CURRICULUM
VITAE OF CONSORTIUM FACULTY
1) Core Faculty: The following is a list of core faculty by disciplines, with current rank, tenure status (T = Tenure; U = Untenured), affiliation status (A = Associated), and percent of time committed to Africa.
A.
University of Pennsylvania Faculty
Anthropology
Barnes, Sandra, Professor (T) 100%
Huss-Ashmore, Rebecca, Associate Professor (T) 100%
Kopytoff, Igor, Professor (T) 100%
Mann, Alan, Professor (T) 20%
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Silverman, David, Professor (T) 100%
Wegner, Josef W., Asst. Prof. (U) 100%
Economics
Behrman, Jere, Professor (T) 10%
Education, School of
Maamouri, Mohamed, Assoc. Dir. NCAL (U) 100%
Wagner, Daniel A., Professor/Director (T) 25%
English
Barnard, Rita, Assoc. Prof. (T) 50%
Beavers, Herman, Assoc. Prof. (T) 25%
Engineering
Bird, Stephen, Adj. Assoc. Prof (U)
Folklore
Abrahams, Roger, Professor (T) 15%
Ben-Amos, Dan, Professor (T) 75%
History
Cassanelli, Lee, Assoc. Prof. (T) 100%
Feierman, Steven, Professor (T) 100%
History and Sociology of Science
Feierman, Steven, Professor (T) 100%
Kuklick, Henrika, Professor (T) 50%
Linguistics
Liberman, Mark, Professor (T)
Omar, Alwiya, Lecturer (U) 100%
Medicine, School of
Alpern, Elizabeth, Assoc. Prof. (U)(A)
Durbin, Dennis R., Assoc. Prof (U)(A)
Ohene-Frempong, Kwaku, Assoc. Prof. (T)(A)
Silberberg, Donald, Professor (T) (A)
Music
Muller, Carol Ann, Assoc. Prof. (U)
Ramsey, Guthrie P., Jr., Asst. Prof.(U)
Nursing
Thompson, Joyce, Professor (T) (A)
Political Science
Callaghy, Thomas, Professor (T) 100%
Romance Languages
Moudileno, Lydie, Asst. Prof. (U) 50%
Religious Studies
Washington, Joseph, Professor (T) 30%
Social Work, School of
Estes, Richard, Professor (T) 20%
Shoemaker, Louise, Professor Emeritus (T) 80%
Sociology and Demography
Ewbank, Douglas, Adj. Assoc. Prof./Director Africa Program (U) 50%
Fetni, Hocine, Assoc. Prof (U)
Fox, Renee, Professor Emeritus (T) 20%
van de Walle, Etienne, Professor (T) 50%
Watkins, Susan, Professor (T) 100%
Zuberi, Tukufu, Prof. (T) 100%
Wharton School
Hoek-Smit, Marja, Lecturer (U) 100%
Pack, Howard, Professor (T) 30%
Shropshire, Kenneth, Professor (T) 25%
2) Language Instructors
Language Tutors
Bambara -- Bamba, Moussa
Twi -- Ofosu-Donkoh, Kobina
Shona
-- Sibanda, Amson
3) Administrative Staff
Ali-Dinar, Ali B., Outreach Coordinator
Cassanelli, Lee, Director
Kaiser, Paul, Associate Director
Kershbaumer, Sr. Rose, Coordinator Africa Midwifery
Training Program
Olson, Lauris, Africana Librarian
Loose, Lynette, Program Coordinator
4) Library Staff
Olson, Lauris, Coordinator of Collections and Bibliographer
in charge of Africa Acquisitions
B. Bryn Mawr College Faculty
Anthropology
Kilbride, Philip L., Professor (T) 100%
English
Beard, Linda-Susan, Assoc. Prof. (U) 50%
Gunkel, Cassandra, Assoc. Prof (U)
Political Science
Allen, Michael, Assoc. Prof. (T) 90%
Ross, Marc Howard, Professor (T) 20%
Sociology
Osirim, Mary J., Assoc. Professor (T) 100%
Washington, Robert E., Assoc. Professor (T) 50%
2) Language Instructor
Swahili -- Mshomba, Elaine (U)
C. Haverford College Faculty
Economics
Ball, Richard J., Asst. Prof. (U) 25%
English
Mohan, Rajeswari, Asst. Prof. (U)
French
Anyinefa, Koffi, Assoc. Prof. (T) 25%
History
Jefferson, Paul C., Assoc. Prof. (T) 25%
Philosophy
Outlaw, Lucius T., Jr., Professor (T) 25%
Political Science
Glickman, Harvey, Professor (T) 100%
Mortimer, Robert A., Professor (T) 100%
Religion
Purpura, Allyson, Lecturer ( U)
D. Swarthmore College
Economics
O’Connell, Stephen A., Assoc. Professor (T) 100%
English
James, Charles, Professor (T)
French
Rice-Maximin, Micheline, Asst. Prof. (U) 25%
History
Burke, Timothy J., Asst. Prof. (U) 100%
Music and Dance
Friedler, Sharon, Assoc. Prof. (T) 20%
Political Science
Hopkins, Raymond F., Professor (T) 100%
Psychology
Leach, Colin Wayne, Asst. Prof (U)
Religion
Chireau, Yvonne, Asst. Prof. (U) 20%
Sociology
Willie, Sara Susannah, Asst. Prof. (U)
Studio Arts
Carpenter, Syd, Asst. Prof. (U)
Theatre
Arrow, Kim David. Instructor (U)
CURRICULUM VITAE
University of Pennsylvania
NAME: Abrahams, Roger D.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Hum Rosen Professor of Folklore and Folklife (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1985
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania, 1961
MA: Columbia University, 1959
BA: Swarthmore College, 1955:
CURRENT RESEARCH: Afro-American & African Folklore, and Popular Culture
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 9 books, 10 edited volumes, 100+ articles, and chapters, including:
Talking Black. Rowley, Massachusetts: Newbury House, 1976.
African Folktales. Pantheon, 1983
After Africa. (edited, with John Szwed), Yale University Press, 1983.
Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South. New
York: Pantheon Books, 1992
“Phantoms of Romantic Nationalism in Folklorists.” Journal of American Folklore106 (1993),
pp. 1-37.
“After New Perspectives: Folklore Study in the Late Twentieth Century,” special issue of
Western Folklore, ed. A.Shuman and C. Briggs, 52, pp.379-400. 1993
NAME: Alpern,
Elizabeth, R.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994
EDUCATION: M.D. University of Michigan (Cum Laude), 1992
B.A. University of Michigan,1987
CURRENT RESEARCH: Childhood disabilities in Africa; Social Work Utilization
in Pediatric Emergency Departments
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Selected
Pediatric Emergencies,” in J. Yassa., P.O. Brennen and S. Ludwig (Eds.) Self-
Assessment ColorReview of Pediatric Accident and Emergency Medicine. London: Manson Publishing (in press)
“Cervical Adenopathy” in S. Altschuler and S. Ludwig (Eds) Pediatrics at a Glance. Philadelphia: Current Medicine, Inc., 1998
“Hilar Adenopathy,” in M.W. Schwartz and L.M Bell (Eds.) Clinical Handbook of Pediatrics
(2nd Edition) Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1998.
NAME: Barnard, Rita
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, Department of English (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1990
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Duke University, 1990
MA: Duke University, 1980
BA: University of Stellenbosch, 1976
LANGUAGES: Dutch, Italian, Afrikaans, French
CURRENT RESEARCH: South African Literature, Post-colonial Literature,
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathaniel West and Mass Culture in the 1930s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Apartheid, Literature and the Politics of Place, Oxford University Press. (forthcoming)
“Dream Topographies: J. M. Coetzee and the South African Pastoral.” South African Quarterly (winter 1994)
“‘Imagining the Unimaginable’: Coetzee, History, and Autobiography.” Postmodern Culture 4 (September 1993).
NAME: Barnes, Sandra T.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Anthropology (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1973
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, 1974
MA: University of Wisconsin, 1970
BA: University of Denver,
LANGUAGES: German, Yoruba
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Nigeria: 1971-2, 1975, 1983, 1984, 1986; Sierra Leone
CURRENT RESEARCH: West Africa: Religion, Politics, History
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Ogun: An Old God for a New Age, Philadelphia: ISHI. 1980.
Patrons and Power: Creating a Political Community in Metropolitan Lagos,
Manchester University Press (UK) and Indiana University Press (US) for International African Institute, London, Amaury Talbot Book Prize. 1986.
Africa’s Ogun: Old World and New, Bloomington: Indiana University Press (edited). (paperback
and hardback, 1989), revised, expanded ed., 1997.
“The
Organization of Social and Cultural Diversity: An Historical Inquiry,” in Culture and
Contradiction: Dialects of Wealth, Power and Symbol, H. G. DeSoto (Ed),San Francisco: Mellen 243-57. 1996.
“Political Ritual and the Public Sphere in
Contemporary West Africa,” in The
Politics of Cultural Performance. D. Parkin, L. Caplan, Humphrey Fisher (Eds), Oxford: Berghahn. 1996.
NAME: Beavers, Herman
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1989
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Yale University, 1990
M.A.: Yale University, 1985 (Afro-American Studies)
M.A.: Brown University, 1983 (English)
B.A.: Oberlin College, 1981
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of James Alan McPherson and Ernest J. Gaines, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1995.
A Neighborhood of Feeling (poems), Louisville, KY: Doris Publications, 1986.“The Blind Leading the Blind: The Racial Gaze as Plot Dilemma in ‘Benito Cereno’ and Dust.”Memory and Cultural Politics: New Approaches to American Literature. Edited by Robert Hogan, Amritjit Singh, and Joseph T. Skerritt. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995, pp. 121-136.
NAME: Behrman, Jere R.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1965
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1966
B.A.Williams College, 1962
LANGUAGES: Russian
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Botswana, 1982; Tunisia, 1985; Morocco, 1985; Jamaica, 1988;
Ghana, Chile, South Asia, China and Bolivia.
CURRENT RESEARCH: Structural Adjustment, Poverty, North, and Southern Africa.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 20 books and monographs; 4 edited volumes; more than 10
articles:
Causes, Correlates and Consequences of Death Among Older Adults: Some Methodological Approaches and Substantive Analyses (with Sickles and Taubman) Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
The Social Benefits of Education (co-Ed. With Stacey) Ann Arbor: Michigan UP, 1997.“Women’s Schooling, Home Teaching and Economic Growth” (with Foster, Rosenzweig and Vashistha) Journal of Political Economy 1999
“Household Income and Child Schooling in Vietnam,” (with Knowles) World Bank Economic Review 1999
“Economic Considerations for Analysis of Child Development Programs,” Food and Nutrition Bulletin 20:1 1999
“Population and Reproductive Health: An Economic Framework for Policy Analysis,” (with Knowles) Population and Development Review 24:4, 1998
“Dynamic Savings Decisions in Agricultural Environments with Incomplete Markets,” (with Foster and Rosenzweig) Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 15:2 1997
NAME: Ben-Amos, Dan
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Folklore, & Folklife
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1971
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Indiana University, 1967
M.A.: Indiana University, 1964
B.A.: The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1961
LANGUAGES: Hebrew; French, German (reading), Edo (working knowledge.)
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Israel; Nigeria, 1965-66, 1973, and 1981
CURRENT RESEARCH: Edo (Benin), Folklore/African-Folklore specializations
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 2 books, 8 edited volumes, more than 50 articles including:
Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity (Ed. With Weissberg) Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1999.
“Midrasch,” Enzyklopadie des Marchens, 9, 1998
“The Name is the Thing,” Journal of American Folklore, 111, 1998
“Raphael Patai, 1910-1996” Journal of American Folklore, 110, 1997
Sweet Words: Storytelling Events in Benin, Philadelphia: ISHI, 1975
Folklore Genres (Ed). American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series, Vol. 26, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1976
NAME: Bird, Steven
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Associate Director, Linguistic Data
Consortium;
Associate
Professor, Computer and Information Science (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1998
EDUCATION: PHD. University of Edinburgh, 1990
M.Sc. University of Melbourne, 1987
B.Sc. University of Melbourne, 1981
LANGUAGES: French, Yemba, Bamileke
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Cameroon
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Computational Linguistics (with Klein) New York: Cambridge UP, 1999.
Petit Dictionnaire Yemba-Francais Doula: SIL, 1996
“When
marking tone reduces fluence: an orthography experiment in Cameroon. Language
and Speech (forthcoming)
“Representing tone in African writing systems,” Written Language and Literacy (forthcoming)
NAME: Callaghy, Thomas M.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Political Science (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1988
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, 1979
M.A.:University of California, Berkeley, 1969
A.B.:University of California, Davis, 1968
LANGUAGES: French
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Belgium, France, and Zaire, 1974-75
CURRENT RESEARCH: state formation in comparative historical perspective;
political economy of change in new and post-colonial states
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 2 books, 3 edited volumes and 37 articles including
Hemmed In: Responses to Africa’s Economic Decline (Co-Editor and contributor) NewYork: Columbia University, 1993
Culture and Politics in Zaire: Patrimonial Idioms (Ann Arbor: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan, 1987).
“Globalization and Marginalization: Debt and the International Underclass” Current History 96:613, 1997.
“Civil Society, Democracy, and Economic Change in Africa: A Dissenting Opinion about Resurgent Societies” in Civil Society and the State of Africa, Eds. Naomi Chazan, John W. Harberson, and Donald Rothchild (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1994) pp. 231-53
NAME: Cassanelli, Lee V.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, History (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1974
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin, 1973
MA: University of Wisconsin, 1969
BA: Boston College, 1967
LANGUAGES: Italian ,French German Somali, Swahili
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Italy; Somalia; Kenya:
CURRENT RESEARCH: Social history, ecology, oral tradition; East and Northeast Africa
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War behind the War (with Besteman) Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1982.
“Somali Land Resource Issues in Historical Perspective,” in Clarke and Herbst, eds., Learning from Somalia: Lessons in Armed Humanitarian Intervention. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997
NAME: Durbin, Dennis R.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology,
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.,
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994
EDUCATION: M.S. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1997
M.D. Northwestern University Medical School, 1987
B.A. University of Notre Dame, 1983
CURRENT RESEARCH: Pediatric services
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Development and Validation of the Injury Severity Assessment Survey/Parent Report: A New Injury Severity Assessment Survey,” (with F.K. Winston, S.M. Applegate, E.K. Moll, J. H. Holmes) Arch Pediatr Adol Med. (In press)
“Perianal Herpes-Zoster Presenting as Suspected Child Abuse,” (with C.W. Christian, M.L. Singer, J.E. Crawford, D.R. Durbin) Pediatrics 1997; 99(4):608—610
“The Effect of Insurance Status on Likelihood of Neonatal Interhospital Transfer,” (with A.P. Giardino, K.N. Shaw, M.C. Harris, J. H. Silber.) Pediatrics 1997; 100(3):381—382
“Residents on the Transport Team: Balancing Service and Education.” (with A.P. Giardino, and A.T. Costarino) Arch Pediatr Adol Med 1996; 150(5): 529—34
NAME: Estes, Richard J.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Sch. of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1973
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley 1973
P.G.: The Menninger Foundation 1968
M.S.W.: University of Pennsylvania
B.A.:Boston College, 1967
CURRENT RESEARCH: International and Comparative Social Development; Comparative
Social Welfare; Strategic and Long Range Planning; “Social
Development Trends in Africa” (1992-95)
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
At the Crossroads: Dilemmas in Social Development Toward the Year 2000 and Beyond New York: Praeger, in preparation. 1999
Trends in Social Development: The Social Progress of Nations 1970-1987. New York: Praeger,.
“Social Development Trends in the Successor States to the Former Soviet Union: The Search for a New Paradigm,” in Economies in Transition Nagoya: United Nations Centre for Regional Development, 1998
“Trends in World Social Development, 1970-1995,: Development Prospects for a New Century,”
Journal of Developing Societies 14: 1, 1998
“Social Work, Social Development and Community Welfare Centers in International
Perspective,” International Social Work 40: 1, 1997.
NAME: Ewbank, Douglas C.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Adjunct Professor, Sociology (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1982
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1975
M.A.:Princeton University, 1973
B.A.:Oberlin College, 1970
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Tanzania
CURRENT RESEARCH: Child survival /;mortality in suSaharan Africa; Alzheimer’s
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 40 articles including:
“Maternal diagnosis and treatment of children’s fever in an endemic malaria zone of Uganda: Implications for the malaria control programme.”(with B. Lubanga, S. Norman, and D. Karamagi) Accepted for publication in Acta Tropica.
Effects of Health Programs on Mortality in SuSaharan Africa with J. Gribble. (Editors) Washington: National Academy Press, 1993.
“Child Feeding Practices in a Rural Setting in Zimbabwe,” with S. Cosminsky, and M. Mhloyi, Social Science and Medicine, 36(7): 937-947, 1993.
NAME: Feierman, Steven
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor and Chair, History and Sociology of Science
and Professor, History (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1995
EDUCATION: D.Phil.: Oxford University, Anthropology, 1972
Ph.D.: Northwestern University, 1970
M.A.:Northwestern University, 1962
B.A.:Columbia University, 1961
LANGUAGES: Swahili, Shambaa , French German
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Tanzania
CURRENT RESEARCH: East Africa: Health and Medicine, Cultural History
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Peasant Intellectuals: Anthropology and History in Tanzania. Wisconsin UP,1990
African History, Second edition, fully revised. With Philip Curtain, Leonard Thompson, and Jan Vansina. Longman. 1995.
The Social Basis of Health and Healing in Africa. Co-edited with John Janzen. California UP 1992 “Colonizers, Scholars and the Creation of Invisible Histories,” in Hunt and Bonnell (Eds) Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture. California UP, 1999.
“African Histories and the Dissolution of World History,” Mitchell, et. al., (Eds) Taking Sides: Clashing Views of Controversial Issues in World Civilizations Dushkin, McGraw Hill, 1998.
“Explanation and Uncertainty in the Medical World of Ghaambo,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine (forthcoming)
NAME: Fetni, Hocine
TITLE/DEPARTMENT Lecturer, Department of Sociology
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1993
EDUCATION: Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1992
LL.M. University of Pennsylvania, 1981
LL.M. New York University, 1980
LL.B. Constantine University, 1977
LANGUAGES: Arabic
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Algeria
CURRENT RESEARCH: Law and Social Change in the Middle East; Corporation in Islamic
Law
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: Ph.D. Dissertation and Research:
Law and Development in the Third World: A Case Study of Algeria. 1992.
Law and Social change in the Middle East (current research)
Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East and North Africa (current research)
Political Instability and Laws of Investment in Algeria (current research)
NAME: Fox, Renée C.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Annenberg Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences, Sociology (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1969
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1954
B.A.: Smith College, 1949
LANGUAGES: French
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Zaire, Canada, Belgium, and France
CURRENT RESEARCH: The cosmological and sociological underpinnings of
medicine
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 8 books, 1 edited volume, and 65 articles including:
Spare Parts: Organ Replacement in American Society, NY: Oxford, 1992
The Sociology of Medicine: Participant Observer’s View, Englewood Cliffs,: Prentice Hall, 1989;
“Religious Movements
in Central Africa,” (with Jan Vansina and Willy de Craemer),Comparative
Studies in Society and History, 18, 4 (1976): 458-75
“Informed Consent in Africa,” The New England Journal of Medicine, 327, 15 (1992): 1101-110.
“Medical Humanitarianism and Human Rights: Reflections on Doctors Without Borders and Doctors of the World,” Social Science Medicine, Vol. 41, No. 12 (1995), 1607-1626.
NAME: Hoek-Smit, Marja C.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Director, International Housing Finance Program, Wharton School
Lecturer, Dept. of City and Regional Planning
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1979
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Amsterdam, 1971
B.A.: University of Amsterdam, 1965
LANGUAGES: Dutch
CURRENT RESEARCH: East and Southern Africa
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Housing Finance and Housing Subsidies in Barbados (with Douglas Diamond and Claude Bovet) Government of Barbados/IDB: Barbados, 1998
Poverty in Lesotho, Section on Urbanization, Housing and Services, World Bank, African
Technical Division Report, 1994
Housing Markets in Swaziland: Follow-up of the 1988 Urban Housing and Household Survey,
World Bank, Southern Africa Division, 1992.
Housing Demand and Preferences Study, Botswana Urban Areas, Euroconsult B.V./Government
of Botswana, Gabarone, 1990
NAME: Huss-Ashmore, Rebecca A.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, Anthropology (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1984
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts, 1984
M.A.:University of Maryland, 1974
A.B.:University of Illinois, 1963
LANGUAGES: German, Sesotho (elementary)
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Lesotho, 1980-82; Swaziland, 1985-88; Kenya 1991-96
CURRENT RESEARCH: Human adaptability, health and population processes in
developing countries, women in development, Southern
Africa, East Africa.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 5 edited volumes and 22+ articles including:
Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Bio-Cultural Perspective (Co-ed with Stinson, Bogin, and
O’Rourke). New York: Wiley Liss (In press)
Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future. Co-editor. Oxford UP, 1997
African Food Systems in Crisis. Part Two :Contending with Change. Co-editor. Gordon and Breach, New York. 1992
African Food Systems in Crisis. Part One :Micro perspectives. Gordon and Breach, Co-editor. New York. 1989.
“Human Adaptability Research in the Gambia,” Human Adaptability: Past, Present, and Future. (ed) Ulijaszek and Huss-Ashmore, Oxford UP, 1997
NAME: Kopytoff, Igor
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Anthropology (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1962
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Northwestern University, 1960
M.A.:University of Pennsylvania, 1958
B.A.:Northwestern University, 1955
LANGUAGES: French, Russian, and Spanish
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Suko of Southwestern Zaire, 1957-59; Mbato of Southern Ivory
Coast, 1964; Aghem (Wum) of Western Cameroon, 1969-1971
CURRENT RESEARCH: Ethnology, Religion, Social Studies, and Central Africa
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Permutations in Patrimonialism and Populism: The Aghem Chiefdoms of Western Cameroon,” in S. McIntosh (Ed) African Middle-Range Societies, Cambridge: Cambridge UP (In press)
Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. (Co-Edited with Suzanne Miers) Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 1977 (Paperback ed. 1985)
The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Edited Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. (Paperback ed. 1990).
“The Cultural Context of African Abolition. In Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts (Eds.) The End of Slavery in Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. pp 485-503. 1988.
NAME: Kuklick, Henrika
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, History and Sociology of Science (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1975
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Yale University, 1974
LANGUAGES: Spanish, French
CURRENT RESEARCH: Applied Social Science in Africa
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 2 books, 6 edited volumes, and 20 articles including
The Imperial Bureaucrat. The Colonial Administrative Service in the Gold Coast, 1920-1939. Stanford, CA, 1979.
The Savage Within. The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885-1945. New York, 1991; paperback edition, 1993.
“Contested Monuments: The Politics of Archaeology in Southern Africa,” in George W. Stocking, Jr., ed., Colonial Situations, Madison, 1991, pp. 135-69.
“Mind over Matter?” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 25 (1995): 361-78
“Islands in the Pacific: Darwinian Biogeography and British Anthropology,” American Ethnologist, 23 (1996) 611-38.
“After Ishmael: The Fieldword Tradition and its Future.” in James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, eds., Anthropology and the Field, forthcoming. Berkley: University of California Press, 1997.
“Fieldworkers and Physiologists,” in A. Herle and S. Rouse (Eds.) Cambridge and the Torres Strait Cambridge UP, 1998.
“Speaking with the Dead,” Isis 89 (1998) 103-11“Professionalisation and the Moral Order,” in A. Anderson and J. Valente (Eds) Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siecle (forthcoming)
NAME: Liberman, Mark
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Director, Linguistic Data Consortium
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1990
EDUCATION: Ph.D. MIT, 1975
M.S. MIT, 1972
B.A. Harvard University, 1969
LANGUAGES: Igbo, Yoruba, and Mawu
CURRENT RESEARCH: Phonetic evidence for linguistic structure; phonology and
phonetics of lexical tone in West African languages;
applications of linguistics in speech recognition and synthesis.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“The Cognitive Science of Language,” with Leila Gleitman in L. Gleitman and M. Liberman, (Eds.) Invitation to Cognitive Science. Boston: MIT Press, 1995; pp xix—xxvii.
“The Sound Structure of Mawu Words” in L. Gleitman and M. Liberman (Eds.) Invitation to Cognitive Science. Boston: 1995, pp. 55—86.
“Computer Speech Synthesis,” in D.B. Roe and J.G. Wilpin, (Eds.) Voice Communication between Humans and Machines, National Academy Press, 1994, pp. 107—116.
“Text Analysis and Word Pronunciation in Text-to-Speech Synthesis,” with K. Church in Furui and Sondhi, (Eds.) Advances in Speech Technology, Marcel Dekker, 1992 pp. 791—832
NAME: Maamouri, Mohamed
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Associate Director, International Literacy Institute &
Lecturer at the Language in Education Division,
Graduate School of Education (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1995
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:
Cornell University, 1967
M.A.:Cornell
University, 1965
B.A.:Universite’
de Paris (1964)
LANGUAGES: Arabic,
French, English
CURRENT RESEARCH: Literacy, North Africa; on-line assessment of reading process
in
Arabic
literacy; Arabic handbook on literacy
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Faculty Development in the Field of Adult
Literacy” in Higher Education Staff
Development:
Directions for the Twenty-First Century, Paris: UNESCO, 1994.
Bulletin
Bibliographique sur la variation linguistique (1960-1986), Centre International de Recherche
en Amenagement Linguistique (ex-CIRB),
University Laval, Quebec (co-authored), 1990.
“Impact des developpements technologiques
recent sur l´enseignement de l’arabe standard en Tunisie: etat de la question,” in Gilles Gagne et al
(eds), Didactique des langues Maternelles,
DeBoeck Universite, 1990.
NAME: Mann, Alan E.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Anthropology (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1969
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, 1968
M.A.:University of California, Berkeley, 1968
B.A.:University of Pittsburgh, 1961
LANGUAGES: French
FIELD EXPERIENCE: South Africa, Botswana, France
CURRENT RESEARCH: Early hominid dentition with evidence from France and Southern
Africa
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Hominoid phylogeny and taxonomy: a consideration of the Molecular and fossil evidence in an historical perspective.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5:169-181 (with M L. M Weiss). 1996
“Modern Human Origins: The Evidence from Middle East” Paleorient (In press)Human Biology and Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective (with M. L. Weiss) 5th Edition. Glenview Illinois: Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown. 1990
“L’ontogenese, la croissance de l’email dentaire et l’origine de l’homme moderne. Anthropologie et Prehistoire. (With A-M Tillier, M. Lampl and J. Monge). 1995.
“The patterns of ontogeny in human evolution: The evidence from dental development.”Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 33: 1-39 (with M. Lampl and J. Monge). 1990
NAME: Moudileno,
Lydie
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor, Romance Languages (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, 1994
MA: University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990
BA: Université de Nancy, France, 1984
LANGUAGES: French
CURRENT RESEARCH: Francophone Literature; role of writers in representing
multiracial and multicultural realities.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
L’ecrivain antillais au miroir de sa litterature. Paris: Karthala, 1997
“Maryse Condé and the Firght against Prejudice,” Thamyris 5: 2, (Autumn 1998): 239-253.
“Sony Labou Tansi’s La Vie et demie: On the Tortous Path of the Fable,” Research in African
Literatures 29:3 (Fall 1998) 21-33.
“Délits, détours et affabulation: L’écriture de l’anathème dans En famille de Marie Ndiaye.” The French Review (Vol. 71, Spring 1998)
“Portrait of the Artist as a Dreamer in Maryse Conde’s Traversee de la mangrove and Les Derniers rois Images” Callaloo 18.3 (1995) 626-640.
“Laissex bruler Laventuricia de Xavier Orville: L’imaginaire en proces.” ‘Heritage de Caliban. Ed. Maryse Conde. Pointe-a-Pitre: Editions Jasor, 1992. 175-185.
NAME: Muller, Carol Ann
TITLE/DEPARTMENT Assistant Professor of Music (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT 1995
EDUCATION Ph.D. New York University 1994
MA New York University 1991
B.M Natal University 1985
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Female Song, Dance, and Story in South Africa. Chicago: Chicago UP and Pietermaritzburg: Natal UP, (forthcoming September 1999)
“Chakide—The Teller of Secrets: Song and Story in Zulu Maskanda Performances” in Duncan Brown (Ed) Oral Literature and Performance in Southern Africa. London: James Currey and Pietermaritzburg: Natal UP, (forthcoming, 1999)
Zulu Women: Ritual Performance and the Construction of Cultural Truth and Power” in Margaret Daymond (Ed) Feminists Reading South Africa, 1990-1994: Writing, Theory andCriticism. New York: Garland, 1995
“Gumboot Dancing: Local, National and Worldbeats,” (with Janet Tropp Fargion) Journal of African Music, 1998.
“ ‘Written’ into the book of life: Nazarite Women’s Performances Inscribed as Physical Text in Ibandla LamaNazaretha’ Research in African Literatures (January1997)
“Musical Creation, Exile and the “Southern Touch” in the Jazz Songs of Sathima Bea Benjamin,” AfricanLanguages and Culture 9/2 (December 1996):127-43.
NAME: Ohene-Frempong, Kwaku, M.D.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor of Pediatrics, (T) Director, Sickle Cell Program and
Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, The Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, 1986 Chairman, Sickle Cell Advisory Committee of
the NIH, 1986-90 Member, Sickle Cell Disease Task Force,
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, 1991-present
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1986
EDUCATION: M.D.: Yale University, 1975
BS: Yale University (Biology), 1970
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Lemanek, K.L., Horwitz, W., and Ohene-Frempong, K: Quantitative analysis of the degree of irreversible deformation of F cells and non-F cells and its relationship to cell density in sickle cell disease. Exp. Hematol. 22:1058-1063, 1994.
Vichinsky, E.P., Haberkern, C.M., Neumayer, L., Earles, A.N., Black, D., Koshy, M., Pegelow, C., Abboud, M., Ohene-Frempong, K., Iyer, R.V., and the Preoperative Transfusion in Sickle
Cell Disease Study Group: A comparison of conservative and aggressive transfusion regimens in the perioperative management of sickle cell disease. New England Journal of Medicine. 333:206-14, 1995.
Lemanek, K.L., Horwitz, W., and Ohene-Frempong, K: A multiperspective investigation of social competence in children with sickle cell disease. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 19:443 456, 1994.
NAME: Omar, Alwiya S.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Lecturer, Linguistics & African Studies (U)
and Asst. Director, Penn Language Center
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1995
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:Indiana University, 1992
MA:University of Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania, 1985
BA:Kuwait University, Kuwait, 1978
LANGUAGES: Kiswahili French (good), Arabic Comorian
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Tanzania, Grand Comore, Madagascar, Kuwait
CURRENT RESEARCH: Kiswahili Pragmatics, Second Language Acquisition,
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Syntax.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“How Learners Greet in Kiswahili: A Cross-sectional Survey.” Boulton, L. & Kachru, Y. (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning. Monograph 2. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois.59-73. 1991
“Conversational Openings in Kiswahili: A Description of the Performance of Native and Non-native Speakers.” Bouton, L. & Kachru, Y. (Eds.) Pragmatics and Language Learning. Monograph 3. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois. 20-32. 1992.
“Conversational Closings in Kiswahili: The Performance of Native and Non-native Speakers.” Bouton, L. & Kachru, Y. (Eds.) Pragmatics and Language Learning. Monograph 4. Champaign-Urbana:University of Illinois. 104-125. 1993
NAME: Pack, Howard
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Department of Economics and Public Policy
and Management, Wharton School (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1986
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964
.B.A.: City College of New York, 1959
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Kenya, Tanzania, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Israel,Indonesia
CURRENT RESEARCH: Effects of foreign aid on development expenditures,
the diffusion of technology in developing countries, and the role
of external economies in industrial development.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 2 books, 40 articles, including:
Productivity, Technology, and Industrial Development (Oxford University Press, 1987.
“Technology Gaps Between Developed and Developing Countries: Are There Dividends for
Latecomers” Proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics, 1992. pp. 283-30. (reprinted in Meier, ed., Leading Issues in Development Economics, New York, Oxford, sixth edition, 1995)
“Foreign Aid and the Question of Fundability,” (with Janet Rothenberg Pack), Review of Economics and Statistics, 1993. Pp. 258-65.
“Industrial Development in suSaharan Africa,” World Development, January, 1993. Pp. 1-16.
“Diversity and the Study of African American Folklore.” Western Folklore (Winter, 1994).
NAME: Ramsey, Guthrie P. Jr.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assistant Professor, Music
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1965
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Michigan, 1994
M.A.: University of Michigan, 1991
BA: Northeastern Illinois University, 1986
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 2 Books (forthcoming); more than 20 articles:
Race Music: Postwar Black Musical Style from Bebop to Hip-Hop, forthcoming, University
of California Press.
Make a Noiise!: A Concise Introduction to African-American Music, co-authoried with Rae
Linda Brown, forthcoming, Norton Press
"Gospel With Its Eye Toward the Hip Hop Generation," The New York Times Arts and Leisure Section (July 11, 1999).
"Cosmopolitan or Provincial?: Ideology in Early Black Music Histriography, 1867-1940 Black Music Research Journal 16, no. 1 (Spring, 1988): 95-98
"Who Matters: The New andn Improved White Jazz-Literati, A Review Essay. Ronald Rondano, New Musical Figurations: Ingrid Monson, Saying Something; Burton Peretti, Jazz in American Culture for American Music 17 no. 1 (Spring, 1999.
NAME: Shoemaker, Louise P.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Emeritus, School of Social Work
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1965
EDUCATION: D.S.W.: University of Pennsylvania, 1965
M.S.W.: University of Pennsylvania, 1947
BA: University of Illinois, 1945
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Nigeria, Malawi
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 2 books; more than 20 articles including:
White Racism: A Study Manual, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1981.
“Indicators of Social Reform as the Result of Legislation in Nigeria: A Rural Case Study,” with Dr. Clement Anyanwu, Proceedings, International Conference of Social Welfare, Berlin, Germany, 1988.
“Cultural Pluralism and Social Work,” Proceedings, Lutheran Academy, 1988, Allentown, PA“ Adult Education, Community Development, and Social Work: Co-existence or Co-ordination?” Proceedings World Conference of Comparative Adult Education, University of Ibadan Press, Nigeria, 1991.
“AIDS, an International Crisis: Implications for Social Work Practice.” Nigerian Association of Social Work Proceedings, 1992
NAME: Shropshire, Kenneth
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor of Legal Studies & Real Estate, the Wharton School (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1997
EDUCATION: J.D.: Columbia University School of Law, 1980
A.B: Stanford University, 1977
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 4 books; more than 20 articles including:
A Modern Sports Law Anthology, Carolina
Academic Press (forthcoming, July 1999)
In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, New York University Press, 1996. Winner of "Outstanding Academic Book Award" (Choice Magazine. Winner of a 1997 "Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America" Outstandinng Book Award
Agents of Opportunity: Sports Agents and Corruption in Collegiate Sports, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Winnter of a 1992 "Outstanding Academic Book Award" (Choice Magazine) (2nd ed in Progress).
Careers in Sports Law, American Bar Association, 1990 (revised ed. in Progress).
"The Tarzan Syndrome: John Hoberman and His Problem with African-American Athletes and
Intellectuals," with Earl Smith, Journal of Sports and Social Issues 103-112 Winter (1998)
NAME: Silberberg, Donald H., M.D.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Department of Neurology (and Opthamology) (T),
School of Medicine
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1963
EDUCATION: M.D.: University of Michigan School of Medicine, 1958
BA: University of Michigan, 1954
AWARDS, HONORS, & MEMBERSHIPS in HONORARY SOCIETIES: more than 100 including: Hope Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society (1990)
Member 26 International/ National Societies including African Regional Education Training Program (AFRET)
Multiple Sclerosis Council for Clinical Practice Guidelines (1998- )
Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow (1993- )
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 2 Books, 108 Papers, 117 Abstracts, 54
Editorials including:
Organization and Delivery of Neurological Services, Chopra D. Bergen and Donald Silberberg, (eds) (in press).
Multiple Sclerosis, Vol. 6, McDonald W.I. and Silberberg, D. (eds) in Butterworths International Medical
Reviews-Neurology, Londong, Butterworths. 1986.
“Neurology’s International Interests,” Journal of Neurological Science (forthcoming)
Harouse JM, Bhat S, Laughlin M, Stefano K, Spitalnik S, Silberberg DH, Gonzalez-Scarano F. “Inhibition of entry of HIV-1 in neural cell lines by antibodies against galactosyl ceramide.” Science 253:320-323. 1991.
Bhat S, Spitalnik S, Gonzalez-Scarano F, Silberberg, DH. “Galactosyl ceramide is a receptor for HIV-I envelope glycoprotein gp-120.” Proc Natl Acad Sci 88:7131-7134, 1991.
Silberberg, DH. “2001 and beyond-What’s ahead for Neurology?” Ann Neurol 32:813-818, 1992.
NAME: Silverman, David P.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1977
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Chicago, 1975
AB: Rutgers University, 1966
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Egypt
CURRENT RESEARCH: Translations of Old and Middle Egyptian funerary inscriptions
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 10 books and 30 articles including:
Ancient Egyptian Kingship, co-editor and co-author. Leiden: E. J. Brill. 1995.
Religion in Ancient Egypt: Gods, Myths, and Personal Practice, with J. Baines and L. Lesko, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1990.
Language and Writing in Ancient Egypt, (the Carnegie Series on Egypt), Pittsburgh, PA: The Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 48 pages. 1990
“Coffin Texts from Bersheh, Kom el Hisn, and Mendes,” in Proceedings of the deBuck Symposium; Egyptologische Vitgiven (Leiden: Netherlands Institute for the Near East). 1995.
Texts from the Amarna Period and their Position in the Development of Ancient Egyptian,” Lingua Aegyptia I, pp. 301-314. 1991.
“Textual Criticism in the Coffin Texts,” in Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt (Yale Egyptological Studies III), (New Haven: Yale University), pp. 29-53. 1990.
NAME: Thompson, Joyce E.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, School of Nursing (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1979
EDUCATION: Dr.P.H.: Columbia University, 1980
M.P.H.: University of Michigan, 1971
B.S.N.: University of Michigan, 1964
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Malawi, Chile
CURRENT RESEARCH: Women’s health in Malawi, Nursing Ethics, Midwifery training
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 4 books, 4 edited volumes, 50+ articles including:
Thompson, J.B. and Thompson, H.O. Ethics in Nursing, New York: Macmillan,
Thompson, J. E. and Thompson, H. O. Bioethical Decision-Making for Nurses. Norwalk, CT: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1985.
Thompson, J.E. and Thompson, H.O. “Ethical Issues in Midwifery,” in L. Walsh (Ed) Midwifery: Community-based Care During the Childbearing Year. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1999.
Thompson, J.E. and Thompson, H.O. “Women: Their health and future in Africa.” In Thompson, Knappert and Feddema (Eds.). Health, Education and Welfare in Africa, pp. 1-23, Delhi: ISPCK,1993.
Thompson, J.E. and Thompson, H.O. “Ethics and Midwifery Practice,” World Health No. 2 (Mar/Apr 1997)
NAME: van de Walle, Etienne
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: United Parcel Service Term Professor of Demography (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1972
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Louvain, 1973
JD:University of Louvain, 1956
MA:University of Louvain, 1957
LANGUAGES: French (native)
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Rwanda and Burundi, Mali, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria
CURRENT RESEARCH: West, Central, East Africa; population, fertility, mortality
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Editor, (with P. Ohadike and M.D. Sala-Diakanda) The State of African Demography. IUSSP, Liege, 1988.
Editor, (with G Pison and M.D. Sala-Diakanda) Mortality and Society in SuSaharan Africa, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992.
“Recent trends in marriage ages,” in K. A. Fotte, K. H. Hill, and Population Dynamics of SuSaharan Africa, National Academy Press, Washington, DC. 1993, pp. 117-152
“Marriage drinks and kola nuts,” in C. Bledsoe and G. Pison (eds.) Nuptiality in SuSaharan Africa, Clarendon Press Oxford 1994, pp. 57-73
.(with Francine van de Walle) “A review of the demographic literature on the status and the condition of women in suSaharan Africa,” in Paulina Makinwa and An-Magritt Jensen (eds.), Women’s Position and Demographic Change in SuSaharan Africa, IUSSP, Liege 1995, pp. 389-403
NAME: Wagner, Daniel A.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor and Director International Literacy Institute &
National Center on Adult Literacy, Graduate School of
Education (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1981
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Michigan, 1976
MA:University of Michigan, 1971
BS:Cornell University, 1968
LANGUAGES: French, Spanish, Arabic
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Senegal, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Botswana, South Africa,
CURRENT RESEARCH: Cross-cultural studies of cognition and socialization.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 4 books, 10 edited volumes, 75+ articles including:
Adult Literacy: Advances in Research, Policy and Practice, Volumes 1—5. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (in press)(with Venezky, R.L and Street, B.V.)
Literacy: An International Handbook. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999
International Perspectives on the School-to-Work Transition (Ed). Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999.
The Future of Literacy in a Changing World. (Ed) (second edition, revised and updated) Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1999
Literacy, Culture and Development: Becoming Literate in Morocco, New York: Cambridge University Press. 1993
NAME: Washington, Joseph R., Jr.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1977
EDUCATION: Ph.D: Boston University, 1961
BD. Andover Newton Theological School, 1957
B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1952
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Rulers of Reality and the Ruler Races (1990)
The First Afro-American Honorary Degree Recipient, (1990)
The Moral of Molliston Madison Clark (1990)
The First Fugitive Foreign Doctor of Divinity (1990)
Black-Race Family Binds and White-Ethnic Kinship Ties: Reflections on Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in the Reagan Era, USF Monographs in Religion and Public Policy, Department of Religious Studies, University of South Florida
NAME: Watkins, Susan C.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Sociology (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1982
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1980
BA: Swarthmore College, 1960
LANGUAGES: Spanish
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Kenya, Malawi
CURRENT RESEARCH: Demography, Kenya & Malawi
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Gender and Population.” Herbert Spencer lecture, Oxford University, November 3. To be published in the 1995 Herbert Spencer Lectures volume on Gender and Science.
After Ellis Island: Newcomers and Natives in the 1910 Census. Editor. 1994. Russell Sage.
“Local and foreign models of reproduction in Nyanza Province, Kenya 1930-1988” Population and Development Review special supplement (forthcoming)
“This rariew, it doesn’t rhyme with Western Medicine: Recognition and treatment of reproductive illness in rural Kenya,” in C. Makhlout Obermeyer (Ed) Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
“Social Network Associations with Contraceptive Use Among Cameroonian Women in Voluntary Associations,” Social Science and Medicine 45/5 (1997):677-87. (with Tom Valente, Miriam Jato, Ariane van der Straten and Louis-Philippe Tistsol.)
NAME: Wegner, Josef W.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1996
EDUCATION: PH.D. :University of Pennsylvania, 1996
BA: University of Pennsylvania, 1989
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Egypt, Nubia
CURRENT RESEARCH: Egyptian Mortuary Complex and Middle Kingdom
settlement patterns in South Abydos
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at South Abydos: Beautiful is the Ka of Khakaure” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Arch.: Instituts Abteilung Kairo (forthcoming)
“Excavations at the town of Enduring-are-the-places-of-Khakaure-maa-keru-in-Abydos: A preliminary Report on the 1994 and 1997 Seasons,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt XXXV (1998)1-44
“South of Egypt: The Nile Kingdoms of Nubia,” in D. Silverman, (Ed) Searching for Ancient Egypt,1997
“The Nature and Chronology of the Senwosret III-Amenemhat III Regnal Succession; Some Considerations Based on New Evidence from the Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, (to appear in JNES October, 1996)
NAME: Zuberi, Tukufu (formerly Antonio McDaniel)
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Population Studies & Dept. of Sociology (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1989
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Chicago, 1989
MA: California State University, at Sacramento, 1985
BA: San Jose State University, 1981
LANGUAGES: Swahili, French
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Uganda. Tanzania
CURRENT RESEARCH: Demography and sociology, migration,African-American
immigration; mortality child fosterage, family and social change
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Thicker Than Blood: An Essay on the Quantification of Race. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
“Racial Classification and State Policy in the South Africa Census, 1657-1996" (with Akil K. Khalfani). In press, Cahiers Quebecois de Demographie.
“Mothers, Fathers, and Children: Regional Patterns in Child-Parent Residence in suSaharan Africa” (with Eliya Zulu). African Population Studies 11 (October 1996)1-28.
“‘The Philadelphia Negro’ Then and Now: Implications for Empirical Research,” in Michael B. Katz and Thomas Sugar (Eds) W.E.B. DuBois and THE PHILADELPHIA NEGRO: A Centenary Reappraisal. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (forthcoming)
“HIV Mortality and the African American Population,” (with Andrew London). National Journal of Sociology, vol. 9, Number 1:85-111, 1995
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LANGUAGE FACULTY
NAME: Bamba, Moussa
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Instructor, Bambara Language, University of Pennsylvania
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Quebec, 1991
M.A: University of Quebec, 1984
License es-lettres, Universite d’Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
LANGUAGES: French, Bambara, Mawukakan, Maninka,
Tagbusikan, Konyakan, Susu,English
PUBLICATIONS:
Textes mahous, Promotion des langues Manding et Peul (MAPE), éditeurs ACCT-ILA, Abidjan, 1983.
“The
Role of Accent in the Tonal system of Odiénné Dyula,” in Current Approaches to African
Linguistics 7: 1-15, eds. J. Hutchinson and V. Manfredi, Dordrecht, Foris. 1990
“Tons
syntagmatiques ou accent en haoussa,” dans Rapport
annuel de groupe de recherche en
linguistique (GRLA), Département de linguistique, UQAM. 1987.
“De
la représentaiton phonologique de la nasalité,” in Rapport annuel du groupe de recherche en
linguistique africaniste (GRLA), Département de linguistique, UQAM. 1986
NAME: Ofosu-Donkoh, Kobina
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Instructor, Twi Language, University of Pennsylvania
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1995
EDUCATION: Ph.D. (Religion): Temple University (expected 5/97)
M.A: Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 1991
Diploma in Theology: University of Ghana, 1984
LANGUAGES: Twi
PUBLICATIONS:
“South Africa in Transition,” a paper presented at the Pan-African Conference, Indiana State University, April, 1994.
“Constitutional Changes in South Africa,” paper presented with Prof. R. Agranoff and C.R. D. Halisi at African Studies Center, Indiana University, 1994.
“The Implications of Recent Elections for Political Change in Tanzania,” a paper presented at the
African Studies Program, Kalamazoo College, 1994.
NAME: Sibanda, Amson
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Instructor, Shona, University of Pennsylvania
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1995
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Demography, University of Pennsylvania, expected, 1998
M.A: University of Pennsylvania, 1994
M.S.: University of Zimbabwe, 1991
BA: University of Zimbabwe, 1989
LANGUAGES: Shona, Ndebele
NAME: Kershbaumer, Rose M.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Special Projects Coordinator and Asst. Project Director for
Malawi, School of Nursing (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1990
EDUCATION: Ed.D.: Teachers College, Columbia University
M.S., Nursing: University of Pennsylvania
B.S.: Nursing: University of Pennsylvania
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Uganda, Lesotho, Botswana CURRENT RESEARCH: Midwifery and women’s health in Malawi.
Coordinate 5-year women’s health project in Malawi;
develop a continuing education program in East and Central
Africa.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Bryn Mawr College
NAME: Allen, Michael H.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, Political Science, Bryn Mawr College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1985
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:London School of Economics and Political Science, 1984
M.S.: University of West Indies (1979)
BA: University of West Indies (1974)
FIELD EXPERIENCE: South Africa
CURRENT RESEARCH: Political economy of South Africa;
aspects of transnational negotiations to end apartheid;
international political economy
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Bargaining Environments of a Post-Apartheid State: Market, Class and Ethnic Dimensions” in Paul B. Rich (ed), The Dynamics of Change in Southern Africa, Macmillan, London, 1994.
“Rival Workers: Bargaining Power and Justice in Global Systems” in Roger Moran et al. (eds.) New Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World: Essays for Susan Strange, Macmillan, London, 1993.
“Struggle and Synthesis: Toward Theory for the Dutch Caribbean Experience” in Betty SedoDahlberg (ed) The Dutch Caribbean: Prospects for Democracy Gordon and Breach ,New York and London, Spring, 1990.
“Dutch Caribbean Decolonizationand Transitions in United States-Caribbean Relations” in Ibid. 1990.
NAME: Beard, Linda-Susan
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, English, Bryn Mawr College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Cornell University, 1979
BA: Bennington College, 1973
LANGUAGES French, Spanish, Latin
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Republic of South Africa and Nigeria
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Bessie Head’s Syncretic Fictions: The Reconceptualization of Power and the Recovery of the
Ordinary,” Modern Fiction Studies, Autumn, 1991, pp 575-586.
“Interview with Bessie Head; A Remembrance.” Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women (Spelman College), Fall, 1986, pp. 44-47.
“The Problem of Definition in Contemporary Southern African Fiction” in Language and Literature; ACLALS Proceedings (ed) Satendra Nandan (Suva, Figi; University of the South Pacific, 1983), pp. 54-65.
“Doris Lessing, African Writer” in When te Drumbeat Changes (eds.) C.
Parker and S. Arnold, Washington, D.C.:
Three Continents Press, 1981.
NAME: Gunkel, Cassandra Stancil
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Lecturer, English, History and Africana Studies Program, Bryn
Mawr College
YR. OF APPOINTMENT 1996
EDUCATION : Ph.D. Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania, 1995
M.A. Telecommunications Management, Ohio University, 1985
B.A. Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1975
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Stitching Stories—African American and Ethnic Quilting Traditions in Philadelphia,” Exhibit Curator, African American Museum of Philadelphia, June—October, 1998
“Nancy Riddick’s Quilts: Autobiographical Texts,” Uncoverings 17 (1996):1-28
“Block Party—Art of the Quilt,” Exhibit Curator, Free Library of Pennsylvania, March—May, 1996.
“The Dozens,” The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History Robert O’Meally and Jack Salzman (Eds.) New York: Columbia UP, 1995
NAME: Kilbride, Phillip L.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1969
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University of Missouri, 1970
MA: Pennsylvania State University, 1968
BS: Millersville State College, 1964
LANGUAGES: Swahili
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Mexico Uganda; Kenya
CURRENT RESEARCH: African ethnology and urbanproblems; women in informal
economies;family and child development in East Africa.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Changing Family Life in East Africa; Women and Children at Risk, (with J. E. Kilbride),University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990
“Sociocultural Factors and Perinatal Development of Baganda Infants: The Precocity Issue”, Pre-and Perinatal Psychology Journal, special issue on “Pre-and Perinatal Anthropology,” Charles Laughlin, (Ed.) Vol. 4, No. 4, 281-300. (with J. E. Kilbride, 1990.
“Female Violence Against Related Children: Infanticide as a Modern Form of Deviance in Kenya.” chapter in Deviance: Anthropological Perspectives, M. Freilich, D. Raybeck, J. Savishnisky (eds.) Bergin and Garvey, 115-133, 1991.
NAME: Osirim, Mary J.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, Sociology, Bryn Mawr
College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1985
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1990
M.S.: The London School of Economics and Political
Science
A.B.: Harvard-Radcliffe, 1976
LANGUAGES: French
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Zimbabwe, 1991, 1994, 1995; 12
African countries
CURRENT RESEARCH: Women in the Third World; Women
entrepreneurs in Africa;
the
informal sector in Africa and the Caribbean;political economy
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Trading in the Midst of Uncertainty: Market Women, Structural
Adjustment and the Prospects for Development in Zimbabwe.” in African Rural and Urban Studies,
January, 1995.
“Trade, Economy and Family in Urban
Zimbabwe,” in Ekechi and House-Midamba, eds. African Market Women and Economic Growth, Westport, CT: Greenwood
Publishers, pp: 157-175, January, 1995.
“Women, Work and Public Policy:
Structural Adjustment and the Informal Sector in Zimbabwe,” in Ezekiel
Kalipeni, ed., Population Growth and
Environmental Degregation in Southern Africa, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press,
pp. 61-84, September, 1994.
“The Dilemmas of Modern Development:
Structural Adjustment and Women Micro entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Zimbabwe,”
in Lorentzen and Turpin, eds., The
Gendered New World Order: Militarism, the Environment and Development, New
York: Routledge, April,1994.
NAME: Ross,
Marc Howard
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor,
Political Science, Bryn Mawr
College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1974
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Northwestern University, 1968
MA: Northwestern University, 1966
B.A.: University of Pennsylvania, 1964
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
The Culture of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative
Perspective: New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
The Management of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative
Perspective. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1993 Grass
Roots in an African City: Political Behavior in Nairobi. Cambridge: MIT
Press, 1975
The Political Integration of Urban Squatters, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973
. NAME: Washington,
Robert E.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Sociology, Bryn Mawr
College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1971
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:University of Chicago, 1978
M.A.: University of Chicago, 1970
B.A.: Columbia University, 1966
FIELD EXPERIENCE: East and Southern Africa; Nairobi,
Kenya; South Asia
CURRENT RESEARCH: Kenyan activist churches, “colorism” in
Kenya
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“West Africa and Tanzania Examined,”
The Black Sociologist, Fall, 1976 p.
25-35.
“Development and Deviance” in The Crisis and Challenge of African
Development (ed.) Harvey
Glickman
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988), pp 201-228.
“Brown Racism and the Formation of a
World System of Racial Stratification,” International
Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, V.4, No. 2 Winter 1990, pp.
209-227.
“Minority Identity and Self-Esteem
(with Judy Porter) in Annual Review of
Sociology, 19:139-61, 1993.
“Reclaiming the Civil Rights
Movement,” in Politics, Culture and
Socity, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1996
Language Faculty
NAME: Mshomba,
Elaine
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Instructor, Swahili Language, Bryn
Mawr College (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994
EDUCATION: M.A. (Candidate), Education, LaSalle University
J.D.,
College of Law, University of Illinois
B.A.,
University of Illinois, 1985
LANGUAGES: Swahili, French, German, Russian, and Spanish
CURRICULUM VITAE
Haverford College
NAME: Anyinefa,
Koffi
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, French, Haverford
College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1990
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:Universität Bayreuth, 1989
M.A.: Universität Bayreuth, 1982
B.A.: Université du Bénin, Togo, 1980
LANGUAGES: French, German, Ewe
FIELD EXPERIENCE: France, Germany, West Africa
CURRENT RESEARCH: FrancophoneAfrica and the Diaspora,
Literary
images of Africa, and
Nationalism,
Exile and Literature,
Francophonie as Institution;
French and German Colonial Literatures.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
“Intertextuality in Dongala’s Un fusil dans la main, un poeme dans la
poche.” Research in African Literatures 24.1
(1993): 5-17“Hello and Goodbye to Negritude: Senghor, Dadie, Dongala and
America.” Forthcoming in Research in
African Literatures 27.2 (1996)
Le Pleurer-Rire d’Henri Lopes: Roman
postcolonial et postmoderne.” Forthcoming in Research in African Literatures 28 (1997).
“Y a bon banania: L’Afrique et le
discours nationaliste dans ‘Tombouctou’ de Maupassant.” Forthcoming in The French Review (December, 1997).
NAME: Ball,
Richard J.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor, Economics, Haverford
College (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1993
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: University
of California, Berkeley, 1993
M.S..: Michigan State University, 1988
B.A.: Williams College, 1984
LANGUAGES: French
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Chad, Egypt and Sierra Leone.
CURRENT RESEARCH: Political Economy of Africa
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Governance Structures and the
Durability of Economic Reforms: Evidence from Inflation
Stabilizations” (co-authored with Gordon C. Rausser), World Development, Volume 23, Number 6, June, 1995.
“Political, Economic and
Humanitarian Motivations for P.L. 480 Food Aid: Evidence of Africa”
(co-authored with Christopher Johnson, Haverford College Class of 1994), Economic Development and Cultural Change, January,
1996.
“Efficient but Poor Revisited” (with Laurie Pounder), Economic
Development and Cultural Change, (in press.)
NAME: Glickman,
Harvey
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Political Science,
Haverford College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1960
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1958
M.A.: Harvard University, 1955
B.A.: Princeton University, 1952
LANGUAGES: French, Swahili
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Tanzania 1962-63; South Africa
1973
CURRENT RESEARCH: African Government, Comparative
Politics,
Democratization and Conflict; Tanzania,
Ghana, South Africa.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
The Crisis and Challenge of African Development, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1988, Editor and Contributor.
Toward Peace and Security in Southern Africa, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1990, Editor and
Contributor Political Leaders of Africa
South of the Sahara: A Biographical
Dictionary, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992, Editor and Contributor. Named Outstanding Academic Book by CHOICE
Books for College Libraries, 1993.
Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa, Atlanta, GA: African Studies
Association Press, 1995.
“Democratization Processes in
Africa,” Global Restructuring and the Third World, Working Papers, Defense
Academic Research Support Program Conference, Washington, DC, 1990.
“Outlook for the Clinton
Administration,” South African Institute For International Affairs, Update,
February, 1993.
NAME: Jefferson,
Paul Channing
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, History, Haverford
College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1984
EDUCATION: Ph.D. Harvard
University, 1976
B.A.: Harvard College, 1967
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“The Travels of William Wells
Brown”, ed. Paul Jefferson (New York: Markus Wiener Publishing Co., Edinburgh,
Scotland: Edinburgh University Press (Early Black Writers Series, volume 4),
1991
“Play it Again, Sam: ‘W.E.B. Du Bois
at Atlanta University, 1933-1944,” Phylon:
The Clark Atlanta University Review of Race and Culture, 1 (Spring, 1993),
pp. xx-xx
“Review Essay: The Question of Black
Philosophy,” Journal of Social Philosophy,
20 (Winter 1989), pp. 99-109.
“The New Negro,” in Masterplots II: African-American Literature,
ed. By Salem Press, Inc. (New York:
Harper Collins, 1994)
“The Autobiographical Writings of
William Wells Brown,” in Masterpieces of
African-American Literature, ed. by Frank N. Magill, New York: Marshall
Cavendish, 1993.
NAME: Mohan,
Rajeswari
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor, English ,Haverford
College(U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1984
EDUCATION: Ph.D. Syracuse
University, 1990
M.A.: Syracuse University, 1982
M.A.: Madurai University, India, 1977
B.A.: Women’s Christian College, Madras, India,
1975LANGUAGES: French, German, Latin
CURRENT RESEARCH: Rethinking Marxism, Postmodern Culture,
Gender
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
(with Rosemary Hennessy) “The
Construction of Woman in Three Popular Texts of Empire: Towards a Critique of
Materialist Feminism,” Textual Practice,
3.3, Winter, 1989. Reprinted in Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory:
A Reader. Ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (New York: Columbia 1994. Reprinted in Materialist Feminism: A Reader.
Ed. Chrys Ingraham and Rosemary Hennessy (New York: Routledge) forthcoming
“Multiculturalism and the Protocols
of the New World Order,” in Mediations,
16.2, May, 1992 Reprinted in Order and
Partialities: Theory, Pedagogy, and the “Post Colonial” Albany, NY: SUNY
Press, 1995
“Multiculturalism in the 90s:
Pitfalls and Possibilities,” in Going
Public: New Directions for the Humanities after PC, eds. Christopher
Newfield and Ronald Strickland. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995)
NAME: Mortimer,
Robert A.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Political Science,
Haverford College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1966
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Columbia University, 1968
M.A.:
Columbia University, 1963
B.A.: Wesleyan University, 1960
LANGUAGES: French
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Senegal, Algeria
CURRENT RESEARCH: African Politics, West Africa,
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa, co-authored with Naomi Chazan, John
Ravenhill, and Donald Rothchild (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1988).
Second edition, 1992.
The Third World Coalition in International Politics, second updated Edition (Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 1984) “ECOMOG, Liberia, and Regional Security in West
Africa” in Edmond Keller and Donald Rothchild, eds., Africa in the New International Order (Boulder: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 1996).
“Islamists, Soldiers and Democrats:
The Second Algerian War,” The Middle East
Journal, 50, 1 (Winter 1996).
“Les Etats-Unis face a` la situation
algerienne,” MaghreMachrek,Monde Arabe,
149 (July-September, 1995
NAME: Outlaw,
Lucius T., Jr.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: T. Wistar Brown Professor of
Philosophy, Haverford College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1980
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Boston College, 1972
B.A.: Fisk University, 1967
CURRENT RESEARCH: African Philosophy; African-American
Philosophy; Continental
Philosophy;
Phenomenology, Hermeneutics; History ofPhilosophy;
Social
and Political Philosophy: Marx, Critical Social Theory.
MAJOR PUBLICATION:
“African ‘Philosophy’:
Deconstructive and Reconstructive Challenges,” in Contemporary Philosophy:
Chronicles, Vol. 5: African Philosophy, Guttorm Floistad, Editor,
Martinus Nijhoff: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1987, pp. 9-44; and in H. Odera
Oruka, ed., Sage Philosophy: Indigenous
Thinkers and Modern Debate on African Philosophy, E. J. Brill: Leiden, New
York, Kobenhavn, Koln, 1990, pp. 223-248.
“Africa, African American, Africana
Philosophy,” Philosophical Forum,
Vol. XXIV, Nos. 1-3 (FallSpring 1992-1993), pp. 63-93.
“Africa, Identity, and the American
Experiment,” in African and
African-American Sensibility, edited by
Michael Coy, Jr. and Leonard Plotnicov (Pittsburgh: University of
Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, Ethnology Monograph No. 15, 1995, pp.
1-19).
“On Race and Philosophy.” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (New
School for Social Research), Vol. 18, No. 2, 1995, pp. 175-199.
NAME: Purpura,
Allyson
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Lecturer, Anthropology, Swarthmore
College (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1998
EDUCATION Ph.D. Anthropology, City University of New
York , 1997
M.Phil.
Anthropology, City University of New York, 1993
B.A.
Anthropology, Hampshire College, 1980.
LANGUAGES: Kiswahili
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Kenya, Tanzania
CURRENT RESEARCH: Islam in Africa; Islamic Cultural
Expression
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Dangerous Incursions: Prayer, Power
and the Truth about God,“ paper presented at workshop on Inside and Outside the Mosque: Anthropology of Muslim Prayer,
Oxford University.
“Ambivalent affinities: The Politics
of Descent and Islamic Authority in Zanzibar,“ paper presented at American
Anthropological Association Meeting, 1995
“Reciting Women: Gender, Agency and
Islamic Discursive Practice,“ paper presented at the African Studies
Association, 1993.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Swarthmore College
NAME: Arrow, Kim David
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Instructor, Theatre Program,
Swarthmore College
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1991
EDUCATION: MFA, New York University, School of the Arts, 1975
B.S.
Temple University, 1972
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Rain and Thunder,“ (solo)
Swarthmore College Music and Dance Festival, June 1999
“Wind and Howl,“ (solo) Swarthmore
College Music and Dance Festival, June 1999
“The Overcoat,“ (duet, premier)
Philadelphia Fringe Festival, September 1998
“ Samba/Tabla“ (choreographer and
director) Philadelphia Fringe Festival, September 1998
NAME: Burke,
Timothy J.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor, History, Swarthmore
College (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1994
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:Johns Hopkins University, 1993
M.A.: Johns Hopkins University, 1990
B.A.: Wesleyan University, 1986
LANGUAGES: French, Spanish, chiShona (rudimentary)
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Zimbabwe
CURRENT RESEARCH: Southern Africa, African Diaspora, Afro-Caribbean
History;
Comparative
history of colonialism, family,
gender & sexuality
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS: 3 Books; more than 25 articles and presentations
Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in
Modern Zimbabwe, Duke
University Press, 1996.
Saturday Morning: The Cultural History of an American Institution; St. Martin’s Press, forthcoming.
Sunlight Soap has Changed My Life: Commodity,
Fetishisms and the Body in Colonial Zimbabwe, in “Dress, Identity and
Power in SuSaharan Africa, Hildi Hendrickson, ed., Duke University Press,
Spring, 1996.
Review of
Jock McCulloch, Colonial Psychiatry and
'The African Mind": Bulletin of
the History of Medicine. Fall,
1996.
"'Fork
Up and Smile'": Consumption, the
Female Subject and the Legacy of Colonialism." In submission; originally
presented to Center for African and Afro-American Studies, University of Michigan, Fall 1993.
NAME: Carpenter,
Syd
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor of Studio Arts,
Swarthmore College
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1991
EDUCATION: M.F.A Temple University, 1976
B.F.A.
Temple University, 1974
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Clay Invitational,“ Denise Bibro
Gallery, New York, 1998
“20 x 12: A Generation of Challenge
Artists,“ Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, 1998
“A More Perfect Union,“ Abington Art
Center, Jenkintown, 1998
“Constructions in Multiple Hues,“
Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, 1998
“Women Mentoring Women,“ Westby
Gallery, Glassboro, 1997
“ Altered States: Contemporary
American Ceramics,“ Colorado Springs, 1997
“Exploring A Movement: Feminist
Visions in Clay,“ Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, 1996
NAME: Chireau,
Yvonne Patricia
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor, Dept. Of Religion,
Swarthmore College (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1993
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Princeton University, 1994
Masters
of Theological Studies: Harvard (1986)
B.A.:
Mount Holyoke College, 1982
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Black Magic: Dimensions of the Supernatural in African-American Religion, University of California Press, forthcoming
“Gender and Magical Empowerment,” in
Susan Juster and Lisa MacFarlane, eds., Race, Gender and eligion in Nineteenth
Century America, Cornell University Press, forthcoming, 1996.
“Hidden Traditions: Black Religion,
Magic and Alternative Spiritual Beliefs in Womanist Perspective,” Journal of the Interdenominational
Theological Center, Spring, 1995
“Folk Religion,” in Jack Salzman,
David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West, eds., The
Columbia Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, Macmillan
Publishing Co., 1995
NAME: Friedler,
Sharon Eschenbeck
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor and Chair, Dept. Of
Music, Swarthmore College
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1985
EDUCATION: M.F.A.: Southern Methodist University (1974)
B.A.: Colby College (1970)
CURRENT RESEARCH: Choreography, Dance and Gender, Dance
and Culture,
Dance and Terminology
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance, Coedited by Sharon Friedler and
Susan Glazer, Gordon and Breach, Ltd., London, Muriel Topaz, ed.(in press)
Anatomy for Dance and Sport, Co-authored with Joann M. Johnson, Ph.D., Burgess Publishing Co.,
Minneapolis, MN, 1982
NAME: Hopkins,
Raymond F.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Political Science,
Swarthmore College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1968
EDUCATION: Ph.D.:Yale University, 1968
M.A.: Ohio State University, 1963
B.A.: Ohio Wesleyan University, 1960
LANGUAGES: Swahili; German and French (read only)
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Kenya, Tanzania
CURRENT RESEARCH: Food and Agricultural Policy, Foreign
Aid, East Africa
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Information Sharing and Consultation Among Major Food Aid Donors, International Food Policy Research
Institute, December, 1984.
“Nutrition
-Related Policy Research: A Political Science Perspective,” in Per Pinstrup-Andersen, ed., Political Economy of Food and Nutrition Policies (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Press, 1993).
Agriculture in Low-Income Countries, International Food Policy Research Institute
with Joachim von Braun, Detlev Puetz, DorSati Madani, and Rajul Pandya-Lorch
(Washington: IFPRI, October, 1993).
The Role of Governance in Economic Development, John W. Harbeson, Raymond Hopkins
and David Smith, eds., Responsible Governance: The Global Challenge (Bethesda,
MD: University Press of America, 1994), pp 101-119.
“Food Security and Governance in SuSaharan
Africa”, with Robert Hindle in Oxford
International Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1994), pp. 23-30.
The Political Economy of Food and
Nutrition in Ghana, in Per Pinstrup-Andersen and James Garrett, eds., The Politics of Nutrition Policy in
Developing Countries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
NAME: James,
Charles L.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Professor, Department of English,
Swarthmore College
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1973
EDUCATION: M.S: SUNY,
Albany, NY 1969 B.S: SUNY,
New Paltz, NY 1961:
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“On Shaping a Fictive Matrix: Arna
Bontemps’ Creole Heritage,”forthcoming in Syracuse University Libraries’ Courier, Fall, 1995
“Reflections on Fly Leaves” (an
essay on original verses by Alberta Bontemps), The Langston Hughes Review, Vol.XIII, No.1, Fall 94/Spring 1995,
pp. 45-52
“On Civic Responsibility in a
Multicultural World,” The Swarthmore
Papers: Educating for Civic Responsibility in a Multicultural World, Vol.I,
No.1, January, 1993.
NAME: Leach,
Colin Wayne
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assistant Professor, Pychology, Swarthmore College
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1996
EDUCATION: Ph.D. Psychology,
University of Michigan, 1995
M.A. Pyschology, Boston University, 1991
B.A.
Pyschology, Boston University, 1989
CURRENT RESEARCH: Race and Ethnicity, Inter-group
relations
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Spoiling the Consciences of the
Fortunate: Toward a Phenomenolgy of Relative Advantage,“ (with N. Snider) in I.
Walker and H.J. Smith (Eds) Relative
Deprivation: Specification, Development and Integration New York: Basic
Books (forthcoming)
“Ethnicity and Identity Politics,“
(with L.M. Brown) in L. Kurtz (Ed.) Encyclopedia
of Violence, Peace and Conflict.
New York: Academic Press (forthcoming)
“Towards a Social Psychology of
Racism?: Comments on “On the Parallels Between Social Cognition and the ‘New
Racism‘ by Hopkins, Reicher and Levine““ British
Journal of Social Pyschology 19/3 (1998): 255-58.
“Generalizing from Atypical Cases:
How General a Tendency?“ (with E.
Krupat, R.H. Smith and M.A. Jackson) Basic and Applied Psychology 19/3
(1997):345-361
“Envy and Shadenfreude,“ (with R.H.
Smith, T. Turner, R. Garonzik, V.G. Urch and C. Weston) Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22/2 (1996): 158-68
NAME: O’Connell,
Stephen A.
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assoc. Professor, Economics,
Swarthmore College (T)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1990
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986
A.B.: Oberlin College, 1978
LANGUAGES: French, Spanish
FIELD EXPERIENCE: Kenya
CURRENT RESEARCH: suSaharan Africa; political economy of
development and
foreign
aid, macro-economic policy in developing countries.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
“Monetary Adjustment and Policy
Compatability in a Controlled Open Economy,” Journal of African Economies, 4(1), 1995: 52-82.
“Parallel Exchange Rates in
Developing Countries” (with Miquel Kiguel), World
Bank Research Observer, January, 1995.
“Dynamic Efficiency in the Gift
Economy,” (with Stephen P. Zeldes), Journal
of Monetary Economics, 32:3, June, 1993
Comment on “Some Unresolved Issues
in African Financial Reform,” by J. Paulson, in Lawrence H. White, ed. African Finance: Research and Reform,
San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 1993: 25-29.
“Macroeconomic Harmonization, Trade
Reform and Regional Trade in SuSaharan Africa,” in I. Elbadawi, and T. A.
Oyejide, eds. Volume I: Framework, Issues
and Methodological Perspectives
NAME: Rice-Maximin,
Micheline
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Asst. Professor, Economics, Swarthmore
College (U)
YR. OF APPOINTMENT: 1990
EDUCATION: Ph.D.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986
A.B.: Oberlin College, 1978
LANGUAGES: French
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Post-Colonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers, co-editor with Green and elli,
Minneapolis, University of Minnestota Press, 1996.
Karukdra, presence litterature de la Quadelope, New York, Peter Lang Publishing
Company, forthcoming, 1997.
“Nouvelle ecriture from the Ivory
Coast: A Reading of Veronique Tadjo’s A
Vol d’oissau,” in Post-Colonial
Subjects: Francopone Women Writers, Minneapolis University of Minnesota
Press, 1993, pp 157-172.
NAME: Willie,
Sara Susannah
TITLE/DEPARTMENT: Assistant Professor, Sociology,
Swarthmore College (U)
Co-ordinator,
Black Studies Program, Swarthmore College
YR OF APPOINTMENT: 1997
EDUCATION: Ph.D. Sociology, Northwestern University, 1995
M.A.
Sociology, Northwestern University, 1988
B.A.
Sociology, Haverford College, 1986
CURRENT RESEARCH: Race and Racial Identity; Social
Inequality; Sociology and
Literature;
Sex and Gender
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Acting Black: College, Identity and the Performance of Race Routledge (forthcoming)
“Outing the
Blackness in the White: Analyzing Race, Class and Gender in Everyday Life,“ in
Darrell Moore and Phyllis Jackson (Eds) The
Outing Whiteness Conference: Selected Papers. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000
(forthcoming)