Harvard University
Committee On African Studies

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African Studies Faculty, Researchers and Administrators

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A - E

Rawi Abdelal
Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
617 495-7853
rabdelal@hbs.edu
Research Interests – Emerging markets, globalization, government and business, political economy.
Monni Adams
Associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology & Emerita
617 495-8789
mmadams@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Art, Anthropology, ritual and religious practice, Ivory Coast, Zaire
Leila Ahmed
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
617 496-5316
leila_ahmed@harvard.edu
Research Interests– Women and gender in Islam, feminism and post-colonial thought
Emmanuel K. Akyeampong
Harvard College Professor and Professor of History and of African & African American Studies
617 496-3684
akyeamp@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Social and political history, disease and ecology, urban history, religious interaction
Ali Asani
Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture; Associate of Lowell House
617 495-5755
aliasani@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests– Swahili language and literature, Islamic societies, devotional literature
Nava Ashraf
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
617 495-5058
nashraf@hbs.edu

Research Interests– Behavior economics, agricultral production, microfiance, Kenya and Zambia

Robert H. Bates
Eaton Professor of the Science of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies
617 496-8237
robert.bates.harvard.edu@gmail.com
Research Interests – Politics, economics and public policy, poverty, political transition
Suzanne Preston Blier
Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies
617 495-0781
blier@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – African art and architecture, cultural and social history, Benin, Togo
David Bloom
Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography;
Chair, Department of Global Health and Population
617-432-0866
dbloom@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests– Health, economics, demography, HIV/AIDS
Rita M. Breen
Executive Officer, Committee on African Studies;
Executive Director, Harvard South Africa Fellowship Program
617 495-5265
rbreen@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Colonial history, land issues, University African Studies programs, Kenya, South Africa
John Briscoe
Professor of Practice of Environmental Health, HSPH;
Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Environmental Health, SEAS
jbriscoe@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Water and ecomomic development in South Africa and Mozambique
Shirley Burchfield
Adjunct Lecturer on Education
617 496-4786
shirley_burchfield@gse.harvard.edu
Research Interests– International education, women's education, community-based organizations, Sub-Saharan Africa
Richard Cash
Senior Lecturer in International Health, School of Public Health
617 432-1076
racash@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Rural and urban health systems, infectious diseases, Ghana, Mali, Kenya, Sudan, Nigeria and South Africa
Charles Deutsch
Senior Research Scientist, Harvard School of Public Health
617 432 3936
cdeutsch@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Education and community health, substance abuse, adolescent health, South Africa
Catherine S. M. Duggan
Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
617 496-8612
cduggan@hbs.edu
Research Interests – Financial-sector regulation and contract enforcement in developing countries, with a focus in sub-Saharan Africa.
Felton James Earls
Professor of Social Medicine, HMS;
Professor of Human Behavior & Dev., Public Health & Child Psychiatry;
Director, Harvardv South Africa Fellowship Program
617 495-5568
felton_earls@hms.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Child and adolescent mental health, Tanzania, South Africa
Caroline Elkins
Professor of African Studies
617 495-2568
elkins@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Mau Mau Emergency and comparative reconciliation processes, late colonial empire, Kenya
Myron (Max) Essex
Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences, HSPH
Chair, Harvard AIDS Institute
617 432-1023
messex@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Retroviruses in Leukemia and AIDS, Immunosuppresion, Vaccines, Hepatitus B virus, Liver cancer
Majid Ezzati
Associate Professor of International Health, HSPH
617 432-5722
majid_ezzati@harvard.edu
Research Interests – Household energy technology, Indoor air pollution, and health in sub-Saharan Africa

F - J

Susan Farbstein
Clinical Instructor, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School
617-495-4589
sfarbstein@law.harvard.edu

Research Interests –transitional justice, accountability and reconciliation, Alien Tort Statute litigation
Wafaie W. Fawzi
Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, HSPH
617 432-2086
mina@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – International nutrition and epidemiology, Sudan and Tanzani
Gregory A. Finnegan
Associate Librarian for Public Services and Head of Reference in the Tozzer Library
617 495-0669
gregory_finnegan@harvard.edu
Research Interests – Economic, political, and visual anthropology, population movement, Burkina Faso, Bibliography of Africa
Deborah Foster
Senior Lecturer, Folklore and Mythology and Director of Studies for Special Concentrations
617 495-8056
dfoster@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Oral narrative performance especially among the Swahili, interface between oral and literary forms, dance traditions
Duana Fullwiley
Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of Medical Anthropology
617 496 4987
dfullwil@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Anthropology of Science, Medical Anthropology, Race, Global Health, Technology and Identity, Genetics and Society, particularly in French-speaking areas
Henry L. Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor; Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African & African American Studies; Associate of Adams House
617 496-5468
hgates@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – African literature and theory, African cultural criticism
Edward Green
Research Scientist, School of Public Health Center for Population Studies
egreen@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Medical Anthropology, Health Education, AIDS, Family Planning, Indigenous Health Systems
Sofia Gruskin
Associate Professor on Health and Human Rights;
Director of the Program on International Health and Human Rights
617 432-4315
sgruskin@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Health and human rights, child rights, women, health and gender
Daniel Tzvi Halperin
Lecturer on International Health;
Senior Researcher, Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project
daniel_halperin@harvard.edu
Research Interests – HIV/AIDS, sexual reproduction, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
ebhiggin@fas.harvard.edu
Interests –Social engagement, law and history
Allan G. Hill
Andelot Professor of Demography, HSPH
617 432-4075
ahill@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Male fertility, mortality and the changing family in Africa, West Africa and Francophone countries of the Sahel
Nahomi Ichino
Assistant Professor of Government
617 384-7231
nichino@gov.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Democracy, elections, political parties, political instability, Ghana, Nigeria
Bassey E. Irele
Assistant Librarian for Sub-Saharan Africa; Teaching Assistant in African & African American Studies
617 495-3559
birele@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – African library acquisitions, African languages and literatures; Associate of Kirkland House
Francis Abiola Irele
Professor of African and African American Studie
617 495-4113
irele@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – African literatures, African and Caribbean comparative literature, Nigeria
Michael D. Jackson
Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
617 495-3942
mjackson@hds.harvard.edu
Research Interests - The Kuranku, Sierra Leone, existentialism, phenomenology
Biodun Jeyifo
Professor of African and African American Studies
617 384-9418
bjeyifo@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – African “Anglophone” literatures, theatrical theory and dramatic literature
Matthew Jukes

Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
617 495-8142
Matthew_jukes@gse.harvard.edu

Research Interests – Adolescent health. HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases, educational access and development, Tanzania, Gambia, Kenya
Calestous Juma
Professor of the Practice of International Development, Kennedy School of Government
Director of the Science, Technology and Innovation Program
Calestous_Juma@harvard.edu
Research Interests – Science and technology, biological diversity, biotechnology and public policy, international trade and environmental policy, Kenya

K - O

Phyllis J. Kanki
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Senior Researcher, Harvard AIDS Institute
Leader, AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria
617 432-1267
pkanki@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Biology and molecular epidemiology of HIV and STDs in West Africa. Comparative studies of HIV-2 and HIV-1 in West Africa
Martin L. Kilson, Jr.
Thomson Research Professor of Government, Emeritus
Research Interests – African state dynamics, civil society and political groups
Michael Kremer
Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Government Dept. and CID Faculty Fellow
617 495-9145
mkremer@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Economy of education, epidemiology of AIDS, technological change and population growth, Kenya
Robert Alan LeVine
Professor , Emeritus, Graduate School of Education
robert_levine@harvard.edu
Research Interests – Cultural aspects of parenthood, child development, adult personality in society
Stephen Marks
François-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, HSPH
617 432-4316
smarks@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Human rights, international law and politics, development planning
Richard G. Marlink
Professor of the Practice of Public Health, HSPH; Scientific Director and Executive Director, HSPH AIDS Institute
617 432-4114
marlink@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – HIV/AIDS, epidemiologic and clinical studies, Senegal Botswana
Malcolm McPherson
Senior Fellow in Development, Kennedy School of Government Center for Business & Government
617 496-0005
malcolm_mcpherson@harvard.edu
Research Interests – Agricultural development, macroeconomic reform, central banking, monetary policy, Zambia, Gambia, Ethiopia and Botswana
Jens Meierhenrich
Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies
617 496-7376
jmeierhenrich@gov.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Genocide, international law and politics, justice and ethics
Marc Mitchell
Lecturer on International Health, Dept. of Global Health and Population
617 496-7376
mmitchel@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests –Child health, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS prevention, mobile technology in developing nations
Ingrid Monson
Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment
617 495-2791
imonson@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Music of Africa and the African Diaspora, race and gender within the performance and reception of music and dance
Sally Falk Moore
Victor Thomas Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
617 495-3835
smoore@wjh.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Law, politics and anthropology, population movement, land tenure, social change
John M. Mugane
Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures and Director of African Languages Program, Dept. of African and African American Studies
617 496-4995
mugane@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – African languages and linguistics
Nathan Nun
Assistant Professor of Economics
617-496-4958
nnunn@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – International trade, economic development, and economic performance within Africa
Jacob K. Olupona
Professor of African Religious Traditions (Divinity School)
Professor of African and African American Studies ( Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
617 496-0354
olupona@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – African religions, African Diaspora, religion and society, African immigrant religions

P - T

Pauline Peters
Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development
617 495-3785
pauline_peters@harvard.edu
Research Interests – Agrarian change, rural economy, land resources, common property, gender politics, politics of economic development, Central and Southern Africa (Malawi, Botswana)
Robert Rotberg
Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government
Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
617 496-2258
robert_rotberg@harvard.edu
Research Interests – East, central and southern Africa, politics, economics and history
Jean-Louis Sankale
Sr. Research Scientist, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH
617 432-3412
jsankale@hsph.harvard.edu
Research Interests – HIV/AIDS, AIDS prevention in Nigeria, virology
Abdoulaye Dieng Sarr
Senior Research Scientist, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH
617 432 4686
adsarr@hsph.harvard.edu

Kay Kaufman Shelemay
G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and
Professor of African and African American Studies
617 495-4008
shelemay@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Ethnomusicology, music and ritual, Ethiopian music

U - Z

Bruce Walker
Professor of Medicine
Director, Harvard Center for AIDS Research
617 724-8332
bwalker@partners.org
Research Interests – HIV/AIDS research, Sub Saharan Africa
Eric D. Werker
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
617 496-4594
ewerker@hbs.edu
Research Interests – Foreign aid, investiment, non-governmental organizations, refugees, economic development
Lucie White
Horvitz Professor of Law
617 495-4633
lwhite@law.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Economic development, legal strategies for racial and economic justice in South Africa, gender development and Free Trade Zone law in Ghana
Richard Wrangham
Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Harvard College Professor
617 495-5948
wrangham@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests – Primate behavior and ecology, human ecology, evolutionary biology