David S. Wiley (Michigan State University)

Submitted: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:15:15 -0500


David S. Wiley
Professor of Sociology
Director, African Studies Center
Michigan State University
100 International Center
East Lansing, Michigan  48824-1035   USA

phone:   517-353-1700 (office)
	 517-332-0333 (home)
fax:     517-432-1209
e-mail:  wiley@pilot.msu.edu

My current research concerns are: a) environment and development in Durban
(South Africa) as a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow in 1994-95 ; and, b) 
socio-economic aspects of the ecological crisis of Lake Victoria. 

(a) The Durban research concerns eight cases of negotiations between
communities, local authorities and government, and corporations over urban
environment issues in Inanda, Umlazi, Isipingo, Merebank, Wentworth
(Austerville), and the Bluff. 

(b) The Program on the Lakes of East Africa includes a major study of the
human impacts on the freshwater resources of Lakes Victoria and Malawi and
the impacts of changes in those resources on the human users and owners.

Previously I have conducted research on social stratification and religion
in Zimbabwe and Zambia; urbanization and housing in Zambia; scholars and
U.S. foreign policy toward Africa. 

Publications include:  Negotiating Environment and Development in South
Africa: Communities, Companies, and Government in South Durban (1996),
Southern Africa: Society, Economy and Liberation (1980, with A. Isaacman),
Group Portrait: International Education in the Academic Disciplines (1990,
with S. Groennings), The Third World: Africa (1984, with M. Crofts),
Africa on Film and Videotape (1982), African Language Instruction in the
United States: Directions and Priorities for the 1980s (1980, with D. 
Dwyer), and Academic Analysis and U.S. Foreign Policy-Making on Africa
(1991, with M. Bratton and L. Bowman).