The 2012-2013 Standing Committee
Chair
Chair of the Committee on African Studies; Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS)
Research Interests: Mau Mau Emergency and comparative reconciliation processes, late colonial empire, Kenya. Download CV
Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law (HLS)
Research Interests: Economic development with a focus on poverty alleviation and gender equity in sub-Saharan region; activist and social movement strategies for growth with equity; Right to Health, health finance, and social health insurance in sub-Saharan region with an emphasis on Ghana, where she has worked with students for the last decade. Download CV
Executive Committee
Harvard College Professor and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies (FAS); Senior Advisor for African Studies to the Vice Provost for International Affairs History
Research Interests: History of sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa. Download CV
Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS) Government
Research Interests: Politics, economic development, poverty and political transition, agricultural development and political violence. Download CV
Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Art and Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS) History of Art and Architecture, African and African American Studies
Research Interests: West African art, Yoruba art, African architecture, Picasso and African societies. Download CV
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow (FAS)
Research interests: primarily conducted in southern Africa, has centered on 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. Download CV
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology, and Oppenheimer Research Fellow (FAS)
Current research interests: His current research in South Africa is on crime, policing, and the workings of the state, on democracy and difference, and on postcolonial politics. Download CV
Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research; Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor (FAS)
Research Interests: African literature and theory, African cultural criticism. Download CV
Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies; Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and Professor of African and Africa American Studies (FAS)
Research Interests: Civil Rights History, social engagement, law and history. Download CV.
Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights (HSPH); Associate Professor of Medicine (HMS)
Research Interests: Public health, medical ethics, early warning in response to war and disaster, human rights and international humanitarian law in crisis settings, and problems of human security in the context of forced migration and conflict. Download CV
Director of the African Language Program; Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures (FAS), Director of the Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program
Research Interests: African languages and linguistics
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Assistant Professor of Medicine (MGH) Massachusetts General HospitalMedicine
Research Interests: Understanding the correlates of spontaneous control of HIV-1 infection in HIV-1 long-term non-progressors. Download CV
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity (HDS) Women's Studies in Religion
Research Interests: Women and gender in Islam, feminism and Islam in America, and feminism and post-colonial thought. Download CV
Professor Ahmed’s latest book , A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence from the Middle East to America, is now available.
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion, Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS) Director, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies ProgramChair of Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Cultures, Committee on the Study of Religion
Research Interests: Swahili language and literature, Islamic societies, devotional literature, Muslim literatures, arts in Africa. Download CV
Assistant Professor of Child Health and Human Rights (HSPH) Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human RightsGlobal Health and Development
Research Interests: The developmental and psychosocial consequences of concentrated adversity on children and families, resilience and protective processes in child development, child health and human rights, and applied cross-cultural mental health research. Download CV
Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies; Lecturer on Law, Lecturer on Social Studies (HLS) Harvard's Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human RightsLaw
Research Interests: Human Rights, childhood, and globalization
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography (HSPH) Global Health and Population
Research Interests: Health, economics, demography, HIV/AIDS. Download CV
W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences (FAS) Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on RaceSociology, African and African American Studies
Research Interests: Intersection of social inequality, politics, and race
Chief, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Department of Emergency Medicine, MGH; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Founder and President, African Institute of Innovation and Technology; Chair, Ujenzi Charitable Trust Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, MGH; Division of General Pediatrics, Childrens' Hospital Boston; Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor (HGSE)
Research interests: migration, with a particular emphasis on refugee experiences, both in low-income countries (especially sub-Saharan Africa) and among immigrants with refugee backgrounds in the United States.
Assistant Professor of Business Administration (HBS) Business Administration
Research Interests: Financial-sector regulation and contract enforcement in developing countries, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa
Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition (HSPH); Associate Professor of Pediatrics (HMS) Nutrition
Research Interests: The nutritional management of acute and persistent diarrhea; micronutrient trials in developing countries to prevent diarrhea and respiratory Infections; general aspects of energy and protein metabolism in catabolic Diseases; the role of maternal and child nutrition on neurodevelopment outcomes. Download CV
Chair of the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership; Chair of the Harvard AIDS Initiative; Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences (HSPH)
Research Interests: Human retroviruses, virus evolution, vaccine design, drug resistance, and molecular determinants of transmission efficiency Download CV
Assistant Clinical Professor (HLS) Clinical Director, Human Rights Program
Research interests: Transitional Justice and Societies in Transition; Human Rights in Southern Africa; Clinical Legal Education and Pedagogy; Community Lawyering in the International Context; Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, including under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act.
Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology (HSPH)
Research Interests: International nutrition and epidemiology, Sudan and Tanzania. Download CV
Director of Studies for Special Concentrations; Senior Lecturer on Folklore and Mythology (FAS)
Research Interests: Oral narrative performance especially among the Swahili, interface between oral and literary forms, dance traditions. Download CV
Andelot Professor of Demography (HSPH)
Research Interests: Male fertility, mortality and the changing family in Africa, West Africa and Francophone countries of the Sahel
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs (FAS)
Research interests: international trade, foreign investment, immigration, development, and private sector standards for ethical and environmentally responsible practices. Download CV.
Assistant Professor of Government (FAS)
The politics and political economy of sub-Saharan Africa; the development and organization of political parties and electoral politics in Africa, with a particular focus on electoral fraud and the use and impact of violence in elections; voter behavior, ethnic politics; Ghana, Nigeria; field experiments.
Librarian for Sub-Saharan Africa, Collection Development Department Harvard College Library - Widener Library
Collection development of library resources on sub-Saharan Africa in Humanities and Social Sciences
Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature (FAS)
Research Interests: African “Anglophone” literatures, theatrical theory and dramatic literature. Download CV.
Director of the Science, Technology, and Globalization Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Professor of the Practice of International Development (HKS)
Research Interests: Science, technology, and innovation policy; innovation and sustainability; biotechnology and public policy; and agricultural innovation. Download CV
Gates Professor of Developing Countries and Professor of Economics (FAS)
Research Interests: education and health, water, and agriculture in developing countries. Download CV
Acting Dean of Humanities (2010-2011); Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, Supported by the Time Warner Endowment (FAS)
Research Interests: Music of the African Diaspora, jazz, African American Music, music of Mali, cultural theory and ethnomusicology. Download CV.
Associate Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine (HMS)
Research Interests: female circumcision/female genital cutting, global women’s health, general obstetrics and gynecology, African immigrant and refugee. Download bio
Professor of Economics (FAS)
Research interests: long-term impact that historic events can have on current economic development; long-term adverse economic effects of Africa’s slave trades; importance of hold-up and incomplete contracting in international trade; importance of international factors for countries’ economic development. Download CV
Professor of African Religious Traditions (HDS); Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS)
Research Interests: African spirituality and ritual practices, spirit possession, Pentecostalism, Yoruba festivals, animal symbolism, icons, phenomenology, and religious pluralism in Africa and the America
Research Scientist, Department of Global Health and Population (HSPH) Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Research interest: applications of epidemiologic research method and information technology in complex emergency settings. Pham has extensive experiences in designing and implementing research and technology solutions in on-going and post-confliction countries such northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Iraq, Cambodia and other areas affected by mass violence.
Lecturer on Law; Academic Director of the Human Rights Program
Research interests: gender, sexuality, HIV/AIDS, reproductive and sexual health, population policy, and human rights. Download CV
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS)
Research Interests: Ethnomusicology, musical  ethnography, Ethiopia and Ethiopian diaspora. Download CV
Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population (HSPH), Associate Professor of Medicine (HMS)
Research Interests: Problems of international human rights and humanitarian law, humanitarian crises, and medical ethics in practical settings of disasters and emergencies.
Research Scientist, Department of Global Health and Population (HSPH) Director, Program on Vulnerable Populations, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Research interests: social reconstruction in countries affected by mass violence.
