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Other Africanists
Adam Ashforth, Professor of Anthropology and Political Science, has published extensively on the issues of state formation and spiritual insecurity in South Africa. He is the author of several books, including Witchcraft, Violence and Democracy in South Africa which received the Melville J. Herskovits Award for the Best Book on Africa in 2005 and the 2006 Toyin Falola Africa Book Award.
Henry Bienen, President
of Northwestern and political scientist, has researched
governance and the role of the military in Tanzania, Kenya,
and Nigeria. He has also served as consultant on these issues
to numerous United States government agencies.
Virginia DeLancey
is a development economist; she has conducted research and taught
in Cameroon, Egypt, Somalia, and Nigeria on gender, rural credit,
agricultural policy, HIV-AIDS, and environmental issues.
LaRay Denzer, Visiting Scholar, history, specializes
in West African biography and social history. Her current interest
is a collective biographical study of four Nigerian women nationalists.
David Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits Library
of African Studies, is the curator of Northwestern’s Africana
collection.
Thomas Geraghty, law, has led the Bluhm Legal Clinic’s international
team project in Tanzania and Malawi.
Stephen Hill, Assistant
Director, Office of Fellowships, focuses on the interface between
Tanzanian music and nationalism, with special reference to the
Wamatengo in southwestern Tanzania. His work shows how music reflects
and aids the comprehension of new realities during periods of
broad social upheaval. His other research interests include the
role of gender in musical choices and how historical circumstances
may stimulate musical action.
Richard Iton, African-American studies, focuses
on American politics, African-American politics, the politics
of popular culture, and comparative politics and public policy.
Harvey Neptune, history, specializes in Latin
American and Caribbean history and the history of the African
diaspora.
Rebecca Shereikis, history and ISITA
coordinator, studies the French legal system in colonial Mali.
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