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.
Daniel E. Agbiboa
danielagbiboa@fas.harvard.eduAssociate 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...
Emmanuel Akyeampong
akyeamp@fas.harvard.eduEllen 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...
Matt R. Andrews
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy (Harvard Kennedy School)
Center for International Development
Ali Asani
aliasani@fas.harvard.eduMurray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Ali Asani is Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures. He has served as the Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard...
Rifat Atun
Professor of Global Health Systems
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr Rifat Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair for the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program. Professor Atun’s research has two major strands. The first research strand examines health systems performance...
Demba Ba
Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering
Demba Ba is Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Ba directs the Computation, Representation, and Inference in Signal Processing Group at SEAS. His lab’s recent...
Jane Barrow
Associate Dean for Global and Community Health
Executive Director, HSDM Initiative to Integrate Oral Health and Medicine
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
As Associate Dean for the Office of Global and Community Health, Jane Barrow directs School-wide efforts in education, research, and clinical services that further the School’s strategic goals for oral public health and the integration of oral health and...
Hakeem Belo-Osagie
Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
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
Agnes Binagwaho
Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Vice Chancellor of the University of Global Health Equity
Suzanne Blier
Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Professor of African and African American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Department 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
David Bloom
dbloom@hsph.harvard.eduClarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
Department Global Health and Population Research Interests: Health, economics, demography, HIV/AIDS. Download CV
Lawrence D. Bobo
W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Dean of the Division of Social Sciences (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Research Interests: Race; ethnicity; politics; social inequality. Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University where he holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and...
Matthew Bonds
Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Matthew Bonds has a PhD in economics and a PhD in (disease) ecology from the University of Georgia. He is an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder & scientific director of PIVOT. His research...
Lowell Brower
Lecturer on Folklore & Mythology
Lowell Brower is the Head Tutor / Director of Undergraduate Studies and a Lecturer for the Committee on Degrees in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard. Working at the intersection Folklore, Africana Studies, Anthropology, and Refugee and Migration Studies...
