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.
Jennifer Leaning
jleaning@hsph.harvard.eduFrançois-Xavier Bagnoud 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
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...
Françoise Lionnet
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)
Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence
A past-President of the American Comparative LiteratureAssociation, Françoise Lionnet is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, African and African American Studies, and Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard. In Fall 2015...
Ann Marie Lipinski
Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
Organization Nieman Foundation for Journalism Research Interests: As a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, Lipinski was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for stories she did with two other reporters on corruption in the Chicago City...
Shahin Lockman
Associate Professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Lockman is an infectious-disease trained clinician and has conducted clinical trials, epidemiologic and implementation science investigation related to HIV-1 in Botswana since 1996. One of her research focus areas is the safety and efficacy of...
John D. Macomber
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration (Harvard Business School)
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...
Farrah Mateen
Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
Farrah J. Mateen, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is originally from Saskatchewan, Canada where she received her medical degree (2005). She pursued adult neurology training at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota...
Margaret McConnell
Associate Professor of Global Health Economics
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
McConnell's research applies tools from economics to answer questions about how to improve health outcomes for marginalized populations, with a particular focus on behavioral economic theory, experimental methods and impact evaluation strategies. She has...
Dana McCoy
Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Nicolas Alan Menzies
Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Nick Menzies is Assistant Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Population, and part of the core faculty of the Harvard Center for Health Decision Science. Professor Menzies uses decision science and quantitative research to...
Célestin Monga
Senior Research Fellow, Center for African Studies
Visiting Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Célestin Monga is Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Associate at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, and Fellow at the Harvard University Center for African Studies. He...
Ingrid Monson
imonson@fas.harvard.eduQuincy Jones Professor of African-American Music (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Professor of African and African American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of African and African American Studies
Research Interests: Music of the African Diaspora, jazz, African American Music, music of Mali, cultural theory and ethnomusicology. Download CV.
Marcyliena Morgan
Professor of African and African American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
Executive Director, Hiphop Archive & Research Institute at the Hutchins Center
Research interests: the African Diaspora, identity and language in the USA, England, and the Caribbean. Download CV
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...
Nawal Nour
nnour@partners.orgAssociate Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Medicine (Harvard Medical School)
Research Interests: Female circumcision/female genital cutting, global women's health, general obstetrics and gynecology, African immigrant and refugee. Download bio
