Graduate Student Affiliates
Anthropology
Anna West
Research: Citizenship, political systems, democratization, global health, social history of medicine, domesticity, gender, smallholder agriculture, food security, landscape
Countries: Malawi, Zimbabwe
Annalisa Bolin
Research: Natural and cultural heritage, heritage politics and ethics, tourism, development, post-conflict societies
Countries: Rwanda
Briana Evans
Research: Health systems, neglected diseases, extra-governmental health resources
Countries: Burkina Faso
Gene Richardson
Research: HIV, TB, political ecology of infectious diseases, critical theory
Countries: South Africa
Hilary Chart
Research: Insecure/flexible labor, changing costs/returns/nature of education, logics of distribution & inequality, business & entrepreneurship, gender, capitalism
Countries: Southern Africa, Botswana
Jacob Doherty
Research: Cultural politics of belonging and exclusion, infrastructure, temporality, and middle class environmentalisms in contemporary urban spaces
Countries: Uganda
Jess Auerbach
Research: Middle class emergence, democracy, post-socialism
Countries: Lusophone Africa, primarily Angola
Kathryn Takabvirwa
Research: Migration, governance, mobility and citizenship
Countries: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa
Lisa Poggiali
Research: Ethnography of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT); politics of development, human rights, and humanitarianism; infrastructure and materiality; science and technology studies; critical theory; ethnography as a literary genre
Countries: East Africa (Kenya)
Mark Gardiner
Research: Science and technology studies, anthropology of development, resource extraction (specifically uranium mining), environmental politics
Countries: Namibia
Nisrin Elamin Abdelrahman
Research: Political economy of foreign land acquisitions, legal and socio-cultural history of land reform
Countries: Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania
Sarah Ives
Research: South Africa, commodities, race, climate change, agriculture, theories of place/space
Countries: South Africa/Southern Africa
Vivian Chenxue Lu
Research: South-south globalization, merchants, importation
Countries: Nigeria
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Angela Harris
Research: Drinking water quality, water access, sanitation, hygiene practices, child health, environmental contamination
Countries: Kenya, Tanzania
Casey Heier
Research: Energy and climate policy, renewable energy, resources management, international development (particularly the development of renewable energy in Africa)
Countries: Kenya, West Africa (Mali, Togo, Ghana)
Daniel Hall
Research: Participating in Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) to develop a net-zero sustainable technology center in Parkwood, Cape Town South Africa
Countries: South Africa
Francois Rerolle
Research: Wash, public health, epidemiology
Countries: Cameroon
Jeannette Laramee
Research: Integration of biogas and decentralized wastewater treatment systems with resource recovery opportunities in low-income urban and peri-urban communities in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of climate change adaptation and energy/food security
Countries: Zambia, Tanzania
Jeff Ho
Research: Effect of climate change on water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa and household vulnerability to such impacts
Countries: Mozambique, Kenya, Mali, Tanzania
JESSICA GREMBI
Research: Exposure to pathogens from water and sanitation practices, impact of pathogens on the development of the gut microbiota
Countries: Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa
Kory Russel
Research: Non-networked water supply and sanitation in Mozambique; rural water improvement impact evaluation in Nampula, Mozambique, specifically the caloric energy women expend when carrying water; exploring extremely low-cost sanitation business, service and product development in dense, informal urban settlements
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa – Mozambique
Ladi Ojora
Research: Infrastructure project development, delivery and finance
Countries: Nigeria
Lauren Steinbaum
Research: Soil-transmitted helminths, rural sanitation technologies, decentralized wastewater treatment
Countries: Ghana
Rebecca Gilsdorf
Research: Water and sanitation in developing countries, wastewater treatment, wastewater reuse, microfinance, time allocation studies, health risk assessments
Countries: East Africa - Kenya, Uganda
Satej Desai
Research: Unlocking financial investments for the 3rd world, developing infrastructure in the 3rd world, developing real estate in the US and improving efficiencies in residential construction
Countries: Zimbabwe/Southern Africa
Thomas Bartleman
Research: Ocean renewable energy
Countries: Southern Africa
Computer Science
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs
Research: Computer security, computing in emerging regions, access to technology, technology and international development
Countries: Ghana, Uganda
Parth Bhakta
Research: Communications technologies in refugee camps, mobile/smartphone technology as a vehicle for economic development
Countries: Ethiopia, South Africa
EconomicS
Thomas Ginn
Research: Development economics, refugees, political economy, conflict, field experiments
Countries: Rwanda, Kenya
Education
Margaret Irving
Research: Development, comparative education, higher education, teacher labor markets, inequality
Countries: Southern Africa
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Katrina ole-MoiYoi
Research: Policy in marine fisheries and aquaculture, food security
Countries: Kenya
Environmental Earth System Science
Elsa OrdWay
Research: Land use and land cover change, agricultural expansion, tropical forest ecology and conservation, landscape scale governance and policy, impacts of globalization on forest transitions
Countries: Cameroon, Congo basin
Rebecca Hernandez
Research: Solar energy development, soil ecology, soil biogeochemistry, global environmental change, land-use and land-cover change, agroecosystems, mangos, intercropping
Countries: Sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal
Geological and environmental sciences
Nadja Drabon
Research: Giant meteorite impacts on the early earth
Countries: South Africa
History
Erin Pettigrew
Research: Islam, gender, race, slavery, health and healing
Countries: West Africa, North Africa, Mauritania, Senegal
Keren Weitzberg
Research: The History of Kenya and its Relationship to the Indian Ocean and the Horn of Africa; the History of the British Empire; Colonial and Postcolonial History; Nationalism in Kenya and Somalia; Islam in East Africa
Countries: Kenya, Somalia
Neel Thakkar
Research: Colonial radio broadcasting, insurgent/pirate radio, labor history, social history, cultural history
Countries: Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, Southern Africa, British colonial Africa
RACHAEL HILL
Research: History of health, science and medicine in twentieth century Ethiopia
Countries: Ethiopia
Rebecca Wall
Research: Nationalism, spatial history, environmental history, intellectual history, transnational topics in African History
Countries: Senegambia (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau)
Stephanie Quinn
Research: History of economic development, South African investment in southern Africa, Caprivian identity and politics, conservation, environmental history, Namibian history
Countries: Namibia, South Africa, Zambia
Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Sarah Quesada
Research: Latin American and U.S. Latin@ narrative and film
Countries: Benin, Senegal
International Policy Studies
Megan Shutzer
Research: Land policy, economic development, gender, agriculture
Countries: East Africa
Management Science and Engineering
Bobbi Thomason
Research: Women's career paths in Africa, work and culture, women entrepreneurs, women and the attainment of leadership, how companies and work practices scale globally
Countries: Egypt, Tunisia, Ghana, Kenya
Mechanical Engineering/Product Design
Elizabeth Marshman
Research: Medical devices and water filtration and distribution in low resource settings, clinical workarounds, distribution and coordination of aid efforts
Countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa
School of Medicine
Chao Long
Research: Medicine, surgery in particular
Countries: Cameroon
Laura Bloomfield
Research: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Emergency Responders, Ecological and Environmental Processes, Environmental Health
Countries: Uganda
Nathan Lo
Research: Neglected tropical diseases, global health technologies
Countries: Cote d'Ivoire, Sub-Saharan Africa
Rishi Mediratta
Research: Public health, global health, medicine, social inequalities
Countries: Ethiopia
Timothy Singer
Research: Specialty care in developing countries; post-conflict zone healthcare; environmentalism in medicine (how healthcare is practiced to sound environmental principles); healthcare infrastructure and policy; Cancer, Neurology, Tuberculosis, Pediatrics
Countries: Mali, West Africa, Rwanda, South Sudan, South Africa
Political Science
Caroline Abadeer
Research: Development, regime transition, Islamist movements
Countries: North Africa
Darin Christensen
Research: Foreign direct investment, mining, protest, political competition, corruption
Countries: Sierra Leone, Kenya
David Hausman
Research: Arbitrariness in decisionmaking by administrative courts
Countries: South Africa
Kelly Zhang
Research: Political economy, comparative political behavior, and development.
Countries: Kenya, Tanzania
KEN OPALO
Research: Institutions and institutional development (legislatures), the political economy of resource management, elections and governance, regional cooperation
Countries: Eastern and Southern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Botswana and Zambia), Ghana
Marlette Jackson
Research: Comparative politics and international relations
Countries: Ethiopia
Melina Izama
Research: Social service delivery (health and education), religion and politics, foreign aid, women and politics, democratization, archival research, randomized controlled trials (RCTs), quantitative methods
Countries: Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana
MELISSA LEE
Research: Statebuilding, international security, interstate and intrastate conflict, state capacity
Countries: Uganda
Risa Kitagawa
Research: Transitional justice, human rights, the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in good governance
Countries: Kenya, central/east Africa more broadly
Stanford Law School
Richard Freeman
Research: Law, global health, international development, international relations
Countries: Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia
Ryne Saxe
Research: Developing government institutions, including judiciary system; sustainable agriculture and cooperatives
Countries: Central/Eastern -- DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania
Theater and Performance Studies
Kellen Hoxworth
Research: African theatre & performance, global traffics of racialized performance, intercultural performance, post-colonial theory, and Afro-futurism
Countries: South Africa