Field-Of-Study: African Studies

Richard Roberts is the Frances and Charles Field Professor in the History Department at Stanford University, where he has taught African history since 1980 and served as director of the Center for African Studies for nearly two decades.  His research has probed elements of social, economic, and legal change in French West Africa from the

Jennifer Cole is a cultural anthropologist whose research investigates how personal change over the life course shapes, and is shaped by, broader political, economic, and cultural transformations: the unruly terrain where person and history meet.  Drawing on intensive fieldwork in Madagascar and now in France, her work addresses these issues by studying social memory, youth

Luise White is professor of history at the University of Florida, where she has taught since 1998.  Trained in Great Britain in the era of Thompsonian social history, she spent most of her career researching and writing the social and cultural history of colonial East and Central Africa, using interviews to recuperate the lives and

Elisha P. Renne is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation research focused on marriage practices, textile production, and gender relations in southwestern Nigeria (Ph.D., Anthropology, New York University, 1990) and formed the basis for her first book, Cloth That

I was born and raised in Ziguinchor, one of the most multicultural towns in Senegal. I grew up with over ten ethnic groups from different religious backgrounds (Muslim, Christian, and followers of traditional African religions). Speaking several languages and celebrating together Christian, Muslim, and African traditional religious events were the norm in my neighborhood. My

With the support of the Guggenheim Foundation, Adeline Masquelier will spend the 2010-11 academic year writing a book on the place of religion among young Nigerien men. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the provincial town of Dogondoutchi over the past decade, she will document what being Muslim and being young means for Nigerien male

A Professor of both History and Anthropology and Director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center at UCLA, Andrew Apter is noted for his interdisciplinary approach to African and African American studies in such groundbreaking monographs as Black Critics and Kings: The Hermeneutics of Power in Yoruba Society (1992), The Pan-African Nation: Oil and

Ingrid Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music at Harvard University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Music and African and African American Studies. She is former chair of the Music Department and became a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow of Harvard University in 2008. Ms. Monson is the author

John Wallace Nunley is the inaugural Morton D. May Curator of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Saint Louis Art Museum, and an adjunct professor at the University of Washington at St. Louis. He received his B.A. (1967), M.A. (1972), and Ph.D. (1976) from the University of Washington at St. Louis.