Africa Initiative

People

People

Faculty Affiliates

  • Victor Alabi

    Victor Alabi

    Visiting Lecturer in Language Studies
    victor_alabi@brown.edu
    Research Interests Yoruba Discourse and Pedagogy, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Semiotics and Sociolinguistics in African Languages, Multilingualism and Media Discourse, African Linguistics
  • Geri Augusto

    Geri Augusto

    Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
    geri_augusto@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 9068
    Research Interests Indigenous and other subjugated knowledge systems, science and technology policy in the Global South, Black transnationalism and history of black resistance (USA, Southern Africa, Brazil), critical black geographies, transformation of higher education systems
  • Rob Blair

    Robert Blair

    Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
    robert_blair@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 9728
    Research Interests Peacekeeping, statebuilding, security sector reform, quantitative and experimental methods
  • Barrymore Bogues

    Barrymore Bogues

    Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
    +1 401 863 1782
    Research Interests African and African diaspora political theory, intellectual and cultural histories, African and Caribbean politics, Global South development issues, Caribbean Art, political economy of race, slavery and the history of capitalism
  • Nitsan Chorev

    Nitsan Chorev

    Harmon Family Professor of Sociology, Professor of International and Public Affairs
    nitsan_chorev@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 7698
    Research Interests Global Health, Foreign Aid, International Organizations, Globalization, Neoliberalism
  • Omar Galarraga

    Omar Galarraga

    Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
    omar_galarraga@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 2331
    Research Interests Health economics: incentives for behavioral change, evaluation of health systems reform, applying rigorous quasi-experimental approaches to estimate effects of health interventions, microsimulation and economic evaluation of public health programs
  • Patrick Heller

    Patrick Heller

    Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
    patrick_heller@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 5357
    Research Interests Development, Globalization, social theory, democratization, governance, urban transformation
  • Nancy Jacobs

    Nancy Jacobs

    Professor of History
    nancy_jacobs@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 9342
    Research Interests South Africa, colonial Africa, the environment, animals, knowledge about the environment and animals

  • Samwel Luhaga

    Graduate Student, Center for Language Studies
    samwel_luhaga@brown.edu
  • Don Operario

    Don Operario

    Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    don_operario@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 6657
    Research Interests HIV, mental health, and related health issues (substance use, structural violence, access to services) in historically marginalized populations
  • Daniel Jordan Smith

    Daniel Jordan Smith

    Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Africa Initiative
    daniel_j_smith@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 1938
    Research Interests Nigeria, Africa, Development, medical anthropology, gender, population processes, infrastructure, corruption
  • Michael White

    Michael White

    Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor of Population Studies, Professor of Sociology, Director of Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences Sociology
    michael_white@brown.edu
    +1 401 863 1083
    Research Interests Migration and population distribution: from urban residential segregation, to rural-urban migration in developing societies, to contemporary international migration and immigrant assimilation

Postdoctoral Fellows