Faculty Affiliates
Faculty Affiliates of the Center for African Studies represent the full spectrum of the study of Africa at Harvard University. Affiliates contribute to the formulation of the Center’s academic and intellectual agendas. They also utilize the Center and its resources as a point of convergence, sharing trends, information and teaching resources related to Africa, and collaborating on research.
Kristin Fabbe
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Kristin Fabbe is an associate professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, where she has taught the course of the same name in the MBA required curriculum since joining the faculty. She also teaches in several executive education...
Susan Farbstein
sfarbstein@law.harvard.eduClinical Professor of Law (Harvard Law School)
Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic
Organization Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic Research Interests: Transitional Justice and Societies in Transition; Human Rights in Southern Africa; Clinical Legal Education and Pedagogy; Community Lawyering in the International Context...
Maha R. Farhat
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Maha Farhat holds an MD from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and a MSc in biostatistics from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She is also a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Pulmonary and Critical...
Wafaie W. 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
Kathryn Franich
Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics
Director, Harvard PhonLab
Kathryn Franich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and director of the Harvard PhonLab. She specializes in languages of Africa, with a particular focus on the sound systems of Niger-Congo languages spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria...
Walter Friedman
Lecturer of Business Administration (Harvard Business School)
Director, Business History Initiative (Harvard Business School)
Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer. He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First...
Roger Fu
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research interests include the formation and interior evolution of the Earth and other planetary bodies. Roger's primary tool is paleomagnetism, which he complements with geodynamical modeling.
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
Bizu Gelaye
Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Co-Director, Research Ethics, Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Bizu Gelaye, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor of psychiatric epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gelaye...
Tyler Giannini
Clinical Professor of Law (Harvard Law School)
Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic
Christopher D. Golden
golden@hsph.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Nutrition and Planetary Health in the Departments of Nutrition; Environmental Health; and Global Health and Population
Organization Harvard University Center for the Environment
Sue Goldie
Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Director, Global Health Education and Learning Incubator
Director, Center for Health Decision Science
Department Department of Health Policy and Management Research Interests: Improving women’s health in all parts of the world, using evidence-based policy to reduce global health inequities, building bridges between disciplines to tackle critical public...
Donna Hackley
Instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Evelynn Hammonds
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Professor of African and African American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Research interests: history of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race and sexuality, the history of disease and public health, gender in science and medicine, and African-American history. Download CV
Ricardo Hausmann
Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
Ricardo Hausmann is Director of the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, he served as the Director of the...
