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.

Jesse Bump

Lecturer on Global Health Policy, Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Executive Director, Takemi Program in International Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Jesse B. Bump is Executive Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Lecturer on Global Health Policy in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Member of the Bergen Center...
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Thomas Burke

Chief, Division of Global Health and Human Rights, Department of Emergency Medicine (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Associate Professor of Surgery (Harvard Medical School)
Founder and President, African Institute of Innovation and Technology
Organization Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, MGH; Division of General Pediatrics, Childrens' Hospital Boston; Harvard Medical School Download CV
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David Canning

Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences
Professor of Economics and International Health
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. David Canning is Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences, Deputy Director of the Program on the Global Demography of Aging, and a Professor of Economics and International Health. Dr. Canning has served as a consultant to the World Health...
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Flaminia Catteruccia

Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Flaminia Catteruccia is an Italian professor of immunology and infectious disease at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, studying the interactions between malaria and the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the parasites.
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Prithwiraj 'Raj' Choudhury

Lumry Family Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. He was an Assistant Professor at Wharton prior to joining Harvard. His research is focused on studying the Future of Work, especially the changing Geography...
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Jessica Cohen

Associate Professor of Global Health (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Department Public Health Research Interests: Applying the methods of program design, randomized trials, and impact evaluation to maternal and child health programs and policies in sub-Saharan Africa. She also has work on sustainable financing for public...
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Kevin Croke

Assistant Professor of Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Previously Kevin was a researcher in the World Bank Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) group. In 2014-2015 he was a post doctoral fellow in political economy and research associate at HSPH. His work has two main areas of focus. In one strand of work, he...
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Goodarz Danaei

Bernard Lown Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Health
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Danaei's research focuses on estimating the effect of risk factors and preventive interventions on non-communicable disease incidence and mortality at the population level. This research uses empirical evidence on risk factor distributions from population...
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Andrew Davies

Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Our research examines how animals interact with the environment and each other to affect ecosystem processes at landscape scales. We draw on the fields of community and ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, and remote sensing to explore multiple facets of...
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Alejandro de la Fuente

Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Professor of African and African American Studies and of History (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research
Department History Research Interests: Comparative slavery and race relations
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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...
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Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Associate Professor of Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
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. Download CV
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Christopher Duggan

Professor in the Department of Nutrition (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Harvard Medical School)
Department 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...
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Caroline Elkins

Professor of History and African and African American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration (Harvard Business School)
Department Department of African and African American Studies Professor Elkins teaches courses on modern Africa, protest in East Africa, human rights in Africa, and British colonial violence in the 20th century. Research interests include colonial...
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Cassandra Extavour

Timken Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Cassandra Extavour is a native of Toronto, where she attended the University of Toronto Schools and went on to obtain an Honors BSc at the University of Toronto with a specialist in Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology, a Major in Mathematics and a...
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