Clifton Crais (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Professor of History, History Department. Research interests: Political culture and violence, economic change and histories of vulnerability, cross-cultural encounters, comparative colonialism, subaltern biographies.
David Eltis (Ph.D., University of Rochester), Robert W. Woodruff Professor
of History, History Department. Research Interests: Early modern
Atlantic World, slavery and the slave trade, and establishing the
identities of captives sent to the Americas.
Jean-Hervé Jezequel (Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris),Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department and
Institute of African Studies. Research Interests: 20th Century African
Colonial and Post-Colonial History, West Africa, social history.
Sidney
Littlefield Kasfir (Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London), Associate Professor, Art History Department.
Research Interests: Art, ritual and representation, masking, colonial
and postcolonial urban art, West and East Africa.
Ivan
Karp (Ph.D., University of Virginia), National Endowment for
the Humanities Professor of Liberal Arts, Graduate Institute of
Liberal Arts. Research Interests: Social organization and social
change, politics of culture, anthropology of museums and exhibitions,
African systems of thought, social anthropology, social theory,
East Africa. Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship.
Corinne
A. Kratz (Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin), Professor, Institute
of African Studies and Anthropology Department. Research Interests:
Communication and culture, ceremony and performance, cultural history,
cultural politics, semiotics and symbolism, gender, museums and
cultural display, visual anthropology, East Africa. Co-Director
of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship.
Christine
Loflin (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), Associate Professor,
Humanities Department, Oxford College of Emory. Research Interests:
Interdisciplinary course development, island landscapes in literature,
and gender issues in the novels of Bessie Head and Nadine Gordimer.
Kristin
Mann (Ph.D., Stanford University), Professor, History
Department. Research Interests: Social history, gender, law, marriage
and kinship, slavery and emancipation, economic transformation,
historical anthropology, West Africa.
Elizabeth McBride (A.M.
University of Chicago, M.S. Columbia University), Librarian for
African Studies.
Pamela F. Scully
(Ph.D., University of Michigan), Associate Professor, Women's
Studies and Institute of African Studies. Research Interests: Comparative
gender and women's history, slavery and emancipation, colonial cultures,
South Africa and British Empire.
Kate
Winskell (Ph.D.), Visiting Assistant Professor and Assistant
Director, Center for Health, Culture and Society, Department of
International Health, Rollins School of Public Health. Research
Interests: HIV/AIDS communication, with a special focus on young
people in Africa. See web-site: Scenarios
from Africa.
Many associated faculty have conducted research in Africa;
others work on comparative topics related to African Diasporic communities,
development, health, education, and politics.
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Delores P. Aldridge
(Ph.D., Purdue University), Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology
and African-American Studies, Department of African American
Studies. Research Interests: Black studies, intergroup relations,
families, women and social change.
Dwight Douglas Andrews (Ph.D.,
Yale University), Associate Professor of Music, Music Department.
Research Interests: Music of the African diaspora.
Abdullahi An-Na'im (Ph.D.,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland), Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law School.
Research Interests: Constitutionalism in Islamic and African countries, Islam and politics, Islam and human rights, and human rights in cross-cultural perspectives.
George Armelagos
(Ph.D., University of Colorado), Professor of Anthropology, Department
of Anthropology. Research Interests: Diet and disease in prehistoric
and ancient Sudanese Nubia; race and racism.
Peggy F. Barlett
(Ph.D., Columbia University), Professor of Anthropology, Department
of Anthropology. Research
Interests: Agrarian transformation; changing gender roles in
industrial and industrializing societies, economic and ecological
anthropology.
Courtney Brown (Ph.D.,
Washington University), Associate Professor of Political Science,
Department of Political Science. Research Interests: Developmental
democracy, politics and the environment.
Rudolph Byrd
(Ph.D., Yale University), Associate Professor, Graduate
Institute of Liberal Arts. Research Interests: Nineteenth and
twentieth century American and African-American literature.
Leroy Davis, Jr.
(Ph.D., Kent State University), Associate Professor of
History, History Department. Research Interests: Comparative education,
especially British colonial African and African-American.
Noel Erskine (Ph.D.,
Union Theological Seminary), Associate Professor of Theology and
Ethics, Candler School of Theology. Research Interests: African
religions; African spirituality.
Benjamin Z. Freed (Ph.D., Washington
University, 1996), Lecturer, Department of Anthropology. Research
Interests: Primate ecology, social organization and evolution,
conservation, Madagascar, Laos.
Benjamin Hary (Ph.D.,
University of California-Berkeley), Associate Professor of Hebrew
and Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies. Research Interests: Judeo-Arabic
language and linguistics, Jews of Egypt and North Africa, Arabic
dialectology.
Melvin J. Konner
(Ph.D. and M.D., Harvard University), Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
of Anthropology, Department
of Anthropology. Research Interests: Human behavioral biology
and reproductive adaptation, African hunters and gatherers,
human life cycle.
Scott Lacy.
(Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara), Marjorie Shostak Lecturer, Department of Anthropology. Research Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, rural poverty and hunger, farming families and communities, development, knowledge production, US-Africa policy; Mali, West Africa.
Emmanuel Yartekwei Lartey (Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK, 1984), Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling, Candler School of Theology and Graduate Division of Religion . Research Interests: pastoral care, counseling, and theology in different cultural contexts, with particular reference to African, British, and American expressions.
Jan Love (Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1983), Dean and Professor of Christianity and World Politics. Dr. Love's research interests include community development, justice advocacy and international conflict resolution.
Deborah McFarland
(Ph.D., University of Tennessee), Associate Professor, School of
Public Health. Research Interests: Health care financing and health
systems reforms in poorer nations, economic evaluation of preventive
and primary health interventions, economic burden of disease.
David S. Pottie (Ph.D., York University, Toronto, 2000), Senior Program Associate, Democracy Program, The Carter Center. Research interests: global elections assistance, state-civil society relations and civil society capacity building.
Sita Ranchod-Nilsson (Ph.D. Northwestern University), Director, Institute for Developing Nations. Research Interests: gender and women's politics, nationalism, contemporary diasporas and transnational social movements. regional specialization: sub-Saharan Africa.
Rosemary Gay Robins
(Ph.D., University of Oxford), Professor of Art History, Art History
Department. Research Interests: Ancient Egyptian art, gender
in ancient Egypt.
Richard Rubinson
(Ph.D., Stanford University), Professor of Sociology, Department
of Sociology. Research Interests: Political economy of development
and underdevelopment, comparative education.
Jim Setzer (M.P.H.,
Tulane University), Senior Associate, School of Public Health.Research
Interests: Organization and delivery of health services, financing
of health services, health policy, health information systems.
Theophus H. Smith
(Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union), Associate Professor of Religion,
Religion Department. Research Interests: Christian studies, African-American
spirituality, religion and violence.
Debra Spitulnik (Ph.D.,
University of Chicago), Associate Professor, Department of Anthropologyt.
Research Interests: Linguistic anthropology, urban anthropology,
mass media and popular culture, nationalism and national identity,
sociolinguistics, semiotics, Southern Africa.
Devin J. Stewart
(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Arabic
and Near Eastern Studies. Research Interests: North African history;
Egyptian popular culture.
Gordon Streeb (Ph.D.,
University of Minnesota), Associate Executive Director for Peace
Programs, The Carter Center.
Carol M. Worthman
(Ph.D., Harvard University), Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Anthropology,
Department
of Anthropology. Research Interests: Biocultural approaches to
human development, reproduction and behavior, East Africa.
