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Faculty Research Areas: Africa

Center for International Research faculty have expertise in many research areas about Africa, from medicine to performing arts.

Diane Ciekawy

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  • Political Anthropology
  • Religion
  • The Anthropology of Healing
  • Colonialism
  • Human Rights
  • Development and Underdevelopment
  • Africa

Catherine Cutcher

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  • Comparative and International Education
  • International Development
  • Anthropology & Sociology
  • Cultural Studies
  • Africa
  • Swahili language and culture
  • Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Diversity Studies (race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, language, culture, religion)

Geoffrey Dabelko

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  • Environmental Studies
  • Climate change, natural resources, and security as well as environmental pathways to confidence- and peace-building, with a special emphasis on water resources.

Araba Dawson-Andoh

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  • Subject Librarian, African Studies and Social Sciences
  • African Studies
  • African/Asian Languages
  • Development Studies
  • Geography
  • Media Arts & Studies
  • Government Documents

Andrea Frohne

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  • African art history
  • Contemporary visual culture, traditional arts, and cinema of the African world
  • Transnational, global, postcolonial, and indigenous knowledge theories

Gillian Ice

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  • Aging with a focus on grandparent caregiving in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, geriatrics, cultural competence and global health

Brandon Kendhammer

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  • Comparative Politics
  • African Politics
  • Democratization
  • Muslim Politics
  • Politics and Culture

Caroline Kingori

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  • Sexual health, HIV/AIDS, stigma and other sexually transmitted infections
  • Community based participatory research
  • Comorbidity of HIV and non-communicable diseases
  • Cervical cancer
  • Pregnancy expectations and experiences

Uzoma Miller

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  • Auto-Ethnography
  • Intersections of African-derived music forms and their penetration in public spaces
  • HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) Place-Consciousness
  • Africana Experiential Learning
  • Inclusive Pedagogy

Ghirmai Negash

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  • African literatures from the Horn of Africa and South Africa
  • Critical theory
  • Translation

Greg Obi

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  • African Leadership Issues
  • Comparative Leadership Paradigms
  • Cultural Impact on Management Practices
  • Gender and Minority Issues in Management
  • Technology Impact on Higher Education Teaching

Yegan Pillay

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  • The intersection of health psychology and mental health issues in the United States and a global context
  • Licensed by the Health Professions Council of South Africa

Assan Sarr

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  • Africa, modern period
  • West Africa, the Gambia and Senegal River basins
  • Social, political and environmental history; land tenure; peace and conflict

Thomas Smucker

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  • Environment and development
  • Rural livelihood systems
  • Food systems and food security
  • Adaptation to climate change
  • Environmental governance
  • African drylands

E. Edna Wangui

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  • Gender
  • Rural livelihoods and landscape change in East Africa

Paschal Younge

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  • Author, musician, multicultural music educator
  • African musical arts specialist, Ghanaian traditional music
  • Dance historian
  • Executive/music director, Azaguno Inc.