The Michigan State University African Studies Center has over a hundred Core Faculty with experience on Africa, probably one of the largest in the nation. The Center features many scholars in social science, agricultural economics, African languages, the arts and humanities, education, health and medicine and many other fields.
The faculty members are listed alphabetically by college and departmental affiliation, noting geographical areas of Africa experience, and teaching and research interests.
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Emine Evered
Department: History
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Biography: As a historian of the Middle East and North Africa, Emine Evered specializes in analyzing late Ottoman and early nationalist accounts of education and public health as a means to understanding themes in modernization, nation-building, and ethno-religious particularization. As an historian of the Middle East and North Africa, Emine Ö. Evered specializes in analyzing late Ottoman and early nationalist accounts of education and public health as a means to understanding themes in modernization, nation-building, and ethno-religious particularization. She earned her PhD in History with a minor in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona. She also holds an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduate and undergraduate degrees from institutions in Turkey.
Amara Ezeamama
Department: Psychiatry
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Itziar Familiar-Lopez
Department: Department of Psychiatry
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Masako Fujita
Department: Anthropology Social Science
Countries/Research: Kenya
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Biography: Masako Fujita is a biological anthropologist specializing in contemporary human variation in micronutrient storage and metabolism. Masako's research focuses on the health and evolutionary implications of mother and offspring nutrition. Masako's research is a combination of epidemiological, biomarker and ethnographic methods to investigate biocultural pathways to malnutrition, particularly clarifying why some nutritional deficiencies and health issues persist today despite public health intervention efforts. Masako's work also evaluates the applicability of clinical nutrition and health research methods to anthropological studies in resource-poor, non-clinical settings.
Stephen P. Gasteyer
Department: Sociology
Countries/Research: Mali
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Biography: Dr. Stephen P. Gasteyer is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University. Dr. Gasteyer’s research focuses on the nexus between water, land, community development. Specifically, his research currently addresses: 1) community capacity development and civic engagement through leadership training; 2) the political and social processes that enable or hinder community access to water and land resources, specifically (but not exclusively) in rural communities; 3) the class and race effects of access to basic services (water, sanitation, food, health care); 4) community capacity, community resilience and water systems management; 5) the impacts of greening in economically depressed small cities; 6) the community aspects of bioenergy development; 7) international social movements and community rights to basic services; and 8) facilitating cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary partnerships to address water and land resources management.
Jacqueline Gerson
Department: Earth And Environmental Sciences
Countries/Research: Senegal; Kenya; Ghana
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Ramjee Ghimire
Department: Institute for Global Health
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Peter Glendinning
Department: Department of Art, Art History, & Design
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Rob Glew
Department: CASID (Director)
Countries/Research: Burkina Faso; China; Ghana; Malawi; Mali; Niger; Nigeria; Tanzania; Senegal and South Africa
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Biography: Robert Glew is the director of the Center for Advanced Study of International Development and associate professor at Michigan State University. Dr. Glew has 25 years of experience working in African societies on issues of international development in the areas of coping and livelihood strategies, health, political and social change, education, and identity politics. He has taught courses on international development, cultural change, and socio-cultural diversity.
Bartolomeo Gorgoglione
Department: Fish Pathobiology & Immunology Laboratory, Dept. of Pathobiology & Diagnostic Investigation (CVM), Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife (CANR)
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