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