Center for African Studies Faculty
CAS FACULTY
AFRICAN STUDIES
JOEL SAMOFF
Consulting Professor
Research: African politics; Politics and education; Foreign aid; Political development and modernization; African urban politics, political economy, sociology of knowledge, computers, and social change.
Countries: Tanzania, Zambia, Bénin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe
AFFILIATED FACULTY
AFRICAN AND MIDDLE EASTERN LANGUAGES (AMEL)
KWAME ASSENYOH
Lecturer
Research: Akan language and culture
KHALIL BARHOUM
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator, also Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Research: Arabic language and linguistics; Arabic calligraphy; Arabic bilingual issues; Arab culture and literature.
Countries: Egypt
SARAH MKHONZA
Lecturer
Research: Zulu and Xhosa language and linguistics.
Countries: South Africa
SAMUEL MUKOMA
Lecturer
Research: Swahili language and linguistics.
RAMZI SALTI
Lecturer
Research: Arabic and comparative literature.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Bing Professor and Stanford Director of the Center of Ecotourism and Sustainable Development
Research: Biological anthropology, ecological and evolutionary anthropology, cultural evolution, conservatoin and community development, resource management, environmental issues
Countries: Central and South America
PAULLA Ebron
Associate Professor
Research: Africa and the diaspora, tropical Africa, performance, gender, and social history of the tropics
Countries: Gambia
James Ferguson
Professor and Chair of Anthropology
Research: Issues of globalization and governmentality in contemporary Africa, the crisis of the state, and emergence of new forms of government-via-NGO. Political economy; “Development”; Systems of discourse and knowledge; Culture and power; Labor migration; Theory and politics of ethnography.
Countries: Zambia, Lesotho, South Africa
Associate Professor
Research: Social identities, health outcomes, and molecular genetics in West Africa.
RONALD JENNINGS
Lecturer
Research: Cosmopolitan rights and subjectivities; international law; political and structural genealogy of sovereignty
RICHARD KLEIN
Professor
Research: Interrelation of cultural, biological, and environmental change in human evolution; Reconstruction of environment, ecology, and human behavior from animal remains in archeological sites.
Countries: South Africa
LIISA MALKKI
Associate Professor
Research: Historical anthropology; Mass displacement and exile; Racial essentialism and mass violence; Nationalism and internationalism; Gender and imperial power.
Countries: Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Namibia, Sudan, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt
LYNN MESKELL
Professor
Research: Archaeological theory; Archaeology and ethnography; Egyptian archaeology; Mediterranean and Middle Eastern archaeology; The heritage of South Africa.
Countries: South Africa, Egypt
Krish Seetah
Assistant Professor
Research: Zooarchaeologist with focus is primarily on colonisation and colonialism, agency within the human-animal relationship
Countries: Mauritius
Graduate School of Business
Katherine Casey
Assistant Professor
Research: Interactions between economic and political forces in developing countries, including the impact of government reforms and external interventions on institutional strength and economic growth.
Countries: Comoros, Madagascar, Sierra Leone
CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING (CEE)
ALEXANDRIA B. BOEHM
Clare Booth Luce Asssociate Professor
Research: Coastal water quality in developed and developing countries, technologies for reducing the burden of infectious disease.
Countries: Kenya, South Africa
JENNA DAVIS
Asssociate Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Research: the intersection of health, economic development and environmental protection, with particular emphasis on cost-effective and sustainable water supply and sanitaiton service delivery in developing countries.
Countries: Kenya, Tanzania
OLIVER FRINGER
Associate Professor
Research: Supercomputing applied to the study of flows and waste transport in the environment.
Countries: Kenya, South Africa
CLASSICS
GRANT PARKER
Associate Professor
Research: Latin and the exotic and geographic elements of Roman imperial culture; classical reception.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
VINCENT BARLETTA
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Research: Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature; Portugese Language and Literature
Alvan Ikoku
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Medicine
Research: African and African diasporic literatures, twentieth-century fiction, narrative ethics, and histories of tropical medicine and global health.
Countries: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa
DRAMA
HARRY ELAM
Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities
Research: African American and African Diaspora theatre and performance.
Countries: Senegal, Kenya
ECONOMICS
PASCALINE DUPAS
Assistant Professor and Center Fellow at Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research
Research: Development, Applied Microeconomics, health, education and saving.
EDUCATION
H. SAMY ALIM
Professor
Research: Race, inequality and language in eductaion (RICE), ethnicity, identity, literacy and culture, and urban education.
MARTIN CARNOY
Vida Jacks Professor of Education
Research: Economics of education; Economics of human resources; Political economy; Economic development; Cost-benefit analysis; Educational systems evaluation.
Countries: Kenya, Tunisia, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Chad, South Africa
PRUDENCE CARTER
Professor
Research: Cross-national study (in the U.S. and South Africa) examining the social and cultural incorporation of students in both minority-dominant and white-dominant urban schools.
SHELLEY GOLDMAN
Professor
Research: Family issues, qualitative research methods, anthropology and education, learning design, mathematics education, curriculum and instruction, parental involvement, educational equity, technology in teaching and learning, elementary education, ethnography, problem-based learning
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
BRUCE LUSIGNAN
Associate Professor, Emeritus
Research: advanced communications, including satellite, wireless, and fiber optics for TV voice and data. He has supplied international modernization plans in emerging markets, including technical, economic, and political and social factors.
English
Vaughn Rasberry
Assistant Professor
Research: African American literature, global Cold War culture, the European Enlightenment and its critics, postcolonial theory, and philosophical theories of modernity
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Marcel Fafchamps
Senior Fellow
Research: Economic development, market institutions, social networks
FRENCH AND ITALIAN
JEAN-MARIE APOSTOLIDES
Professor
Research: French and Francophone African theater and literature.
ELISABETH MUDIMBE-BOYI
Professor Emerita
Research: 20th century French literature and Francophone literature from Africa and the Caribbean. Contacts of cultures, travel writing, history and memory in literature.
Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo
HISTORY
JOEL BEININ
Donald J. McLachlan Professor
Research: Egyptian social and labor history; Contemporary history of Palestine; Palestinian-Israeli relations; Empire and culture in settler societies.
Countries: Egypt, Morocco
JAMES T. CAMPBELL
Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History
Research: African American history; South Africa; African American journeys to Africa from the mid 18th century to 2005.
RICHARD ROBERTS
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History
Research: The social history of law in colonial Africa; Persistence of local African industries; French colonial policy; End of slavery.
Countries: Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia
HUMAN BIOLOGY
ANNE FIRTH MURRAY
Consulting Professor
Research: Economics, public administration, political science. Former writer for UN and founding president of the Global Fund for Women
Countries: East Africa
ROBERT SIEGEL
Professor
Research: Infectious Disease (HIV and malaria), International Health, Medical and Health Education.
Countries: Tanzania
law
JONATHAN GREENBERG
Lecturer
Research: International and civil conflict: history, dynamics, resolution
HELEN STACY
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Research: Sustainable development, environmental justice, feminist legal theory, human rights.
lINGUISTICS
JOAN BRESNAN
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita in Humanities at Stanford University
Research: Bantu languages, Australian Aboriginal Languages, optimality theories of linguistics.
JOHN RICKFORD
Professor
Research: Pidgin and Creole languages; Variation and change in language, especially as conditional by social class, ethnicity, and style; African American English, and its African and other sources, as well as its educational and political implications.
Countries: Guyana
MicroBiology & Immunology
JOHN C. BOOTHROYD
Professor
Research: Malaria, cellular and molecular biology of parasitic protozoa.
School of medicine
ELLEN JO BARON
Professor of Pathology, Emerita
Research: Infectious diseases; microbiology; Rapid diagnostic tests for infectious diseases.
Countries: Kenya
MICHELE BARRY
Senior Associate Dean for Global Health, Professor of Medicine, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute
Research: Global health workforce, clinical tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, problems of underserved populations and globalizations impact upon health in the developing world.
Countries: Uganda, Borneo, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Liberia, Haiti, South Africa
ERAN BENDAVID
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research: Using methods from several disciplines, including political science, economics and epidemiology, to study the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in developing countries.
BRIAN BLACKBURN
Clinical Assistant Professor
Research: parasitology and international health; vehicle borne diseases in refugees; the distribution of insecticide treated bednets to prevent mosquito borne diseases like Malaria and filiarisis.
Countries: Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya
DAVID KATZENSTEIN
Professor (Research) of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine)
Research: Infectious diseases and epidemiology; Therapy and the consequences of global pandemics.
Countries: Southern Africa (various countries), Zimbabwe
YVONNE MALDONADO
Professor of Pediatrics
Research: Infectious disease, polio, measles, epidemiology of perinatal HIV infection in infants.
JULIE PARSONNET
George DeForest Barnett Professor in Medicine and Professor of Health Research and Policy
Research: Long-term consequences of chronic interactions between the human host and the microbial world, diarrheal diseases in the developing world, and sanitation and hygiene.
Countries: Gambia
MARY LAKE POLAN
Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the School of Medicine, Emerita
Research: Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Countries: Eritrea
Political Science
DAVID ABERNETHY
Professor Emeritus
Research: Comparative politics, international relations, Sub-Saharan Africa, and factors affecting the rise and fall of European overseas empires.
COIT BLACKER
Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute, Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies
Research: Soviet/Russian foreign policy and security policy, U.S. foreign policy and security policy; national and international security relations.
LARRY DIAMOND
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Research: Comparative problems of democratic development and consolidation; U.S. and international policies to promote democracy and foster development; Democratic consolidation in Taiwan, in comparative perspective; Democratic transitions and prospects in Africa; Public attitudes and values toward democracy in new democracies.
Countries: Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana
JAMES FEARON
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Research: Civil and Interstate War, Ethnic Conflict.
TERRY LYNN KARL
Professor
Research: New democracies; The politics of oil-exporting countries; Human rights; Comparative politics, especially comparative democratization, transitions from authoritarian rule, civil wars and human rights in all regions.
Countries: Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, South Africa, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo
DAVID LAITIN
James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor
Research: ethinic conflict, comparative politics, politcal culture, language, religion, and national identities.
Countries: Somalia
STEPHEN STEDMAN
Freeman Spogli Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and FSI, Affiliated Member of CISAC, and Professor of Political Science
Research: International organizations and global security, cival wars, mediation, conflict prevention, and peacekeeping.
JEREMY WEINSTEIN
Associate Professor of Political Science, Freeman Spogli Institute Senior Fellow
Research: Civil war; ethnic politics; political economy of development; Africa.
psychiatry and behavioral sciences
CHERYL KOOPMAN
Professor
Research: Survivors of a variety of stressful events, including political and interpersonal violence, natural disasters and serious illness.
DARYN REICHERTER
Clinical Associate Professor
Research: Psychiatry and behavioral science, psychopharmacology.
HUGH BRENT SOLVASON
Clinical Associate Professor
Research: Medication strategies for reducing cognitive impairment; treatment resistant depression, strategies to normalize the stress hormone axis in individuals with depression unresponsive to extensive pharmacologic and psychological treatments.
PUBLIC POLICY
TIMOTHY STANTON
Emeritus Director of Stanford Program in Cape Town
Research: Public health policy enactment; Connections between public health policy and education; University-assisted community development, Local and regional public decision-making; Faculty development through service-learning.
Countries: South Africa
