African Studies Center Consortium
 

About the Consortium

The African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania is part of a four-school consortium that includes the University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. As part of this consortial arrangement, the African Studies Center receives funding from the United States Department of Education as a National Resource Center for teaching African area studies and languages at the undergraduate level.

The consortium promotes interdisciplinary instruction and research in African languages and area studies, and it is involved in vibrant exchange relationships with African institutions of higher learning across the continent. The four institutions have faculty members from a vast array of disciplines who teach, conduct research, and publish on Africa, and whose combined scholarly interests represent the entire African continent. An annual fall African Studies workshop draws scholars from throughout the northeast to Penn for a day-long presentation of papers focusing on recent developments in Africanist scholarship, issues, and debates. Throughout the academic year speakers are invited from a wide spectrum of disciplines, academic and civic institutions, and all parts of the world.

Below you will find a comprehensive list of Africanists affiliated with all four consortium schools. The first list is organized according to institution and department affiliation, and the second list includes brief biographical information for each Africanist, alphabetically listed by institution.

Consortium Faculty (Listed According to Departmental Affiliation)

University of Pennsylvania

Anthropology                                                                                     

Barnes, Sandra    

Huss-Ashmore, Rebecca

Kopytoff, Igor

Monge, Janet

Schurr, Theodore

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Silverman, David

Sharkey, Heather

Wegner, Josef W

 

Economics

Behrman, Jere                      

 

Education, School of

Maamouri, Mohamed, Assoc. Dir. International Literary Institute             

Wagner, Daniel A.              

 

English

Barnard, Rita        

Beavers, Herman

Clarke, Joe

 

Folklore               

Abrahams, Roger D

Ben-Amos, Dan          

History

Babou, Cheikh

Cassanelli, Lee     

Feierman, Steven

 

History and Sociology of Science

Foley, Ellen

Feierman, Steven

Kuklick, Henrika  

 

Linguistics

Liberman, Mark     

Medicine, School of

Alpern, Elizabeth

Ohene-Frempong, Kwaku  

Silberberg, Donald

 

Music

Muller, Carol Ann               

Ramsey, Guthrie

 

Nursing, School of

Gennaro, Susan

 

Political Science

Callaghy, Thomas

Kaiser, Paul          

 

Romance Languages

Moudileno, Lydie               

 

Social Work, School of

Estes, Richard      

 

Sociology and Demography

Ewbank, Douglas

Fetni, Hocine       

Van de Walle, Etienne

Watkins, Susan                   

Zuberi, Tukufu    

 

Wharton School

Hoek-Smit, Marja

Macmillan, Ian

Pack, Howard

 

Language Instructors

Amharic–Wogayehu, Afework

Igbo–Nwadiora, Emeka

Kiswahili–Mshomba, Elaine

Oshiwambo–Shipanga, Benjamin

Shona–Esau, Mavindidze

Twi-Ofosu-Donkoh, Kobina

Wolof–N’Diaye, Elhadji

Yoruba–Awoyale, Yiwola                  

Zulu-Mbeje, Audrey

 

Administrative Staff

Ali-Dinar, Ali B., Outreach Director

Cassanelli, Lee  Director

Kaiser, Paul, Assoc. Director

Mbeje, Audrey, Language Coordinator

Patterson, Faye, Program Coordinator

 

Library Staff

Olson, Lauris, Coordinator of Collections and African Studies Bibliographer

Bryn Mawr College

 

Anthropology

Kilbride, Philip L. 

 

English

Beard, Linda-Susan            

 

French

Higginson, Francis

 

History

Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio

Ngalamulume, Kalala

 

Political Science

Allen, Michael     

Ross, Marc Howard            

 

Sociology

Osirim, Mary J.    

Washington, Robert E.

 

Spanish

Lima, Lazaro

 

Language Instructor

Mshomba, Elaine

Haverford College

 

Biology

Okeke, Iruku N.

 

Economics

Ball, Richard J.                     

 

English

Mohan, Rajeswari               

 

French

Anyinefa, Koffi   

 

History

Jefferson, Paul C.

 

Political Science

Mortimer, Robert A.           

Ngwane, Zolani

Wing, Susanna

 

Religion

Hucks, Tracey E.

Swarthmore College

 

Economics

O’Connell, Stephen A.       

 

English 

James, Charles, Prof                            

 

French

Rice-Maximin, Micheline   

 

History

Burke, Timothy J.

 

Modern Language

Saltani, Bernoussi

 

Music and Dance

Friedler, Sharon                          

Political Science

Hopkins, Raymond F.         

 

Psychology

Leach, Colin Wayne           

 

Religion

Chireau, Yvonne 

 

Sociology

Willie, Sara Susannah

Ghannam, Farha

 

Studio Arts

Carpenter, Syd     

 

Theatre

Arrow, Kim David

 

 

 

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