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Below is a list of the Council on African Studies members and staff.
All phone numbers have a 203 area code prefix, unless noted.
African Studies
Lamin
Sanneh, Chair / Professor, Divinity & History
Author of numerous books, among
them West African Christianity: The Religious Impact
(1983), Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact
on Culture (1989), The Crown and the Turban: Muslims
and West African Pluralism (1996), and Abolitionists
Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West
Africa (2000). His teaching includes courses in world
Christianity, theological inquiry in Africa, and Christian
missions. |
432-5336 |
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Ann
Biersteker, Associate Chair / DGS / DUS / Associate
Professor, Adjunct (Linguistics)
Author of "Kujibizana: Questions of Language and Power in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century Poetry in Kiswahili," "Masomo ya Kisasa: Contemporary Readings in Kiswahili;" Co-editor "Vita vya Kuduhu," and translator of Gakaara wa Wanjau's "Hingo ya Paawa." Areas of Research Interest: African literatures. |
432-9902 |
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Sandra
Sanneh, Senior Lector 2
Zulu Language |
432-1179 |
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John
Wa'Njogu, Director, Program in African Languages
/ Senior Lector
Swahili Language |
432-0110 |
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Oluseye
Adesola, Lector
Yoruba Language |
432-1166 |
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| Dorothy Woodson, Curator, African Collection |
432-1883 |
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Maxwell Amoh, Director, PIER-African Studies
Helping K-12 and college educators enhance their knowledge of Africa, building successful programs by working closely with them to match their program needs with content and applications that work; ethnomusicology |
432-3438 |
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Lora
LeMosy, Senior Administrative Assistant 2
Responsibilities: Manage the Council office; grants; finances; Organize Conferences, Seminars, Brown Bag lunches, etc.
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432-3436 |
Elizabeth Ludyjan, Administrative Assistant
Responsibilities: Act as Registrar for the M.A. and B.A. degree programs, recruiting; helping students; Secretary to the Program in African Languages.
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432-9903 |
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African-American Studies
Robert
Stepto, Professor, African American Studies,
American Studies, and English / Chair, African American
Studies
19th and 20th-century American literature; African American
literature and culture; American visual arts. Special interests: Antebellum
America (north and south); Progressive Era America; America between the
World Wars; the American landscape; slave narratives, autobiography, 20th-century
poetry, non-fiction prose, selected fiction beginning with Melville; book
decoration/illustration. |
432-1170 |
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Afro American Cultural Center (AACC)
Anthropology
Kamari Clarke, Associate Professor
Culture and power theory, transnationalism and globalization, religion, law and society, African diasporic movements, the anthropology of black America. Southwestern Nigeria, Oyotunji Village, USA.
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432-3685 |
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Andrew Hill, Professor / Chair / Curator, Peabody Museum
Physical anthropology, hominid evolution, paleoecology, paleoenvironments, taphonomy, East Africa, Arabia |
432-3679 |
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Michael
McGovern, Assistant Professor
Political anthropology, West
Africa |
432-3686 |
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Roderick
McIntosh, Professor
Principle interests include
later prehistory of Africa, the origin of complex societies
worldwide (esp. urbanism), palaeoclimate and human response,
the intellectual history of archaeology, and the suppression
of the illicit international traffick in art and antiquities. |
432-6649 |
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David Watts, Professor
Physical anthropology, primate behavior, primate ecology |
432-9597 |
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Art History
Frederick Lamp, Curator, African
Art, Yale University Art Gallery
Specializes in the performance art of Sierra Leone and
Guinea, with a concentration on the Temne and Baga peoples. Published on male
and female initiation, chieftaincy and ancestral ritual, power relationships
and art, sexuality and art, systems of thought, and ancient African art. Publications
include See the Music, Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art
at The Baltimore Museum of Art (2004), Art of the Baga: A Drama of
Cultural Reinvention (1996),
and La Guinée et ses Heritages Culturels (1992), as well as numerous
articles in African Arts, The Drama Review, The Dictionary
of Art, International
Encyclopedia of Dance, and The Art Bulletin. |
432-9426 |
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| Peter Mark, Professor (Wesleyan University) |
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Robert Thompson, Professor / Master (Timothy Dwight)
Teaches and writes extensively on the visual traditions of West and Central Africa, and on Black Art in the Americas. Publications include Black Gods and Kings (1971); African Art in Motion: Icon and Act (1974); The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art (1981); Flash of the Spirit: African and African-American Art and Philosophy (1983); and Pygmees (1991). |
432-0770 |
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Divinity
Lamin Sanneh, Professor, Divinity & History
Author of numerous books, among them West African Christianity: The Religious Impact (1983), Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture (1989), The Crown and the Turban: Muslims and West African Pluralism (1996), and Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa (2000). His teaching includes courses in world Christianity, theological inquiry in Africa, and Christian missions. |
432-5336 |
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Economics
Christopher
Udry, Professor / Chair, Economics
Microeconomics of development in Africa |
432-3637 |
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Epidemiology & Public Health
French
Christopher Miller, Professor
Francophone black African and Caribbean literature; literary and anthropological theory. Currently working on and directing dissertations in African and Afro-Caribbean literatures, theory and cultural studies. |
432-4900 |
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Matuku Ngame, Senior Lector
Second language acquisition and teacher education. Interests include applied
linguistics to language teaching methodology, cross-cultural evaluation of speech perception and its impact on language learning, African women writers. |
432-4900 |
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History
| Harvey Feinberg, Professor (SCSU) |
392-5608 |
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Robert Harms, Professor
Author of River of Wealth, River of Sorrow: The Central Zaire Basin in the Era of the Slave and Ivory Trade (1981), Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa (1988/1999), and the multiple award-winning The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade (2001). His graduate courses include reading seminars on African environmental history and African agrarian history, and a research seminar on African History. |
432-0559 |
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Michael Mahoney, Assistant Professor
Publications include "The Millennium Comes to Mapumulo: Popular Christianity in Rural Natal, 1866-1906," in the Journal of Southern African Studies (1999); and "Estado Novo, Homem Novo: Fascist versus Afro-Marxist Ideologies of Development in Mozambique, 1961-1977," in Michael Latham et al. (eds), Modernization, Development, and the Globalization of the Cold War (forthcoming). His graduate courses include readings and research seminars on topics in the social and cultural history of Africa from 1800 to the present. |
432-1393 |
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Law
Roberta (Lea) Brilmayer, Professor
Author of Justifying International Acts (1989); American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One Superpower World (1994); Conflict of Laws: Foundation and Future Directions (1995). Subjects: Conflict of laws; international law. |
432-0194 |
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Owen Fiss, Professor
Author of: Injunctions, 1972, 2nd ed. (with D. Rendleman), 1984; The Civil Rights Injunction, 1978; The Structure of Procedure (with R. Cover), 1979; Procedure (with R. Cover and J. Resnik), 1988; The Federal Procedural System (with R. Cover and J. Resnik), 1988, 1989, 1990; Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1993; Liberalism Divided, 1996; The Irony of Free Speech, 1996. Subjects: Procedure; the Supreme Court; free speech; equality; distributive justice; legal theory; remedies; law and development; comparative constitutional law.
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432-4963 |
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Linguistics
Ann Biersteker, Assoc Director / DGS / DUS / Assoc Prof, Adjunct (Linguistics)
Swahili Language and Literature |
432-9902 |
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Music
Michael Veal, Assistant Professor
African and African-American music, focusing on music history and ethnomusicology. He has taught courses on Traditional and Popular Music in Sub- Saharan Africa, Jazz, Popular Music and Hybridity, and music cultures of the world. |
432-2995 |
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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
John
Darnell, Professor/Chair/DGS Egyptology
His interests include Egyptian
religion, cryptography (see his recent The Enigmatic
Netherworld Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity), the scripts
and texts of Graeco-Roman Egypt (the study of which
he pursued as a DAAD Stipendiat at the University of
Cologne in 1985 and 1986), and the archaeological and
epigraphic remains of ancient activity in the Egyptian
Western Desert. |
432-2159 |
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Political Science
| Larry
Bowman, Professor (UConn) |
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William
Foltz, Professor Emeritus
Politics and international
relations of Africa, political role of the military
and ethnic conflict. |
432-5260 |
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Ato (Kwame) Onoma, Assistant Professor
Development of markets and socio-political stability of Africa, state-society relations, politics of human rights and the politics of African countries. |
432-9082 |
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Ian
Shapiro, Professor / Director, The MacMillan
Center
Author of The State of Democratic Theory (2003); The Moral Foundations of Politics(2003); Democratic Justice (1999); Democracy´s Place (1996); Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science, with Donald Green (1994); Political Criticism (1990); The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory (1986). |
432-5253 |
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Elisabeth Wood, Professor
Her current research focuses on sexual violence during
war, negotiated settlements to civil war, and redistribution and democratization
in developing countries. She is the author of Insurgent Collective Action and
Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Forging Democracy
from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador (Cambridge
University Press, 2000), as well as various scholarly articles. She is also
a Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and serves on the editorial
boards of Politics and Society and the Contentious Politics series of Cambridge University Press. |
432-6107 |
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Sociology
David Apter, Senior Research
Scientist, Professor Emeritus (Political Science & Sociology)
Publications include Ghana in Transitions: The Political Kingdom in Uganda; Comparative Politics (with H. Eckstein); Ideology and Discontent: The Politics of Modernization; Some Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Modernization; Contemporary Analytical Theory (with C. Andrain); Anarchism Today (with J. Joll); Choice and the Politics of Allocation; Political Change; The Multinational Corporation and Social Change (with L. Goodman); An Introduction to Political Analysis; Against the State; Rethinking Development; Discourse and Power: The Revolutionary Process in Mao's Republic (with Tony Saich); Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ed. with Carl Rosberg), Political Protest and Social Change (with Charles Audrain); The Legitimization of Violence; and Development by Design. |
432-5251 |
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Immanuel Wallerstein,
Senior Research Scientist; Professor Emeritus
Former President of the International Sociological Association
(1994-1998), and chair of the international Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring
of the Social Sciences (1993-1995). He writes in three domains of world-systems
analysis: the historical development of the modern world-system; the contemporary
crisis of the capitalist world-economy; the structures of knowledge. Books
in each of these domains include respectively The Modern World-System (3 vol.);
Utopistics, or Historical Choices for the Twenty-first Century; Unthinking
Social Science: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Paradigms. |
432-3334 |
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