Richard roberts, ford dorsey co-Director

Richard Roberts is the Francis and Charles Field Professor of History. He is an expert in the social history of West Africa and has published eleven books and edited collections.  His most recent publications include Trafficking in Slavery's Wake:  The Experience of Women and Children (with Benjamin Lawrance, 2012), Marriage by Force?: Contestion over Consent and Coercion in Africa (with Anne Bunting and Benjamin Lawrance (under review);  Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa:  Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (with Emily Burrill and Elizabeth Thornberry, 2010) and Muslim Family Law in Sub-Saharan Africa:  Colonial Legacies and Poscolonial Challenges (with Ebrahim Moosa and Shamil Jeppie, 2010.  He has been teaching at Stanford since 1980 and is looking forward to co-directing CAS with Grant Parker.  

 

Grant Parker, Ford dorsey co-director

Grant researches (mostly South) African culture, with a particular interest in monuments, collective memory, and the creative arts. His first book was The Agony of Asar: a thesis on slavery by the former slave, Jacobus Elisa Johannnes Capitein, 1717-1747 (Markus Wiener Publishers 2001), an annotated edition and discussion of a former west African slave's apparent defense of slavery. He has also edited a book, South Africa, Greece and Rome: classical confrontations (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press), which investigates intersections between modern South African and ancient Greco-Roman histories. In a new project, he is taking stock on statues honoring Nelson Mandela. He taught in BOSP's Cape Town program (Winter 2010) and has helped in preparatory events for Stanford students who intend to study in Cape Town. He teaches in Stanford's Department of Classics. Grant hails from Cape Town: he studied at the University of Cape Town and Princeton University, and taught at the University of the Witwatersrand and Duke University before coming to the farm in 2006.

 

LAURA HUBBARD, associate director

Laura Hubbard earned her PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley in 2007.  Her research interests include the politics of youth, globalization and the media, humanitarianism, the city, race and representation, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the cultural politics of new media infrastructures.

 

  

  

 

 

ARIANE KHALFA, Program Coordinator

Ariane Khalfa

Ariane Khalfa received a BA in Geography and French with a Certificate in African Studies from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. During the summer of 2011, she traveled to Togo, West Africa where she interned with a Togolese NGO in a rural township. After graduating from Mount Holyoke, Ariane worked for two years at the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco. Ariane returned from her second trip to Togo during the summer of 2014, where she created and managed a water filter project and an educational African film festival held in three villages over the span of four months.

Ariane is thrilled to work in a program surrounded by students, faculty and staff who share her passion for African Studies, and enjoys engaging with and learning from the diverse CAS and Stanford Global Studies communities.