# Executive Committee ## expand\_more The Harvard Center for African Studies Executive Committee is comprised of senior faculty members, who represent a wide range of disciplines in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Professional Schools. The Executive Committee oversees the strategic direction, academic plan, and financial sustainability of the Center. [### Daniel E. Agbiboa ](https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/daniel-e-agbiboa) Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Daniel E. Agbiboa is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he was Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (2017-2019) at George Mason University’s Jimmy and... ![Daniel E. Agbiboa Profile Picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/daniel_agbiboa.jpg?itok=Q88cT4xC) [### Emmanuel Akyeampong ](/people/emmanuel-akyeampong) Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies Professor Akyeampong joined the History faculty at Harvard upon receiving his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Virginia in 1993. He received his master's degree at Wake Forest University in North Carolina in 1989, where he concentrated on... ![Prof Akyeampong Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/emmanuel_k._akyeampong.jpg?itok=DkZ4gzGA) [### Eugene Richardson ](/people/eugene-richardson)Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine (Harvard Medical School) Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Global Heath and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his MD from Cornell... ![Eugene Richardson Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/etr_photo.jpg?itok=6bcqTeUh) [### Fernando Reimers ](/people/fernando-reimers)Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education Faculty Director, International Education Policy Fernando M. Reimers studies and teaches about innovative education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation, work and life in the 21st century. He also works in the area of global citizenship... ![fernando reimers profile picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/fernando-reimers-252.jpg?itok=nlj_gnE_) [### Gareth Doherty ](/people/gareth-doherty)Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Gareth Doherty’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between landscape architecture and anthropology. Doherty's recent research projects have centered on landscape-related practices at various sites across the postcolonial and Islamic worlds... ![Gareth Doherty Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/garethdoherty_19023-01-1848s-for-web.jpg?itok=VKkJ9M3P) [### Geoffrey G. Jones ](http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=24276)Isidor Straus Professor of Business History (Harvard Business School) ![Geoffrey Jones](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/ent24276.jpg?itok=jUoNtqf5) [### Henry Louis Gates Jr. ](http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/henry-louis-gates-jr)Director, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor (Harvard University) Research Interests: African literature and theory, African cultural criticism. Download CV ![Henry Louis Gates Jr.](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/gates.184.jpg?itok=3XcmIsWx) [### Jacob K. Olupona ](http://hds.harvard.edu/people/jacob-k-olupona) Professor of African Religious Traditions (Harvard Divinity School) Professor of African and African American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) Research Interests: African spirituality and ritual practices, spirit possession, Pentecostalism, Yoruba festivals, animal symbolism, icons, phenomenology, and religious pluralism in Africa and the America ![oluponajacob_dsc_2269](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/oluponajacob_dsc_2269.jpg?itok=W8GQapVc) [### Jacqueline Bhabha ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/jacqueline-bhabha)Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer on Law (Harvard Law School) Research Interests: Human Rights, childhood, and globalization. Download CV ![Jacqueline Bhabha](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/url.jpg?itok=sBTGrRdI) [### John D. Macomber ](http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=92011)Senior Lecturer of Business Administration (Harvard Business School) ![John D. Macomber](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/ent92011.jpg?itok=RNoaDUAn) [### John M. Mugane ](http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/john-m-mugane)Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) Director, Harvard University African Language Program Director, Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program John M. Mugane is the Director of the African Language program in the Department of African and African American Studies. He is a linguist specializing in African languages and is the Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures at Harvard... ![IMG_3410_2](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/IMG_3410_2.jpg?itok=5dqXZO4_) [### Kay Kaufman Shelemay ](http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/kay-kaufman-shelemay)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 ![kay_kaufman_shelemay_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/kay_kaufman_shelemay_photo.jpg?itok=yl-sy6iV) [### Marlous van Waijenburg ](/people/marlous-van-waijenburg)Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit Harvard Business School Marlous van Waijenburg is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches in the MBA required curriculum. Professor van Waijenburg’s main research agenda centers on the long-term... ![Marlous van Waijenburg Profile Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/marlous_van_waijenburg.jpg?itok=KxMxJw1A) [### Peter Huybers ](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~phuybers/)Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science and Engineering Co-director Harvard University Center for the Environment Download CV. Research: chronology crops extremes glaciation reconstruction seasonality volcanism ![Peter Huybers Picture](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/huybers_photo.png?itok=VrUMdUww) [### Ruth L. Okediji ](/people/ruth-l-okediji)Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law (Harvard Law School) Ruth L. Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith. Jr, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. A renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property... ![Ruth L. Okediji](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/ruth-okediji_img_5929_web-1800x1200_1.jpg?itok=O5AlV1_d) [### Tommie Shelby ](/people/tommie-shelby)Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy Tommie Shelby received his B.A. from Florida A & M University (1990) and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1998). Prior to coming to Harvard in 2000, he taught philosophy at Ohio State University (1996-2000). He is the author of Dark Ghettos... ![Tommie Shelby](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/shelby-2015.jpg?itok=wdnW_Ngz) [### Wafaie W. Fawzi ](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/wafaie-fawzi/)Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Professor of Nutrition, Epidemiology, and Global Health (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) Research Interests: International nutrition and epidemiology, Sudan and Tanzania. Download CV ![Wafaie W. Fawzi](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/fawzi-faculty-portrait-300x450.jpg?itok=veVro81g) [### Zoe Marks ](/people/zoe-marks)Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School Zoe Marks is the Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard Center for African Studies and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her research and teaching interests focus on the intersections of conflict and political violence; race... ![Zoe Marks Headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum9081/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/african-studies/files/12.07.18_zoe_marks_01052.jpg?itok=1fMVJE_q)