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Fall 2020 CAS Faculty Grant Recipients

January 29, 2021

The Harvard Center for African Studies supports research questions and opportunities for which other funding is not readily available. The primary purpose for supporting faculty-led projects related to Africa, is to seed new areas of research and education or deepen existing areas. Grants focus on any country in Africa, or that advance ideas that are related to Africa-Asia, or other regional engagements that connect Africa to the Global South. Research or educational opportunities at any school at Harvard are welcomed. More information: https://africa.harvard.edu/cas-faculty-grants

 

Fall 2020 CAS Faculty Grant Recipients:

 

  • Forgotten Refugee: A preliminary investigation into the circumstances of refugee women from the DRC engaged in survival sex in Greece by Jacqueline Bhabha (Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights and Director of Research, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights)
     
  • The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Health System Performance and Population Health in Uganda: a Health Facility Study and Population Survey by Jessica Cohen (Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Associate Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
     
  • SACRED GROVES & SECRET PARKS: Orisha Landscapes in Brazil and West Africa by Gareth Doherty (Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design)
     
  • A comparative life cycle analysis to assess the potential impact of lab-grown leather on climate change and planetary health in Ethiopia by Sheila Isanaka (Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)
     
  • Implementing appropriately designed Information Technology (IT) systems has been hailed as a potentially transformative tool to increase local tax capacity in Africa by Anders Jensen (Assistant Professor Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School)
     
  • The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition of West Africa: A documentary film project by Ousmane Kane (Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, and Professor of African and African American Studies)
     
  • An Arts-based Approach to Reducing Malnutrition in Idjwi Island, Congo by Professor Doris Sommer (Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences)