: maternal, neonatal and child health; malaria in pregnancy; malaria case management; interventions to address micronutrient deficiencies and malnutrition
Lecturer in the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature and the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Harvard University
Research Interests: Social history of modern southern Africa, with particular interests in gender, colonialism and development. Received a Ph.D in African Studies from Harvard University, May 2011.
Professor of History and Director of African American Studies Boston University
Research Interests:Â Modern Africa-Angola; Africans in the Americas
Associate Professor, Music Department Tufts University
Research Interests: Traditional African Music and Dance; Performing Arts and Culture; Intercultural Arts Pedagogy
Political Science Department Williams College
Research Interests: South African politics, race and ethnicity
Institutional Affiliation & Role Associate Research Professor and Research Director Fletcher School of Law and International Diplomacy and Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
Research Interests: 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
Associate Professor of Anthropology Brandeis University
Research Interests:Â East Africa, Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion, Ethnicity, Psychological Anthropology, Post-Coloniality
Associate Professor of Sociology Mount Holyoke College
Research Interests:Â Social stratification in South Africa, social change in Southern Africa
Lecturer on Global Health Harvard School of Public Health
Assistant Professor of Political Science Williams College
Research Interests:Â Famine/Drought Relief and Leadership Succession
Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Research interests: Capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa: magnitudes, causes, and consequences; Macroeconomic policies in African countries: fiscal, monetary, and exchange rate policies; Financial intermediation and real economic activity; Capital flows, capital account and exchange rate regimes in African countries; Economics and politics of conflicts and civil wars in Africa; Post-conflict reconstruction, state building, and development in African countries – Natural resources and domestic resource mobilization; Corruption – causes and strategies to combat it; Aid and growth; aid effectiveness
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of the African Language Program Boston University
Research Interests: interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the Africanization of Islam, Ajami literaturesÂ
Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy Harvard University Department of Economics
Research Interests: Economic History, Economic Development, International Trade, Political Economy
Class Information/Titles: Ec 1393; Ec 2325
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Wellesley College
Research Interests: African history (especially West and Central Africa), Senegal, global health, and the African diaspora
Associate Professor of History & Core Faculty in International Relations Tufts University
Research Interests:Â Social, urban and labor history of Southern Africa – Mozambique & Lusophone Africa
Faculty Affiliate and Senior Research Fellow Harvard Center for International Development
Research Interests: Agrarian change, rural economy, land tenure, common property, gender, politics of economic development, Central and Southern Africa (Malawi, Botswana, South Africa)
Associate Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Interests:Â Senegal, Language of Politics, Administration of Elections, Vote Buying, Meaning of Democracy, Electoral Reform
Adjunct Professor, Co-President Boston University School of Law, International Consortium for Law and Development (ICLAD)
Professor of Law and Political Science, Emeritus Boston University of Law
Associate Professor, Music & Theater Arts Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests:Â Ethnomusicology – Senegal, drumming, griots, Afropop
African American Studies and History Professor Boston University
Research Interests: 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
Associate Professor of International Health Boston University School of Public Health
Research interests: 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
Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies Northeastern University
Research Interests:Â HIV/AIDS, neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and health systems and policy in Africa
Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management Harvard Business School
Research Interests:Â Minerals agreements, dispute settlement between host governments and foreign investors
Bibliographer, African Studies Library Boston University
Research Interests: Hausa language and literature, Bantu language and literature especially Southern Bantu, Swahili language and literature
