FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French, Wolof, Joola, Arabic.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cultural pluralism and the democratization process in Africa countries, especially Senegal.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Advancing Beyond Semi-Democracy in Senegal: A Fair Electoral Code Does not a ‘Full' Democracy Make," The Democratic Challenge in Africa: Discussion Papers from a Seminar on Democratization, 1994; "Patrimonial Democrats: Incremental Reform and the Obstacles to Consolidating Democracy in Senegal," Canadian Journal of African Studies, (forthcoming).
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French, Tumbuka, Creole, Nyanga.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Anthropology; social change; systems of belief; agricultural policies; a regional specialization in West and Central Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Zambia and Malawi.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, co-ed, forthcoming; Paths of Violence in Africa, forthcoming; Social Construction of the Past, co-ed., 1994; "Living with Spirits: Death and Afterlife in African Religions," 1992; "Living on the Edge of Structural Adjustment in the Context of AIDS," with Joan Vincent, 1991.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: German, French.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Animal ecology, animal behavior, socioecology, social behavior, primatology, tropical rain forests, tropical Africa, conservation.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Reasons for reconciling: an alternative view of ‘alternative hypotheses'," Evolutionary Anthropology; "The Comparative Evolution of Conflict Resolution," (Ed.), Piaget, Evolution, and Development; "Agonistic and Affiliative Relationships in a Blue Monkey Group," Old World Monkeys; "Friendships, Alliances, Reciprocity and Repair," Machiavellian Intelligence II.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French, Spanish.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Population studies relating to migration, fertility, morbidity, urbanization, development, and health services and the use of computers and statistical programs in demographic analysis. Area interests have been in West and Central Africa with a focus on Mali and Senegal.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Third World City: Development Policy and Issues," Urbanization, Migration and Development, 1992; "Circulation as a Drought Coping strategy in Rural Mali," Population Distribution and Migration in Developing Countries, 1992; "Addressing the Health Transition Research Agenda: Can We Connect Findings with Action?" Advancing Health in Developing Countries: The Contributions of Social Research, 1992; Famille, Communaute et Migration: Une Etude des Strategies Alternatives dans la Vallee du Flava Sénégal, (forthcoming); "Towards a Contextual Model of the Health Transition," Measurement and Methodologies for Studying the Health Transition, 1991.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Wolof, French.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Language and identity in francophone African literature.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Gan Ganale! Wolof Phrase Book for Travelers, Language library, 1995; La Lecture Expliquee en Classe de Sizieme et Cinquieme, in Le Bulletin du Professeur, 1988; Tradition et Modernite, dans L'Oeuvre de Camara Laye; L'Enfant Noir, in Devoir, 1986.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Zulu.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Reading, poetry writing in English and Zulu. Quantitative research and evaluation in International Educational Development, education and the development of Nations.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Women and Development: From the Periphery to the Center", City and Regional Planning Conference, Cornell University, April 1993; "Redressing Women's Triple Oppression at the Adolescent Stage", Transformations: Women and Change in South Africa Conference, 7th and 8th April 1995, Teachers College, Columbia University.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French, Kiswahili, Spanish.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: : African history; asylum and social order in Zimbabwe, gender and social order in Zimbabwe.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Stray Women and Girls on the Move: Gender, Space and Disease in Colonial Zimbabwe", in coming work by Paul Zeleza and Ezikiel Kalepeni (ed.), Space, Culture and Society in Africa, 1991; "Colonial Frames of Mind: Mad Migrants, Bad Women and the State in Southern Rhodesia", presented at the African Studies Association Conference, Boston, 1994.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Spanish, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Italian.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Religion and Politics, Authoritarism, Military Regimes, Transitions to democracy, North Africa, West Africa, Southeast Asia.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Islam and Politics of Resistance In Algeria: 1783- 1992, (forthcoming); "The Politics of Non-Indigenous Merchants in Africa and Asia," (forthcoming); "Race, Islam and Politics: The Differing Views of Malcom X and Louis Farrakhan," (forthcoming).
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Spanish, German.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern African political thought; American interest in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries; Area specializations in West Africa, particularly Nigeria, as well as Caribbean peoples and cultures.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Edward Whelmed Blyden, 1967; The Black Urban Condition, 1973; Black Africa, 1973; Black American Radicals and the Liberation of Africa, 1978; Selected Writings of Edward Whelmed Blyden, 1978; K.O. Mbadiwe: Modern Nigerian Politician and Statesman (forthcoming); Editorial Advisor: Greenwood Press Book Series, Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Spanish, Portuguese.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Political science; cultures in conflict; comparative social movements, nation-state building. A regional specialization in Southern Africa, particularly South Africa.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Race-making and the Nation-State, 1996; "Contested Citizenship", International Review of Social History, 1995; "The State, Economy and Self-Determination in South Africa," The Lessons of Struggle: South African Internal Opposition, 1960-1990, 1992; "International Intervention in South Africa: The Difficult Transition to Development Assistance," Journal of International Affairs, 1992; "Race, Nation and Class-Based Ideologies of Recent South African Internal Opposition," Comparative Politics, 1991; "South African Black Trade Unions as an Emerging Working Class Movement," Journal of Modern African Studies, 1989.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Wolof, Serer, Malinke, French.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Commerce and commerçants in Occidental Africa; population movements in Senegal; economic and social history of the Gambia; Gambian and Senegalese relations; Senegal agrarian systems.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "La Terre ne ment pas: Exploitation de donées imparfaites sur l'agriculture ouest-africains," 1995; "Population et Développement: Perspectives Historiques de la Population du Sénégal," 1994; "Quelle Politique?" 1992; "La crise trentenaire de l'économie arachidiére," 1992; "The Politics of Independence in Sénégal, 1960-1986," 1991; "L'évolution demographique regionale du Sénégal et du Bassin Arachidier (Sine-Saloum) au Xxe siecle (1904-1976)," collaboration, 1986.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Africaans, French, German.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Literary theory; feminism and women's writing; colonial and third world culture.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Imperial Leather, 1995. Simone de Beauvoir, 1987; "Azikwela (We Will Not Ride)"; "Politics and Value in Black South African Poetry," 1987; "Maidens and Mines: Colonial Space and the Female Body," 1987; "No Names Apart: the Separation of Word and History in Derrida's Le Dernier Mot du Racisme," 1986.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Kiswahili.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Benchi, Ufumbuzi, Jira La Vuli, 1988; Hadithi Ya Utekwaji wa Mwafrika Katika Karne ya Kumu ya Kikristo, 1988.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Xhosa, Afrikaans, French.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: African Literature and Film; Caribbean Literature; Post-colonial Literature and Theory; Twentieth Century British Literature.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond, 1994; London Calling: V.S. Naipaul and the License of Exile, 1992; Monographs: Nadine Gordimer; Essays: "Pipedreams: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Minority Rights, and Environmental Justice"; "Bessie Head and the End of Exile"; "Of Balkans and Bantustans"; "Ethnic Nationalism, Cultural Imperialism, and the Outlawing of TV under Apartheid"; "Life Beyond the Censors: The Literary Prospects in Eastern Europe and South Africa"; "Apartheid on the Run--the South African Sports Boycott"; "Mandela, the Media and Messianism".
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Economic development in Africa, economic development in the Third world.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "The World Bank's Fundamental Misconception in Africa," Journal of Modern African Studies, 1996; "Structural Adjustment in Africa: A Failing Grade So Far", Journal of Modern African Studies, 1994; "A Dissenting Perspective on the African Economic Crisis", University of Pennsylvania (seminar), January 30, 1989; Report on training for primary health care in Africa, (co-author), 1988.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French, Malagasy.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Sub-Saharan Africa; Indian Ocean; medical anthropology, comparative medical systems, cross-cultural psychiatry, political economy of tropical and occupational health, medical ethics.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Anthropology of Work Review, forthcoming; The Possessed and the Dispossessed, 1993; "Royal Difficulties: A Question of Royal Succession in an Urbanized Sakalava Kingdom," The Journal of Religion in Africa, invited submission for the special volume on "Madagascar,"; "Spirit Possession as a Creative Survival Strategy for Migrants in Northwest Madagascar," solicited by POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review; "The Work Ideology of Malagasy Children: "Schooling and Survival in Urban Madagascar".
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Mossi, French.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cultural and historical roots of Afrocentricity; democracy in Africa; ethnic relations in British Guyana; effects of European contact on the Mossi people of French West Africa; urbanization in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta; general anthropology; political organization; ethnology; religion; race relations.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "The Transnationalization of Ethnicity and World Politics," A Conference Report for The Ralph Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University, 1995; "Traditional Institutions and Economic Development," Development strategies in Africa,ed. Aguibou Y. Yansane; African Americans and United States Policy Toward Africa, 1850-1924: Protecting the Black Nationality, 1992; Sources of the African Tradition, (forthcoming).
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: Afrikaans, German, French.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS; perinatal epidemiology; epidemiology of neurodevelopmental disorders in disadvantaged children (mental retardation, Down's Syndrome); the impact of famine and prenatal nutrition on mental competence.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: "Nonoxynol-9 and the reduction of HIV transmission in women,"AIDS, 1992; "Genetic risk factors for prenatally acquired HIV-1 infection," Paid Paranoid Epidemiol, (with others), 1992; Caffeine and spontaneous abortion of known karotype, Epidemiology, (with others), 1991; Conception to Birth: Epidemiology of Prenatal Development, with J. Kline and M.W. Susser, 1989.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: French, Kipende, German.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende, (forthcoming); "Suspected of Sorcery," In Pursuit of History: African Fieldwork, ed. Jan Vansina and Carolyn Keyes Adenaike, (forthcoming); "Invention and Reinvention in the Traditional Arts," African Arts (Spring 1995); Catalogue entries on Pende art for Africa: The Art of a Continent, 1995; Catalogue entries on Pende art for Treasures from the Africa-Museum (Tervuren), 1995.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES: German, French, Dutch.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS: Area specialization in Eastern and Southern African history, particularly Tanzania and Zambia; colonialism and imperialism; social history; gender and health.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Strategies of Slaves and Women: Life Stories from East/Central Africa, 1993; Women's Health and Apartheid, Co-editor, 1989; African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives, Co-editor, 1982; "East Africa, 1870-1905," Cambridge History of Africa, Vol. 6, 1985; Technology, Marriage and Women's Work in the History of Maize Growers in Mazabuka, Zambia, 1983; German Missions in Tanganyika, 1891-1941: Lutherans and Moravians in the Southern Highlands, 1971.