Interests: Madagascar, social and cultural anthropology, memory, gender, sexuality, transnational kinship, urban space, youth and intergenerational transformation, Christianity, African migration to Europe Selected publication: Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). |
Interests: Independent Africa; law; warfare; crime; politics of military regimes Selected publication: A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2020). |
Interests: modern political thought with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the history of international law, theories of empire and race, black political thought and post-colonial political theory |
Interests: African history; Middle Eastern history; race and ethnicity; religion; imperialism in East and Central Africa; the global nineteenth century; visual and material culture |
Interests: South Africa, literature and visual culture, drama and performance, urban studies, critical theory. Selected publication: Imagining the Edgy City: Writing, Performing and Building Johannesburg (Oxford University Press, 2013). |
![]() Interests: selfhood and otherness in post-2011 Francophone North African literature and aims to bring a critical perspective to aesthetic, political, and linguistic practices in the aftermath of the Arab Spring.
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Interests: Swahili and African linguistics, phonology and morphosyntax of Bantu languages, Swahili textbook development, Taarab music from East Africa and Zanzibar. Selected publication: [with Rachel Walker and Dani Byrd] “An Articulatory View of Kinyarwanda Coronal Harmony,” Phonology 25, no. 3 (2008): 499-535. |
Interests: Language evolution, with special attention to creole language varieties, African-American English, and colonial Englishes. Mufwene also works on semantics, lexicography, pragmatics, and Bantu morphosyntax. Selected Publication: Editor, with Cécile Vigouroux, Globalization and Language Vitality: Perspectives from Africa (London: Continuum Press, 2009). |
Interests: law and subjectivity, violence, social justice, incarceration, art, Rwanda. |
Interests: Contemporary francophone and world literature, critical race studies and decolonial theory, archipelagic studies, environmental humanities (including oceanic humanities), and medical humanities. |
Interests: Precolonial states, Francophone Africa, gender, colonialism, technology transfer and diffusion, aluminum, material culture, artisinal production and labor. Selected Publication: Our New Husbands Are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011). |
Interests: Afro-Cuban religious formations, the Atlantic world, systems of slavery and unfree labor, constructions of race and ethnicity, historical representation, knowledge production, conceptions of embodiment and moral personhood, genomics, and the anthropology of food and cuisine. Selected Publication: The Cooking of History: How Not to Study “Afro”-“Cuban” “Religion” (University of Chicago Press, 2013). |
Interests: West Africa (Senegal), Atlantic World, historical anthropology, archaeology, politics, rural mobility, missionaries, material culture. Selected Publication: “Political Transformations and Cultural Landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic Era: An Alternative View From the Siin” |
Interests: Policing; governance; migration; mobility; post-coloniality; the state in Africa; the politics of representation; conceptions of xenophobia; Southern Africa, especially Zimbabwe and South Africa. |
Interests: Social and legal history of 19th and 20th century South Africa; African history; urban studies; history of race; colonialism and Black freedom struggles |
Interests: Demography, Sociology of religion, Social dimensions of the AIDS epidemic Selected Publication: Religion and AIDS in Africa (with Alexander Weinreb, Oxford University Press 2012) |