Sandra Adell
Professor
Afro-American Studies
Office Phone: 263-1642
Email: saadell@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Black literature, modern narrative, literary theory and criticism, continental French literature and philosophy of the twentieth century.
Linda Baumann
Professor Emerita
School of Nursing
Email: ljbauman@wisc.edu
Florence Bernault
Professor
History
Office Phone: 263-5424
Email: bernault@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Culture and politics in Central Africa. Research in Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Niger, and Senegal.
Matthew Bershady
Professor
Astronomy
Office Phone: 265-3392/262-3071
Email: mab@astro.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). Research in South Africa.
Henry Bunn
Professor
Anthropology
Office Phone: 263-6854
Email: htbunn@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Human culture, archeology. Paleontological and archeological research in Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, and Somalia
Emily Callaci
Assistant Professor
Email: ejcallaci@wisc.edu
Academic Interests: Postcolonial Africa, Tanzania, East Africa, African Urban History, Gender and Sexuality, Popular Culture
Michael Chamberlain
Professor
History
Office Phone: 265-2673
Email: mchamber@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Medieval and modern Middle East. Research in Egypt.
Jean-Paul Chavas
Professor
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Office Phone: 261-1944
Email: jchavas@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Food policy reform. Research in Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Tunisia
Bruce M Christensen
Professor
Pathobiological Sciences
Office Phone: 262-3850
Email: christensen@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Parasitology and Medical Entomology; Mosquito; Parasite Interaction and Pathogenesis. Research in Egypt
James H Conway
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
Office Phone: 263-9941
Email: jhconway@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: HIV education; immunization training. Research in Uganda.
Kelley Conway
Associate Professor
Communications Arts
Office Phone: 263-3977
Email: kelleyconway@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Francophone film, gender and cinema, African film.
Dustin Cowell
Professor
African Languages and Literature
Office Phone: 262-5886
Email: dccowell@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Arabic Language and Literature; Medieval Arabic Poetry and Hispano-Arabic Studies. Research in Tunisia, Mauritania and Egypt.
James Delehanty
Distinguished Faculty Associate
African Studies Program
Office Phone: 262-4458
Email: jmdeleha@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Historical geography, cultural ecology, land use change in Africa. Research in Niger and Kenya.
Henry Drewal
Professor
Art History
Office Phone: 263-9362
Email: hjdrewal@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: African and African Diaspora art, artistic traditions of the African diaspora in Brazil. Research in Nigeria, South Africa, Benin, Togo, Senegal, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and India
Nevine El-Nossery
Assistant Professor
French and Italian
Office Phone: 262-7940
Email: elnossery@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Francophone literatures and postcolonial studies; French Canadian literature; women and exile. Research on North Africa.
Samuel England
Assistant Professor
African Languages & Literature
Email: sengland2@wisc.edu
Academic research interests: Classical Arabic poetry, creative prose, and rhetoric; medieval court cultures of the Middle East and the western Mediterranean; modern Arabic literature; al-Andalus and Spain. Research in Egypt, the Maghreb, Spain, and Turkey.
Jo Ellen Fair
Professor
Journalism and Mass Communications
Office Phone: 263-2199
Email: jefair@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: International communications and the foreign press, media in developing countries. Research in Nigeria, Ghana, Namibia, Senegal, and Zambia.
John Ferrick
Director
International Agriculture Programs
Office Phone: 265-3705
Email: jferrick@cals.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Experience in Uganda.
Jeremy Foltz
Associate Professor
Agricultural and Applied Economics
Office Phone: 262-6871
Email: jdfoltz@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Macroeconomics of technology adoption, agricultural biotechnology, property rights, land use, and economic development. Research in Tunisia.
Jay (John) Gallagher
Professor
Astronomy
Office Phone: 263-2456
Email: jsg@astro.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
Tony L. Goldberg
Professor
Pathobiological Sciences
Office Phone: (608) 890-2618
Email: tgoldberg@vetmed.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Ecology‚ epidemiology, and evolution of infectious disease. Research in Uganda.
Monica Grant
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Email: grantm@ssc.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Demography and sociology of economic change and development, education, and gender in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Jonathan Gray
Professor
Communication Arts
Office Phone: 263-2541
Email: jagray3@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Film, television, and music circulation and reception in Malawi
Mary A. Hark
Associate Professor
Design Studies
Office Phone: 262-2651
Email: hark@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Fiber/Textile design. Research in Ghana.
Margaret Hawkins
Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Office Phone: 263-4667
Email: mhawkins@education.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Sociocultural and sociopolitical approaches to languages and literacy.
Cynthia Jasper
Professor
Department of Consumer Science
Office Phone: 262-2384
Email: crjasper@wisc.edu
Website
Richard C Keller
Associate Professor
Medical History and Bioethics
History of Science
Office Phone: 263-7378
Email: rkeller@med.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Psychiatry and madness in colonial Africa; the history of modern psychiatry. Research in Tunisia and Algeria.
Nancy Kendall
Associate Professor
Educational Policy Studies
Office Phone: 262-1760
Email: nkendall@education.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Comparative education; education and democratization; gender studies; HIV/AIDS education. Research in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Heinz Klug
Professor
Law School
Office Phone: 262-7370
Email: klug@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Constitutional, public, international, human rights, South African environmental, and post-apartheid law. Research in South Africa and Botswana.
Neil Kodesh
Associate Professor
History
Office Phone: 263-2395
Email: kodesh@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: East African history. Research in Uganda, Tanzania.
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Office Phone: 263-1006
Email: gjladson@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Multicultural education. Social studies in elementary education
Luis Madureira
Professor
Spanish and Portuguese
Office Phone: 262-4969
Email: lmadurei@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Post- colonial literatures. Research in Mozambique.
Anne McClintock
Professor
English
Office Phone: 263-1102
Email: amcclintock@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Gender studies and theories of sexuality; colonial and postcolonial literature and culture; world literature. South Africa.
Gregg Mitman
Professor
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Office Phone: 262-1723; 265-5296
Email: gmitman@med.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Environmental history, history of science and medicine, science and film. Research in Liberia.
Lisa Naughton
Professor
Geography
Office Phone: 262-4846
Email: lnaughto@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Forest and wildlife conservation and management policy. Research in Uganda and Kenya.
Larry Nesper
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Office Phone: 265-1992
Email: lnesper@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Research in culture and identity, ethnicity, ethnohistory, political and legal anthropology, social and religious movements. Research in Senegal.
John Nimis
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: jnimis@wisc.edu
Academic research interests: Congolese Popular Music; African Literature; Francophone Africa; Literary and Music Theory; Cinema and Popular Culture; research in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rob Nixon
Professor
English
Office Phone: 263-3005
Email: rdnixon@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Postcolonial literatures and theory; nonfiction; African literature; cultural studies; environmentalism; literature on empire; critical theory. Research in South Africa.
James Mukasa Ntambi
Professor
Biochemistry
Office Phone: 265-3700
Email: ntambi@biochem.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Human and animal nutrition. Research in Uganda.
Seth Ofori
Assistant Professor
African Languages and Literature
Office Phone: 262-6939
Website
Email: saofori@wisc.edu
Academic research interests: African linguistics. Akan literature and language. Research in Ghana.
Ogi Okwumabua
Clinical Professor
Pathobiological Sciences
Office Phone: 262-4168
Email: ogi.okwumabua@wvdl.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Pathobiological sciences; microbiology. Animal diseases. Research in Nigeria.
Tejumola Olaniyan
Professor
English
Office Phone: 262-8168
Email: tolaniyan@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: African and African diaspora literature. Literary theory. Research in the African diaspora.
Travis Pickering
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Office Phone: 262-5818
Email: tpickering@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Ecology and evolutionary biology of early hominids in South and East Africa. Research in South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia.
Thomas Popkewitz
Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Office Phone: 263-7343
Email: tspopkew@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Educational research and evaluation, educational reform/change, curriculum theory, teacher education. Research in South Africa.
Jess Reed
Professor
Animal Science
Office Phone: 263-4310
Email: reed@calshp.cals.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Livestock and crop production in agricultural development. Research in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, and Zimbabwe.
Catherine A. Reiland
Assistant Director
African Studies Program
Office Phone: 608.262.4461
Email: creiland@wisc.edu
Academic research interests: Religious performance, tourist productions, memory, and visual culture.
Andrew Reschovsky
Professor
La Follette School of Public Affairs
Office Phone: 263-0447
Email: reschovsky@lafollette.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Public finance, tax policy, financing education. Research in South Africa.
Ellen Sapega
Professor
Spanish and Portuguese
Office Phone: 262-3621
Email: ewsapega@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Lusophone colonial and post-colonial literature. Research in Cape Verde.
Michael Schatzberg
Professor
Political Science
Office Phone: 263-2392
Email: schatzberg@polisci.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Comparative politics (Africa), international politics. Research in Cameroon, Uganda, Kenya, and Congo.
Harold Scheub
Professor
African Languages and Literature
Office Phone: 263-5919
Email: hescheub@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: African oral traditions and written literatures. Research in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Uganda.
Gay Seidman
Professor
Sociology
Office Phone: 263-3887
Email: seidman@ssc.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Sociology of development in Southern Africa and Latin America, political sociology. Research in Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, and South Africa.
Ajay Sethi
Associate Professor
Population Health Sciences
Office Phone: 263-1756
Email: aksethi@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Infectious disease, antiretroviral therapy, alcohol and substance use. Research in Uganda.
Aliko Songolo
Professor
French and Italian
Office Phone: 262-6984/263-3891
Email: asongolo@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Francophone African, Caribbean, and Swahili literatures. African cinema, literary theory. Research in Tanzania and in francophone Africa including Cameroon, Burundi, Rwanda, Senegal, Congo, and the Caribbean.
Emilie Songolo
Academic Librarian
Memorial Library
Office Phone: 265-4740
Email: engo@library.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Social Sciences Librarian
Amy Stambach
Professor
Educational Policy Studies
Office Phone: 262-1714
Email: aestambach@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Gender and educational policy; cultural analyses; comparative and international education. Research in Tanzania.
Scott Straus
Professor
Political Science
Office Phone: 263-2036
Email: sstraus@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: African international relations, human rights. Research in Rwanda, Chad.
James Sweet
Professor
History
Office Phone: 265-2523
Email: jhsweet@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Research on the African Diaspora, Brazil, West and Central Africa.
Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis
Professor Emerita
Email: high@wisc.edu
Adrian Treves
Associate Professor
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Office Phone: 890-1450
Email: atreves@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Wildlife management and conservation. Environmental planning and monitoring. Research in Uganda.
Aili Tripp
Professor
Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies
Office Phone: 263-1873
Email: atripp@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Comparative politics (Africa), gender and politics. Research in Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia and Angola.
Matthew Turner
Professor
Geography
Office Phone: 262-2465/262-3657
Email: turner@geography.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Biogeography, cultural ecology, rangelands and livestock production systems in Africa. Research in Mali and Niger.
Anne Waliaula
Outreach Specialist
Office Phone: 265-9151
Email: awaliaula@wisc.edu
Academic research interests: Social Studies, Global Education, Multicultural and African Studies.
Claire Wendland
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Office Phone: 262-3874
Email: cwendland@wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Biomedicine in non-Western setting, cross-cultural ethics and communication. Research in Malawi.
Eric Wilcots
Professor
Astronomy
Office Phone: 262-2364/262-3071
Email: ewilcots@astro.wisc.edu
Website
Academic research interests: Southern African Large Telescope (SALT). Research in South Africa.