Africanist Faculty
This page contains an alphabetical listing of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill who have research or teaching interests in Africa. In addition to this resource, the Center for Global Initiatives maintains the International Faculty Expertise Database, which allows users to search by various criteria to find faculty members with particular specializations.
This page contains an alphabetical listing of faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill who have research or teaching interests in Africa. In addition to this resource, the Center for Global Initiatives maintains the International Faculty Expertise Database, which allows users to search by various criteria to find faculty members with particular specializations.
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Specialization: Relevant Courses Taught: Relevant Experience:
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Linda Adair
linda_adair@unc.edu
Professor, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Maternal and child nutrition in developing countries; environmental influences on child health; developmental origins of adult disease. Relevant Experience: PI on numerous NIH grants; Honorary Professor, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; UNICEF International Consultation in Developing Countries. Relevant Courses Taught: NUTR 745, International Nutrition; NUTR 808, Global Cardiometabolic Disease Seminar.
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John Akin
john_akin@unc.edu
Austin H. Carr Distinguished Professor, Economics
Specialization: Health economics; financing of health systems in developing countries. Relevant Courses Taught: ECON 851, Health Economics for Developing Countries.
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Simon Alder
salder@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Economics
Specialization: Economic development, including China/Africa economic policy and development.
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Sahar Amer
samer@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Asian Studies; Instructor, Medieval Studies
Specialization: Cross-cultural relations between Arabs and Europe; Muslims and Christians throughout history; North Africa; Arabs and Muslims in France today; cross-cultural constructions of gender.
Relevant Courses Taught: ARAB 150, Introduction to Arab Culture; ARAB 305-306, Advanced Arabic.
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Alice Ammerman
alice_ammerman@unc.edu
Mildred Kaufman Distinguished Professor, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Design and testing of clinical and community-based nutrition and physical activity intervention approaches for chronic disease risk reduction.
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Ashley Anderson
aaanders@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Specialization: Comparative politics, democratic unrest in North Africa, political economy of authoritarian regimes.
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Barbara Anderson
b_anderson@unc.edu
Associate Director, African Studies Center; Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Reflective practice; adult and continuing professional education; educational consulting in African and African American Studies. Relevant Experience: Led group study tours to Senegal for NC K-16 educators; Developed programs in NC for K-16 educators. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 130, Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies; The African Diaspora in the Colonial Americas, 1450-1800; AAAD 290, Topics in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.
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Glaire Anderson
glaire@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Art
Specialization: History and theory of Islamic architecture. Relevant Experience: Digital Project: A Medieval �First in Flight� http://medievalflight.web.unc.edu/ ‘Erasing the East-West Divide,’ Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC) Grant.
Relevant Courses Taught: ARTH 154/ASIA 154, Introduction to Art and Architecture of Islamic Lands (Eighth-16th Centuries CE); ARTH 290, Topics in Art History: Art in the Age of the Caliphate; ARTH 450, The City as Monument: Cities and Society in the Medieval Islamic Lands; ARTH 458/ASIA 458, Islamic Architecture and the Environment; ARTH 561/ASIA 561, Arts of the Islamic Mediterranean; ARTH 956, Graduate Seminar in Islamic Art: Orientalism and Art.
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Robert Anderson
roberto@email.unc.edu
Lecturer of Portuguese, Romance Studies; Coordinator, Languages Across the Curriculum
Specialization: Portuguese language instruction; LAC program development; Afro-Brazilian studies; Luso-Asian literature. Relevant Courses Taught: PORT 203, Intermediate Portuguese I; PORT 204, Intermediate Portuguese II; PORT 385, Lusophone Africa in Literature.
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Martine Antle
mcantle@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Romance Languages
Specialization: Twentieth-Century French Studies; African Francophone literature; postmodernism and cultural studies.
Relevant Courses Taught: FREN 260, Introduction to French Literature; FREN 375, Francophone Studies; FREN 380, French & Francophone Drama; FREN 381, French & Francophone Poetry; FREN 382, French & Francophone Prose; FREN 505, African Francophone Cinema.
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David Ansong
ansong@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Specialization: Educational and economic disparities, youth asset development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Relevant Experience: Study: Impacts of Early Scholarship Grants and Matched Education Savings Accounts on Academic Performance and Progression in Ghana. Relevant Courses Taught: Foundations of Evidence-Based Practice and Program Evaluation
Brandy Arellano
brandy_arellano@unc.edu
Opening Access Program Manager, Center for Global Initiatives
Relevant Experience: Manages UNC Center for Global Initiatives programs to open access to new global opportunities. Programs include Passport to Go! Fellowship, GO! Global Orientation, Global Take Off: Puerto Rico, and the Carolina Global Initiative Award.
Idris Assani
assani@email.unc.edu
Professor, Mathematics
Specialization: Ergodic theory; probability theory. Relevant Experience: World Bank-ACE project to select and finance STEM research centers of excellence in Africa; Organized collaboration between UNC-Chapel Hill and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana.
Farida Badr
fbadr@email.unc.edu
NO LONGER AT UNC
Lecturer in Arabic, Department of Asian Studies.
Relevant Experience: Oral Proficiency Interview Tester of Arabic, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL); Coordinator of student conversation groups, UNC-Chapel Hill. Relevant Courses Taught: ARAB 101-102, Elementary Arabic; ARAB 203-204, Intermediate Arabic; ARAB 300, Arabic Grammar and Composition.
Navin Bapat
bapat@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Political Science
Specialization: Political conflict, insurgency, terrorism, interstate conflict, economic conflict, state building. Relevant Courses Taught: POLI 444/PWAD 444, Seminar on Terrorism; POLI 452, Africa and International Conflict.
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Oscar Barbarin
barbarin@email.unc.edu
Professor, School of Social Work
Specialization: Child development; culture and mental health; early childhood education.
Relevant Experience: Investigator, Birth to Twenty Longitudinal Study of South African Children Evaluator, Selected by South African Government to evaluate the effectiveness of the research and training at The NRF Unit for Child Development (UCD), at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
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Maxcine Barnes
mhbarnes@email.unc.edu
Business Manager, Area Studies Centers
Specialization: Business Administration and Computer Science.
Jamie Bartram
jbartram@email.unc.edu
Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering;
Director, Water Institute at UNC
Specialization: Environmental health, disease prevention, drinking water supply and quality; water sanitation. Relevant Experience: Founded the Water Institute at UNC; funding sources include World Vision, UNICEF, PLAN-International/USA, and USAID. Relevant Courses Taught: ENVR 682, Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Global Health.
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Wilfrida Behets
Frieda_Behets@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS, STI and HIV prevention and research in Africa and the Caribbean, Woman controlled STI/HIV prevention; Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV; Bioethics and justice in health.
Relevant Experience: Research and public health experience in DR, Congo, Cameroon, Senegal, Madagascar, Malawi, Jamaica, Haiti.
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 757, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries; EPID 898, Global Health Ethics Seminar.
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Trude Bennett
trude_bennett@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Global reproductive health and health policy; monitoring of maternal morbidity and women�s health; impact of globalization on reproductive health.
Relevant Courses Taught: MHCH 680, Global Sexual and Reproductive Health; MHCH 730, Reproductive Health Policy; EPID 690, Problems in Epidemiology (Section: Global Health Ethics Seminar); HPM 496, Readings in Health Policy and Management (Section: Critical Global Health Issues).
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Margaret Bentley
pbentley@unc.edu
Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Associate Dean for Global Health; Associate Director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease
Specialization: Breastfeeding; maternal health; nutrition; obesity; rural health; sexually transmitted diseases. Relevant Experience: Development of a comprehensive fundraising and strategic planning program for global health in the School of Public Health; Research experience in Kenya, Nigeria, and Malawi. Relevant Courses Taught: PUBH 510, Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health; NUTR 745, International Nutrition.
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Stephen Birdsall
birdsall@email.unc.edu
Professor, Geography
Specialization: The role of place in personal and cultural decisions.
Relevant Courses Taught: GEOG 120, World Regional Geography; GEOG 125, Cultural Landscapes.
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Judith Blau
judith_blau@unc.edu
Professor, Sociology
Specialization: Justice studies, human rights; sociology of aesthetics; critical race theory.
Relevant Experience: Collaboration with social scientists at the University of Asmara, Eritrea; Board, Carolina for Kibera.
Relevant Courses Taught: SOCI 111, Human Societies.
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Chris Bingham
cbingham@unc.edu
Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School; Co-Director of Kenan Entrepreneurship Initiative
Specialization: Organizational learning, adaptation, growth, innovation and strategic decision making in entrepreneurial firms and firms in dynamic markets. Relevant Courses Taught: Taught MBA course Strategy in a Global Arena (2013-2016).
Shelah Bloom
ssbloom@email.unc.edu
Research Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality and morbidity, gender context of reproductive health in developing countries. Relevant Experience: USAID’s Inter-agency Gender Working Group Technical Advisory Group; Carolina Population Center MEASURE Evaluation. Relevant Courses Taught: MHCH 716, International Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
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Neil Bolick
nebolick@unc.edu
Associate Director, World View
Specialization: Internationalizing curriculum, training of K-16 educators. Relevant Experience: World View seminars, symposia, workshops, residential programs & online courses; presentations on globalization and internationalizing the Community College curriculum.
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Karen Booth
kmbooth@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies
Specialization: Gender, sexuality, globalization and underdevelopment; transnational feminisms; HIV/AIDS; reproductive health; human rights.
Relevant Courses Taught: WGST 388, The International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health; WGST 583, Gender and Imperialism; WGST 610, Feminism, Sexuality, and Human Rights.
Lydia Boyd
lydia.boyd@unc.edu
Associate Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: African ethnography and social history; gender and sexuality; medical anthropology; visual anthropology; ethnographic film; urban Africa; religion; Uganda. Relevant Experience: Research focuses on the promotion of sexual abstinence as an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy among born-again Christian youth in Kampala, Uganda. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 200/WGST 200, Gender and Sexuality in Africa; AAAD 210, African Belief Systems: Religion and Philosophy in Sub-Saharan Africa; AAAD 300, Cultures of Health and Healing in Africa; AAAD 387, HIV/AIDS in Africa and the Diaspora.
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Kenneth Broun
ksbroun@email.unc.edu
Henry Brandis Professor, School of Law
Specialization: Civil procedure; evidence; professional responsibility; and trial advocacy.
Relevant Experience: Author of Black Lawyers, White Courts (Ohio Univ. Press) a book about the black lawyers of South Africa. Conducted training programs in trial advocacy in South Africa for the Black Lawyers Assocation of South Africa. Currently completing research for a book on the Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela.
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Shamecca Bryant
shamecca@live.unc.edu
U.S. Head of Operations, Carolina for Kibera
Specialization: Leads US-based CFK operations, providing technical leadership and direction for strategic partnerships, communications, and fundraising.
Emily Burrill
eburrill@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies; Director, African Studies Center
Specialization: Modern African history; legal and gender history; Muslim societies and French colonial rule; French empire; global histories of women’s rights; post colonialism; feminist theory. Relevant Courses Taught: WGST 313/HIST 313, Women and the Law in Africa and the Middle East; WGST 337, African Gender History; HIST 535, Women and Gender in African History; WGST 583, Gender and Imperialism; HIST 719, Readings in African History; HIST 815, Topics in African History.
Samba Camara
camaras@unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: African literature, Wolof language instruction. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 201, The Literature of Africa; AAAD 259, Black Influences on Popular Culture; AAAD 414, Senegalese Society and Culture; WOLO 401-402, Beginning Wolof; WOLO 403-404, Intermediate Wolof; WOLO 405-406, Advanced Wolof.
Martha Carlough
martha_carlough@med.unc.edu
Director, Office of International Activities, School of Medicine; Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Family medicine and reproductive health, skilled birth attendant training and assessment, obstetric and newborn care, malaria and pregnancy, prevention of maternal to child HIV transmission, community level nutrition. Relevant Experience: Samaritan’s Purse; Safe Motherhood and Newborn Care Clinical Advisor for IntraHealth International; Faculty Advisor for Physicians for Human Rights. Relevant Courses Taught: PUBH 704, Foundations of Global Health.
Gina Chowa
chowa@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Specialization: International social development; youth asset development; financial inclusion. Relevant Experience: Testing Impacts of Youth Savings Accounts on Developmental Outcomes for Youth and Household Finances and Well-Being, MasterCard Foundation; Impacts of Early Savings on Youth Economic Opportunities in Ghana; Director, Global Social Development Innovations. Relevant Courses Taught: SOWO 793, Asset Development Practice and Policy; SOWO 881, Development Theory and Practice in Global Settings.
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Lisa Jones Christensen
lisa_christensen@unc.edu
Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Specialization: Microenterprise development including innovations in microfinance, micro insurance and micro franchising. Relevant Experience: Faculty advisor to Kenan-Flagler�s Center for Sustainable Enterprise; Faculty lead for Global STAY Programs. Relevant Courses Taught: BUSI 206, Business in Africa (Study Abroad in Kenya); BUSI 513, Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies; BUSI 515, Social Entrepreneurship through Microfinance; MBA 807E, Sustainability Leadership Capstone.
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Gregory J. Cizek
cizek@unc.edu
Specialization: Evaluation of educational programs.
Claude Clegg
cclegg@email.unc.edu
Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor, History; Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: African-American History, particularly migration, diaspora, nationalism, and social mobilization amongst peoples of African descent. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 130, Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies; AAAD 487, Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies; AAAD 489, African Diaspora Theory and History.
Myron Cohen
myron_cohen@med.unc.edu
Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health; Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases;
Director, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
Specialization: Biology and epidemiology of transmission of STD pathogens, including HIV. Relevant Experience: NIH Fogarty International Training Grant, AIDS International Research and Training Program; HIV Prevention Trials Unit-Malawi; NIH Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
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Shauna Collier
colliers@email.unc.edu
Stone Center Librarian
Specialization: The Stone Center library focuses on the African American experience, Africa, and the African Diaspora, particularly the social sciences and humanities.
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Patrick Conway
patrick_conway@unc.edu
Professor and Chair, Economics
Specialization: Problems of developing and transition economies, the impact of IMF adjustment programs on developing economies, international trade and finance. Relevant Courses Taught: ECON 360, Survey of International and Development Economics; ECON 460/EURO 460/PWAD 460, International Economics; ECON 560, Advanced International Economics.
Amy Cooke
acooke@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Environment and Ecology
Specialization: Political and human ecology in Eastern Africa, natural resources, agriculture and food security issues, and conservation.
Relevant Courses Taught: ENEC 204, Environmental Seminar; ENEC 266, Contemporary Africa: Issues in Health, Population, and the Environment; ENEC 325, Water Resource Management and Human Rights; ENEC 370, Agriculture and the Environment; ENEC 490, Special Topics in Environmental Science and Studies.
Pamela Cooper
pcooper@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature
Relevant Experience: UNC South Africa Study Abroad
Altha Cravey
cravey@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Geography
Specialization: Globalization and work; gender; international development; transnationality and transnational lives.
Relevant Courses Taught: GEOG 056, Local Places in a Globalizing World; GEOG 130, Geographical Issues in the Developing World; GEOG 452, Mobile Geographies: The Political Economy of Migration.
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Alan Cross
Across@unc.edu
Professor, Social Medicine
Specialization: Assessing the effectiveness of community-based interventions to improve infant health; testing methods for improving adolescent health through school and community interventions; improving the delivery of preventive services to low income populations and exploring the dimensions of medical ethics in the doctor patient relationship.
Relevant Courses Taught: Co-director of the first year Medicine and Society course and of the second year Selectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Sian Curtis
sian_curtis@unc.edu
Research Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Women’s health; contraceptive use; maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS programs; international maternal health; infant mortality. Relevant Courses Taught: MHCH 680, Global Sexual and Reproductive Health; MHCH 716, International Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
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Robert Daniels
robert_daniels@unc.edu
Distinguished Associate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Cultural anthropology, social systems, kinship and ethnicity in Africa; use of cybernetic and ecological models to anthropological data, particularly African ethnology; the relationships between individual minds and cultural patterns, age-set systems, (particularly their coordination across acephalous societies), ethnic boundaries, and the influence of the nature of information exchange on such social processes.
Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 57, First Year Seminar: Today in Africa; ANTH 226, Peoples of Africa.
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Sarah Dempsey
sedempse@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Communication Studies
Specialization: Communication, collaboration, and representation in relation to nonprofit, community-based, and gendered forms of organizing. Recent projects investigate the negotiation of accountability and grassroots representation by international NGOs, gendered representations of communication technologies, and the role of difference within transnational feminism. Relevant Courses Taught: COMM 625, Communication and Nonprofits in the Global Context.
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Fabienne Diouf
ngone@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Wolof language instruction.
Relevant Courses Taught: WOLO 401-404.
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Mireille Djenno
mdjenno@email.unc.edu
Librarian for African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, Stone Center
Specialization: Outreach, instruction, and programming; library support for the Stone Center, the Title VI Council Committee, and the Institute of African American Research; development of programs and collections in conjunction with the Wilson Special Collections Library.
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Patricia Dominguez
patricia@email.unc.edu
Humanities Bibliographer, Academic Affairs Library
Specialization: Comparative literature.
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Roberta Ann Dunbar
radunbar@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: African social history; women and development in Africa; Muslim women in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially with regard to law and politics; international studies, public education in relation to African affairs.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 261, African Women: Changing Ideals and Realities; AFRI 262, The Literature of Africa; AFRI 264, African Art and Culture; AFRI 430, Comparative Studies in Culture, Gender and Global Forces; AFRI 522, West Africa: Society and Economy in the Twentieth Century; AFRI 691H/692H, Honors.
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Gina Difino
HonorsBurch@unc.edu
Director, Global Education and Fellowships, Honors Carolina
Specialization: Providing guidance to students embarking on international experiences and working with faculty to develop new programs. Relevant Experience: Coordinates the Burch Fellowship Program, which allows students to design their own internship or research experience anywhere in the world, and Burch Field Research Seminars.
Karine Dube
karine_dube@med.unc.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Ebola and HIV prevention and cure research program management. Relevant Courses Taught: PUBH 711, Critical Issues in Global Public Health; PUBH 712, Global Health Ethics; SPHG 700, Introduction to Global Public Health. Relevant Experience: Research Program Manager, UNC Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases.
Doria El Kerdany
elkerdan@email.unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Professor in Arabic, Asian Studies
Specialization: Egyptian colloquial Arabic; Arabic instruction. Relevant Experience: Coordinator, Arabic Language Program. Relevant Courses Taught: ARAB 101-102, Beginning Arabic; ARAB 203-204, Intermediate Arabic; ARAB 407-408, Readings in Arabic.
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Mohamed Abou El Seoud
mseoud@email.unc.edu
Middle Eastern/African Studies Librarian, University Libraries
Specialization: Resources related to Persian language countries and Northern and Western African countries.
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Ahmed El Shamsy
elshamsy@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, History
Specialization: History of North Africa and the Middle East between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, particularly intellectual history, cultures of orality and literacy, education, and Islamic law.
Relevant Courses Taught: HIST 138, Introduction to Islamic Civilization; HIST 292H, Special Topics in History- Race and Slavery in North Africa; HIST 490, Special Topics in History- 1) Peoples of North Africa 600-1900; 2) History of Islamic Law.
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Michael Emch
emch@unc.edu
W.R. Kenan Jr., Distinguished Professor and Chair, Geography
Specialization: Medical geography; spatial epidemiology. Relevant Experience: Finding Safe Drinking Water to Mitigate Arsenic Contamination, NSF; Combining Xpert and GIS to identify areas of high tuberculosis transmission, NIH; Epidemiological and Spatial Models of Malaria Transmission, NIH. Relevant Courses Taught: GEOG 445, Medical Geography.
Eugenia Eng
eugenia_eng@unc.edu
Professor, Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Integration of community development and health education interventions in rural US and developing nations.
Carl Ernst
cernst@email.unc.edu
William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor, Religious Studies
Specialization: Islamic studies, premodern and contemporary Sufism. Relevant Experience: Co-Director of the UNC-Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. Relevant Courses Taught: RELI 180/ASIA 180, Introduction to Islamic Civilization; RELI 581, Sufism.
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Terence Evens
tmevens@email.unc.edu
Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Social anthropology; phenomenological anthropology; social theory; ethics.
Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 146, The Nature of Moral Consciousness; ANTH 323, Magic, Ritual, and Belief.
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Chris Faison
cdf@unc.edu
Coordinator, UNC Men of Color Engagement, Center for Student Success and Academic Counseling
Specialization: Diversity initiatives; engaging, recruiting, retaining and supporting African-American, American Indian and Latino males through graduation and into their careers.
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Alassane Fall
afall@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: North-South Cooperation between sub-Saharan Africa (particularly francophone) and North America.
Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; WOLO 401, Elementary Wolof I; WOLO 402, Elementary Wolof II.
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Donato Fhunsu
dfhunsu21@unc.edu
Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Comparative literature; African and African Diaspora Literatures (in English, Spanish, French and African languages); literature, religion and spirituality; language acquisition; language pedagogy; Bantu languages: Lingala, Kikongo; Romance languages: French, Spanish; language mediation (translation and interpreting). Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 200/WGST 200, Gender and Sexuality in Africa; AAAD 201, The Literature of Africa; AAAD 421, Introduction to the Languages of Africa; LGLA 401-402, Beginning Lingala; LGLA 403-404, Intermediate Lingala.
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Dominique Fisher
domfisc@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Romance Studies
Specialization: Francophone Studies (The Maghreb, Quebec, and literatures migrantes), Fin-de-siecle literatures, Literary and cultural theory.
Relevant Courses Taught: FREN 375, Francophone Studies; FREN 380, French & Francophone Drama; FREN 381, French & Francophone Poetry; FREN 382, French & Francophone Prose; FREN 615, Readings in Francophone Literature; ROML 054, First Year Seminar: Issues in Francophone Literature.
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Greg Gangi
ggangi@email.unc.edu
Teaching Associate Professor, Environment and Ecology;
Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Education and Field Sites, Institute for the Environment
Specialization: Experiential education; conservation; environmental policy. Relevant Courses Taught: ENEC 325, Water Resource Management and Human Rights; ENEC 490, Special Topics in Environmental Science and Studies.
Cynthia Gay
cynthia_gay@med.unc.edu
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, UNC HIV Cure Center
Specialization: Programmatic detection and management of acute HIV infection (AHI); immunologic and virologic events during AHI to inform vaccine development. Relevant Experience: HIV Vaccine Trials Network/ HIV Prevention Trials Network (2016-Present); NIH/NIAID & AIDS Clinical Trials Unit grants (ongoing-2020).
Luis Marcelino Gomez
lgomez@email.unc.edu
Teaching Associate Professor, Romance Studies
Specialization: Portuguese language instruction; creative writing; Sephardic culture.
Clark Gray
cgray@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Geography
Specialization: Population, environment, and development; survey and statistical methods; interactions between rural livelihoods, household well-being, environmental change; human dimensions of soil degradation. Relevant Courses Taught: ENEC 490, Special Topics: Social Vulnerability to Climate Change (GEOG/ENEC 437).
Suzanne Gulledge
sgulledg@email.unc.edu
Professor, School of Education
Specialization: Middle grades education; curriculum and instruction; pedagogy; reflective practice; supervision; global studies. Relevant Courses Taught: EDUC 526, Ethics and Education: From Global Problems to Classroom Dilemmas.
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Zeina Halabi
halabi@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Specialization: Arabic language instruction. Memory, mourning, and commemoration in literature.
Relevant Courses Taught: Arabic 407, Readings in Arabic I; ARAB 408, Readings in Arabic II
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Mohamed Hamed
mseoud@email.unc.edu
Middle Eastern/African Studies Librarian, University Libraries
Specialization: Resources related to Persian language countries and Northern and Western African countries.
Relevant Courses Taught: ARAB 101, Elementary Arabic; ARAB 308, Arabic Languages Across the Curriculum Recitation.
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Sudhanshu Handa
shanda@email.unc.edu
Lawrence I. Gilbert Distinguished Professor, Public Policy
Specialization: Household economic and demographic behavior in developing countries, particularly the role of public policy in conditioning household demographic choices; Social policy and safety nets; applied development microeconomics. Relevant Experience: 3IE Impact, Long Term Effects of a Cash Transfer Program in Zambia (2017-2019); The Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Labor in Africa, UNICEF (2015-2018); The Poverty and Health Effects of a Large Scale Cook Stove Initiative, NIH (2014-2019). Relevant Courses Taught: PLCY 895, Poverty and Human Resources.
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Mamie Sackey Harris
msackey@email.unc.edu
Africa Programs Manager, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Relevant Experience: Emergency, Relief and Development operations and programs. Six + years professional engagement in Africa. Program Manager – Action Against Hunger (ACF – USA) Southern Sudan : Supplementary and Therapeutic feeding programs, Health Education, Community Based Nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods. Associate Consultant(School Feeding and Education) World Food Program.
Relevant Courses Taught: HPM 660, International and Comparative Health Systems.
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Jennifer Hazen
jmhazen@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Public Policy
Specialization: Counter-terrorism and rebel movements in Africa; conflict dynamics, post-conflict peacebuilding.
Relevant Experience: Consultant, Joint Special Operations University (2015-17); BAE Systems Inc, in support of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM 2011-2015).
James Herrington
jimhsph@email.unc.edu
Professor of the Practice, Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Family planning services, childhood communicable illnesses and vector-borne infectious diseases.
Relevant Experience: Executive Director, Strategic and Emerging Global Partnerships, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Irving Hoffman
irving_hoffman@med.unc.edu
Professor, School of Medicine
Specialization: STD therapy in developing countries; STD health care, administration and policy. Relevant Experience: International Director, UNC Project-Malawi; Director of International Operations, UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.
Donald Hornstein
dhornste@email.unc.edu
Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, School of Law
Specialization: Environmental law; administrative law; insurance law; natural resources law; international rivers.
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Nasser Isleem
nmisleem@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Asian Studies (on leave 2013-14)
Specialization: Arabic language instruction and translation.
Relevant Courses Taught: Elementary, intermediate and conversational Arabic, including Egyptian dialect class.
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Fatimah Jackson
fatimahj@email.unc.edu
Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Human biological consequences of cultural choices, historic events, and environmental exposures; genetics; demographics history; dietary patterns; health disparities.
Relevant Experience: Director of the Institute of African-American Research (IAAR); Genomic Models Research Group; Co-founded the first human DNA bank in Africa.
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Mina Hosseinipour
mina_hosseinipour@med.unc.edu
Professor, School of Medicine
Specialization: Management of HIV disease in developing countries including prevention, interactions with endemic diseases, treatment of opportunistic infections including malignancies and monitoring strategies for antiretroviral therapy.
Pamela Jagger
pjagger@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Public Policy
Specialization: Role of environmental income in poverty reduction and societal inequality; household level outcomes of forest sector decentralization; natural resource institutions and poverty reduction. Relevant Experience: Director of the FUEL Lab (Forest Use Energy and Livelihoods); PI, NSF and PIRE: Confronting Energy Poverty: Building an Interdisciplinary Evidence Base, Network, and Capacity for Transformative Change (2017-2022). Relevant Courses Taught: PLCY 89, First Year Seminar: Energy Poverty; PLCY 475/ENEC 475, Political Economy of Food; PLCY 520/ENEC 520, Environment and Development; PLCY 799: Collaborative Research on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation.
Lauren Jarvis
ljarvis@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, History
Specialization: History of religion in sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on twentieth-century South Africa; Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa. Relevant Courses Taught: HIST 130, Modern African History; HIST 279, Modern South Africa; HIST 340, Ethics and Business in Africa; HIST 534, The African Diaspora; HIST 815, Topics in African History.
Robert Jenkins
rjenkins@email.unc.edu
Senior Lecturer, Political Science
Relevant Experience: UNC South Africa Study Abroad
Joseph Jordan
jfjordan@email.unc.edu
Director, Sonja H. Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Specialization: Cultural politics of race, identity and artistic production in the African diaspora, explored through representations in visual and other creative arts. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 284, Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas; AAAD 340, Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics.
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Charles Joukhadar
cjoukhad@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, Asian Studies
Specialization: Arabic language instruction.
Relevant Courses Taught: ARAB 101, ARAB 102, ARAB 203, ARAB 204 (Elementary and Intermediate Arabic).
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Waithera Karim-Sesay
waithera@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Swahili instruction, African history.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, Introduction to Africa; Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Kiswahili; AFRI 266, Contemporary Africa; ANTH 319, Global Health (INTS 319).
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William Kamkwamba
wkamkwamba@widernet.org
Youth Program Designer/Coordinator, WiderNet Project
Specialization: Environmental science, solar and wind powered energy and water purification systems; eGranary digital systems. Relevant Experience: Instructor, Chichewa Workshop; Maker Faire Africa (2009) TED Global (2007).
Mark Katz
mkatz@email.unc.edu
Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Music; Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Specialization: Music and technology, contemporary popular music, musical diplomacy.
Relevant Experience: U.S. Department of State ($3.3 million) funding to create and run Next Level, a program that sends American hip-hop artists abroad, including to African nations, to foster cultural exchange, conflict prevention, and entrepreneurship.
Alan (Bud) Kauffman
budk@email.unc.edu
Lecturer in Arabic, Asian Studies
Specialization: The effects of non-traditional grammar sequencing on students� written output; incorporation of culture in Arabic courses via films, authentic texts, music; student engagement. Relevant Courses Taught: ARAB 101-102, Elementary Arabic; ARAB 305-306, Advanced Arabic.
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Jay Kaufman
jay_kaufman@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Epidemiologic methods; chronic disease burden in the developing world; health services research; minority
health and health disparities; reproductive health; cardiovascular disease.
Relevant Experience: Dissertation research in Nigeria; Visiting Researcher, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, 1993-1994.
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Thomas Kelley
takelley@email.unc.edu
Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Specialization: African customary law; law and development; comparative law; law of emerging nations; law of nonprofit organizations and philanthropy; and community development law. Relevant Experience: Faculty Supervisor, Community Development Law Clinic. Relevant Courses Taught: LAW 457, African Law and Development.
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Charles Kurzman
kurzman@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Sociology
Specialization: Islam; democracy.
Relevant Courses Taught: SOCI 419, Sociology of the Islamic World.
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Tanya Kinsella
tekinsel@email.unc.edu
Academic Program Coordinator, Languages Across the Curriculum
Relevant Courses Taught: GLBL 789, Teaching Languages Across the Curriculum.
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Jason Kinnear
jkinnear@email.unc.edu
Deputy Director/Interim Director, UNC Study Abroad
Specialization: Education abroad, service-learning and community engagement, program development and administration.
Michael Lambert
mlambert@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Political anthropology, warfare, nationalism, migration, urbanization. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 214, Ethnography of Africa; AAAD 315, Political Protest and Conflict in Africa; AAAD 412, Regional Seminar in African Studies; AAAD 487, Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies.
Valerie Lambert
vlambert@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Indigenous peoples, with a focus on American Indians of the United States. Relevant Experience: Ethnographic field research among the Nama and Khoi San tribes of southern Africa. Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 102, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; ANTH 306, Water and Inequality.
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Christopher Lee
cjlee1@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, History
Specialization: Modern Southern Africa.
Relevant Experience: Fieldwork in Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, and Mozambique.
Relevant Courses Taught: HIST 067, First-Year Seminar: Life Histories from 20th-Century South Africa; HIST 175H, Honors Seminar in Third World History; HIST 279 Modern South Africa; HIST 301, Screening History: Africa at the Movies; HIST 379, Race, Segregation, and Political Protest in South Africa and the U.S.; HIST 393, Undergraduate Seminar in History (Third World/Non-Western): Section Title-Race and Racism in the Modern World; HIST 540, African Intellectual History: Discourse, Knowledge, Politics; HIST 541, African Environmental History: Ecology, Economy, and Politics; HIST 542, Development in Africa and its Discontents; HIST 543, Histories of Health and Healing in Africa; HIST 722, Readings in Contemporary Global History; HIST 890, Topics in History for Graduates, Section Title: The Postcolonial World: History, Theory, Politics.
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Margaret C. Lee
leemc@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Africa and the international trade regime; Southern African politics; regional integration in Africa; African political economy.
Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 212, Africa in the Global System; AAAD 290, Topics in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies; AAAD 301, Contemporary China-Africa Relations; AAAD 307, 21st Century Scramble for Africa.
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Donna LeFebvre
lefebvre@unc.edu
Senior Lecturer/Director of Internships, Political Science
Specialization: International criminal court, crimes against humanity and war crimes; human rights; violence against women, U.S. and globally.
Relevant Courses Taught: POLI 449, Human Rights and International Criminal Law; Burch Field Research Seminar: Rwanda and The Hague: Study Abroad with 6 credit hours which transfer as HNRS 354/POLI 449 and HNRS 352.
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Paul Leslie
pwleslie@unc.edu
Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Demography and reproduction, population biology/population genetics, and Sub-Saharan African pastoralism.
Lisa Lindsay
lalindsa@email.unc.edu
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, History
Specialization: Social history of colonial Africa; the Atlantic slave trade; the African Diaspora; Nigeria. Relevant Courses Taught: HIST 83, First Year Seminar: African History through Popular Music; HIST 130, Modern African History; HIST 174H, Honors Seminar in African, Asian, and Middle Eastern History; HIST 243, The United States and Africa; HIST 278, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade; HIST 390, Topics in History; HIST 534: The African Diaspora; HIST 535, Women and Gender in African History; HIST 815, Topics in African History; HIST 890, Topics in History for Graduates Section title: Readings in the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
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Esther Mukewa Lisanza
lisanza@email.unc.edu
African Languages Coordinator; Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Literacy development among second language learners.
Relevant Experience: Examination of how Kenyan children participate in speaking, reading and writing practices in English and Swahili.
Relevant Courses Taught: SWAH 401, Elementary Kiswahili I; SWAH 402, Elementary Kiswahili II; AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa.
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Winfred (Winnie) K. Luseno
luseno@email.unc.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Maternal & Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Adolescents, school-age children and vulnerable women at-risk of HIV infection or already infected with HIV, HIV prevention, HIV health services utilization, and health policy.
Scott Madry
madrys@email.unc.edu
Research Associate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Applications of remote sensing, GIS, GPS, and spatial analysis for cultural and environmental studies; disaster response and planning; and archaeological predictive modeling; Application of advanced space technologies for complex regional issues such as land use and human settlement patterns over time, including how societies respond to and prepare for disasters. Relevant Experience: Fulbright Specialist at University of Cape Town’s (UCT) SpaceLab to improve disaster management and map fires, floods, and deforestation quickly.
Carol Magee
cmagee@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor and Chair, Art and Art History
Specialization: History of contemporary and traditional African art; how Americans come to know and understand Africa through US culture; African photography, Cityscapes. Relevant Courses Taught: ARTH 155, African Art Survey; ARTH 255, African Art and Culture; ARTH 280, Picture That: History of Photography from Tintypes to Instragram; ARTH 300, Art of African Independence; ARTH 353/AAAD 319/ANTH 343, Africa and Masks; ARTH 453/AAAD 486, Africa in the American Imagination; ARTH 488/AAAD 405, Contemporary African Art; ARTH 555, Urban Africa and Global Mobility; ARTH 957, Graduate Seminar in African Art: African Modernisms.
Arvind Malhotra
Arvind_Malhotra@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
H. Allen Andrew Professor of Entrepreneurial Education, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Specialization: The impact of digital innovations, knowledge management, virtual teams and inter-organizational partnerships; adoption of innovative technologies.
Suzanne Maman
maman@email.unc.edu
Professor, Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Public Health; HIV/AIDS; Sub-Saharan Africa. Relevant Experience: NIH: A dyad approach to combination HIV prevention in pregnancy for Zambia and Malawi (2016-2020); NSF: Expanding our theoretical understanding of youth violence by examining neighborhood and peer network influences (2017-2019); NIH: Secondary distribution of HIV self-tests by female sex workers (2016-2021).
Lucy Martin
lemartin@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Specialization: Taxation, development, & accountability in sub-Saharan Africa. Relevant Experience: Governance Project-Innovations for Poverty Action Uganda (ongoing). Relevant Courses Taught: POLI 431, African Politics and Societies.
Rainier Masa
rmasa@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Specialization: Economic and social aspects of health in low-resource communities; HIV Prevention and treatment; social protection and assets; international social development. Relevant Experience: Ghana YouthSave Experiment; Researcher: Global Social Development Innovations Center, UNC-Chapel Hill. Relevant Courses Taught: SOWO 835, Poverty Policy; SOWO 881, Community Practice: Global Perspectives Development Practice in International Settings.
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Timothy McKeown
tim_mckeown@unc.edu
Professor, Political Science
Specialization: International relations; international political economy; U.S. foreign policy.
Relevant Courses Taught: POLI 252, International Organizations and Global Issues; POLI 254, International Environmental Politics.
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Dale McKinley
drdalet@metroweb.co.za
Adjunct Associate Professor, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: National liberation strategies and tactics of the African National Congress; United States foreign policy with South Africa; Effects of globalization and privatization Sub-Saharan Africa.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 265, Africa in the Global System (online; taught from South Africa).
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Timothy Mcmillan
tjm1@email.unc.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Afro-American History; East Africa; Haiti.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, Introduction to Africa; AFRI 263, African Belief Systems: Religion and Philosophy in Sub-Saharan Africa; AFRI/AFAM 474, Key Issues in African and Afro-American Linkages.
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Joseph Megel
megel@email.unc.edu
Senior Lecturer / Artist in Residence, Communication Studies
Specialization: Direction and development of new works for theatre, film, and video. Relevant Experience: Research in Tanzania. Direction and development of new works for theatre, film, and video. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 290, Special Topics: Performing the Politics of Water.
Benjamin Meier
meierb@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Global Health Policy; Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Professor, Public Policy
Specialization: Global health policy; Health services and systems regulation; law and ethics of public health research; international and comparative public health law; public policy for health. Relevant Experience: Technical Lead: CDC, Assessing Foreign Public Health Legal Landscape to Facilitate Achievement of U.S. Global Health Security Goals (2015-2016). Relevant Courses Taught: PLCY 565/HPM 565, Global Health Policy; PLCY 570/HPM 571 Health and Human Rights.
Hassan Melehy
hmelehy@unc.edu
Professor of French, Romance Studies
Specialization: Early modern French and comparative literary studies. Relevant Courses Taught: FREN 260, Literature and the French-Speaking World.
Steven Meshnick
meshnick@email.unc.edu
Professor and Associate Chair, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Malaria; Mother-to-child transmission of HIV; African trypanosomiasis, surveillance; AIDS-associated opportunistic infections. Relevant Experience: Visiting Professor, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi (2003- present); Principal Investigator: Epidemiological and Spatial Models of Malaria Transmission (2014-2019); Principal Investigator: Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine IPTp [antimalarial] in Malawi: Effects on the gut and vaginal moicrobiomes (2016-18). Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 756, Control of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries.
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Margaret Miles
mmiles@email.unc.edu
Research Professor, School of Nursing
Specialization: African American women with HIV; health disparity research; parents of infants and children with serious health problems; mothers with preterm infants; bereavement in widows whose husbands died of HIV in Cameroon; African American custodial grandparents.
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William Miller
Bill_Miller@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: International health; sexually transmitted diseases; women’s health.
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Nathan Ndege Mogaka
nmogaka@email.unc.edu
Lecturer; African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Kiswahili language instruction.
Relevant Courses Taught: SWAH 401.
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Cliff Missen
missenc@email.unc.edu
Clinical Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Science
Specialization: E-Resources and digital library projects in Africa. Relevant Experience: Director, The WiderNet Project. Relevant Courses Taught: INLS 539, Going the Last Mile: Information Access for Underserved Populations
Beth Moracco
moracco@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Heath
Specialization: Prevention of gender-based violence in the U.S. and global settings. Relevant Experience: Co-investigator on studies focused on the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Alphonse Mutima
smutima@email.unc.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Kiswahili curriculum development; pedagogy; Lingala instruction; second language acquisition; language variation. Relevant Courses Taught: SWAH 112, Intensive Kiswahili 1-2; SWAH 234, Intensive Kiswahili 3-4; SWAH 401-402, Beginning Kiswahili; SWAH 403-404, Intermediate Kiswahili; SWAH 405-406, Advanced Kiswahili; SWAH 408, Kiswahili LAC; LGLA 401-402, Beginning Lingala; LGLA 403-404, Intermediate Lingala.
Mohamed Mwamzandi
mymzandi@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Pragmatics, morpho-syntax, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, language documentation and preservation. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 421, Introduction to the Languages of Africa; SWAH 401-402, Beginning Kiswahili; SWAH 403-404, Intermediate Kiswahili; SWAH 405-406, Advanced Kiswahili; SWAH 408, Kiswahili LAC.
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Adamson Muula
muula@email.unc.edu
Conprehensive Cancer Center, and Language Instructor for Malawi Program
Specialization: Treatment of infectious diseases; public health.
Relevant Courses Taught: Chichewa language instruction.
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Julius Nyang�oro
jen321@email.unc.edu
Professor, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Comparative international political economy; African politics, law and development.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 190, Topics in African Studies; AFRI 266, Contemporary Africa: Issues in Health, Population, and the Environment; AFRI 296, Independent Study in African Studies; AFRI 370, Policy Problems in African Studies; AFRI 520, Contemporary Southern Africa; AFRI 521, East African Society and Environment; AFRI 691H-692H, Honors Research I-II.
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Chérie Rivers Ndaliko
ndaliko@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Music
Specialization: Creative culture in conflict regions/DRC; artistic radicalism and domination; media and socio-political action; aesthetics of humanitarian aid; radical arts interventions in conflict regions. Relevant Experience: Executive Director of the Yole! Africa Cultural Center and the Congo International Film Festival, both located in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Relevant Courses Taught: MUSC 89, Making and Marketing Music in the Digital Age; MUSC 148, Introduction to Black Music; MUSC 286, Music as Culture; MUSC 291, Music and Politics; MUSC 292, Media and Social Change in Africa; MUSC 970, Seminar in Ethnomusicology.
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
nzongola@email.unc.edu
Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: African politics; governance; development policy and administration. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 212, Africa in the Global System; AAAD 290, Topics in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies; AAAD 396, Independent Study; AAAD 400, The Challenges of Democratic Governance in Africa; AAAD 412, Regional Seminar in African Studies; AAAD 487, Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies.
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Todd Ochoa
tochoa@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Specialization: African-inspired religions in Latin America and the Caribbean; Cuban-Kongo societies of affliction; materiality; Creolization and racialization; critical ethnographic practice.
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Rita O’Sullivan
ritao@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, School of Education
Specialization: Educational program evaluation; research design; qualitative measurement; collaborative evaluation techniques; case study methods; program evaluation assistance and training for local, state, national and international organizations.
Roberta A. (Bobbi) Owen
owenbob@unc.edu
Michael R. McVaugh Distinguished Professor, Dramatic Art
Specialization: Costume and clothing history; traditional dress (garments) in Africa and Asia; theatrical design and designers. Relevant Courses Taught: DRAM 475, Costume History: Africa, Asia, and Arabia.
Max Owre
owre@email.unc.edu
Lecturer, History; Executive Director, Carolina Public Humanities
Specialization: Early 19th century French politics. Relevant Courses Taught: HIST 130, Modern African History; HIST 312, History of France and Algeria; HIST 390, Topics in History.
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Kathy Perkins
kaperkin@email.unc.edu
Professor, Dramatic Art
Specialization: Africa/African Diaspora Theatre, Multi-Ethnic Theatre, Lighting Design.
Relevant Courses Taught: DRAM 117, Perspectives in World Drama; DRAM 298, African Women in Theater; DRAM 489, Carnivals and Festivals of the African Diaspora.
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Lauren Persha
lpersha@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Geography; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environment and Ecology
Specialization: Conservation and development, social-ecological systems, institutional analysis, environmental governance, forest ecology, political ecology, East Africa
Relevant Courses Taught: GEOG 268, Geography of Africa; ECOL 567, Ecological Analysis and Application.
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Alicia Pena
alicia.pena@unc.edu
Program Director for Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, UNC Study Abroad
Specialization: Establish, manage, and promote all study abroad programs in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
Susan Pennybacker
pennybac@email.unc.edu
Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History
Specialization: The political culture of modern Britain and the former British empire, including archival research and ethnographic study in the UK, New Delhi, Port of Spain, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Relevant Experience: Led UNC Study Abroad in Cape Town (2017).
Audrey Pettifor
apettif@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: HIV prevention among young women in South Africa; structural interventions for HIV prevention; behaviors of individuals with Acute HIV Infection and behavioral interventions. Relevant Experience: NIH collaboration/training grant to create a new Masters of Science with a concentration in epidemiology at Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg (2014-2019); Principal Investigator, NIH, Multilevel mechanisms of HIV acquisition in young South African women (2016-2017). Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 755, Introduction to Infectious Disease Epidemiology; EPID 756, Control of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries.
John Pickles
jpickles@unc.edu
Earl N. Phillips Distinguished Professor, Geography
Specialization: Regional development; post-socialism; economic geographies and industrial change; apparel industry; migration and borders in Euro-Med; research and teaching focus primarily on issues of geographical and social change.
Relevant Courses Taught: GEOG 805, Research Seminar in International Area Studies, Development, and Globalization.
David Pier
dpier@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: African music, politics of cultural production in Africa, ethnomusicology, music and dance in Uganda.
Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 290, Topics in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies; AAAD 318, Politics of Cultural Production in Africa; AAAD 320, Music of Africa; AAAD 487, Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies.
Barry Popkin
popkin@unc.edu
W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Economic and epidemiological analysis of trends in dietary intake, physical activity and body composition around the world; obesity economics and epidemiology. Relevant Courses Taught: NUTR 745, International Nutrition.
Rohit Ramaswamy
ramaswam@email.unc.edu
Director, Center for Global Learning; Clinical Associate Professor, Public Health Leadership Program; Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Program process management, statistical analysis, and organizational development. Methods and tools for implementation of global health programs, quality improvement of health systems, use of technology. Relevant Experience: Children�s International Foundation, Centers of Excellence for Newborn Care in Ghana (2013-2018); Applied Public Health Informatics, University of Zambia (2017); Continuous Quality Improvement Program, Ghana, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso (2014-2016); Faculty Director, Global Online MPH (2015-pres); Assoc. Director, Global Practice, Gillings Global Gateway (2016-pres). Relevant Courses Taught: PUBH 711, Critical Issues in Global Public Health; PUBH 714, Introduction to Monitoring and Evaluation of Global Health Programs; PUBH 718, Designing Systems for Global Health Implementation.
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Monica Rector
rector@email.unc.edu
Professor, Romance Studies
Specialization: Luso-Brazilian literature, language and culture, female writers, semiotics and non-verbal communication, Brazil, Portugal; Lusophone African Literature.
Relevant Courses Taught: PORT 388, Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identities in Film.
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Peter Redfield
redfield@email.unc.edu
Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Anthropology of science, technology and medicine; humanitarianism and human rights; ethics, French Guiana; Uganda; South Africa. Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 147, Comparative Healing Systems; ANTH 280/PWAD 280, Anthropology of War and Peace; ANTH 422, Anthropology of Human Rights.
Stuart Rennie
stuart_rennie@dentistry.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Social Medicine, School of Medicine
Specialization: Research ethics and bioethics in the developing world. Relevant Experience: NIH/Fogarty Awards: Strengthening Bioethics Capacity and Justice in Health (2014-2017); Unintended and intended implications of HIV cure research (2013-2018); Ethics of HIV-Related Research Involving Adolescents in Kenya (2014-2017); Ethics consultant, Save the Children USA (2014-present).
Andrew Reynolds
asreynol@email.unc.edu
Professor, Political Science
Specialization: Democratic design; ethnic conflict; plural societies; Africa. Relevant Courses Taught: POLI 67, First Year Seminar: Designing Democracy; POLI 131, Political Change and Modernization; POLI 431, African Politics and Society.
Paul Roberge
ptr@email.unc.edu
Professor, Germanic Languages and Linguistics
Specialization: Historical linguistics; pidgin and creole languages; language and society; Germanic languages; Afrikaans. Relevant Courses Taught: GERM 125, Afrikaans I; GERM 240, Afrikaans II; GERM 252, South Africa in Literary Perspective; LING 542/ANTH 542, Pidgins and Creoles.
Kevin Robertson
RobertsonKevin@neurology.unc.edu
Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine; Director, AIDS Neurological Center
Specialization: HIV associated neurocognitive disorders and the neurology of AIDS; faculty affiliate: Institute of Global Health and Infectious Diseases.
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Richard Rosen
rich_rosen@unc.edu
Professor and Senior Associate Dean, School of Law
Specialization: Criminal law.
Relevant Experience: Fulbright Lecturer-University of Asmara, Eritrea. (1995-1996); Consultant-drafting of Eritrean Criminal Procedure Code. (1998-2005).
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Victoria L. Rovine
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Professor, Art and Art History
Specialization: African fashion design, textiles, and contemporary arts in Africa. Relevant Courses Taught: ARTH 155, African Art Survey; ARTH 200/CLAR 200, Art and Fashion from Rome to Timbuktu; ARTH 297, Clothing and Textiles in Africa; ARTH 299, Arts of West Africa; ARTH 303, Art and Colonialism: France in Africa/Africa in France; ARTH 488/AAAD 405, Contemporary African Art; ARTH 750, Advanced Readings: Topics in the History of Art; ARTH 957, Seminar in African Art.
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John Rutledge
jbr@email.unc.edu
Bibliographer, Academic Affairs Library
Relevant Africa Focus: Chief selector for library material published in the Mahgreb and in the Middle East; approval program with the Library of Congress, which brings in books in Arabic.
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Omid Safi
omid@email.unc.edu
Professor, Religious Studies
Specialization: Islamic Studies with a focus on Iran, Turkey, and United States; Medieval Iranian Islam; Modern Islamic thought.
Relevant Courses Taught: RELI 181, Later Islamic Civilization and Modern Muslim Cultures.
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Eunice Sahle
eunice@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor and Chair, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: International political economy; international relations; comparative political economy of development. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 212, Africa in the Global System; AAAD 318, Politics of Cultural Production in Africa; AAAD 403, Human Rights: Theories and Practices in Africa; AAAD 412, Regional Seminar in African Studies; AAAD 485, Black Atlantic Crosscurrents; AAAD 691H, Honors Research I; AAAD 692H, Honors Research II; GLBL 405, Comparative Political Economics of Development.
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Mamarame Seck
mseck@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
African Languages Coordinator, African Studies Center
Specialization: Wolof language instruction and curriculum development; Wolof language and literature; African linguistics; Sufi Islam in West Africa; Wolof oral discourse.
Relevant Experience: Leads UNC Study Abroad to Senegal. Wolof consultant for Centre for Text Technology North-West University, South Africa. This project is a part of Microsoft�s Local Language Program, a global initiative to provide desktop software and tools to their customers by collaborating with local experts (governments, universities, and other interested parties); Wolof instructor at SCALI (Summer Cooperative African Language Institute); participant at workshop on Standards/Curriculum development and Evaluation guidelines at the National African Language Resource Center (NALRC), University of Wisconsin, Madison as co-writer of Wolof standards.
Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 421, Introduction to the Languages of Africa; WOLO 403, Intermediate Wolof 3; WOLO 404 Intermediate Wolof 4.
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Friederike Seeger
fseeger@unc.edu
Director, Burch Programs & Honors Study Abroad
Specialization: International program mangement and development.
Relevant Experience: Honors program development and management in South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, and Uganda.
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Joti Sekhon
sekhonj@wssu.edu
Director of International Programs, Winston-Salem State University (partner institution).
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Brigitte Seim
bseim@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Public Policy
Specialization: Accountability in consolidating democracies; strategic responses of political officials to anti-corruption interventions. Relevant Experience: USAID, Impact Evaluation of Local Government Accountability Program (LGAP) in Malawi (2016); Department for International Development (DfID) Impact Assessment of the Law Enforcement Response to Cashgate (2016). Relevant Courses Taught: GLBL 88/89H, First-Year Seminar: Beg, Borrow, and Steal: The Political Economy of Aid, FDI, and Corruption; PLCY 110, Global Policy Issues; PLCY 581, Research Design for Public Policy; GLBL 701, Political Economy of Development.
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Bereket Selassie
bselassi@email.unc.edu
William E. Luchtenburg Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies; and Professor of Law
Specialization: African law, politics, and history; law and development; constitutional law; politics of development; international law of human rights.
Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 52, First-Year Seminar: Kings, Presidents, and Generals: Africa�s Bumpy Road to Democracy; AAAD 101, Introduction to Africa; AAAD 316, Policy Problems in Africa; AAAD 412, Regional Seminar in African Studies; AAAD 419, African Studies Colloquium; AAAD 485, Black Atlantic Crosscurrents.
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Yaron Shemer
yshemer@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Specialization: Israeli cinema; Middle Eastern cinema; ethnicity and representation; Modern Hebrew; filmmaking.
Relevant Courses Taught: ASIA 435, The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa.
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Khalid Shahu
kshahu1971@unc.edu
Lecturer in Arabic, Asian Studies
Specialization: Arabic instruction, Morocco. Relevant Experience: Arabic Language Placement Test Coordinator and Co-Founder of the Arabic Club, UNC Chapel Hill (2012-present); Imam, Apex Mosque. Relevant Courses Taught: ARAB 101-102, Elementary Arabic; ARAB 203-204, Intermediate Arabic.
Daniel Sherman
dsherman@email.unc.edu
Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art and History
Specialization: Museums, monuments and commemorative practices; the connections between archaeology, empire, and the media.
Sarah Shields
sshields@email.unc.edu
Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, History
Specialization: Nationalism in the Middle East; Islamic civilization; Middle East history; economic and social history of the Ottoman Arab provinces. Relevant Courses Taught: HIST 62, First Year Seminar: Nations, Borders, and Identities; HIST 138/ASIA 138, History of Muslim Societies to 1500; HIST 139/ASIA 139, History of Muslim Societies since 1500; HIST 202, Borders and Crossings; HIST 276/ASIA 276, The Modern Middle East; HIST 890, Graduate Seminar- Section Title: Diversity and Conformity in Muslim Societies.
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Tanya Shields
tshields@unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
Specialization: Caribbean literature and Caribbean nation-building.
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Kavita Singh-Ongechi
singhk@email.unc.edu
Research Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Relevant Experience: FHI 360, Alive and Thrive Impact Evaluation in Nigeria (2016-2019); Understanding the Impact of Stigma on Female Survivors of Ebola (2016-2017); Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Evaluation of a Maternal and Newborn Quality Improvement Project in Ethiopia (2016-2018); Cargill Foundation, Evaluation of a Maternal and Newborn Quality Improvement Project in Pastoral Ethiopia (2016-2018); Senior Technical Advisor for Maternal and Child Health, MEASURE Evaluation, Carolina Population Center (2011-present). Relevant Courses Taught: MHCH 722, Global Maternal and Child Health.
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Beverly Sizemore
bevsize@email.unc.edu
Director of International Programs, School of Law
Specialization: Developing opportunities for students interested in international law to enhance their legal education through exchange programs and study abroad.
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Latoya Small
latoyasm@unc.edu
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Specialization: Maternal and child mental health; South Africa; HIV/AIDS; behavioral health; LGBTQ youth.
Project Director, Vuka Family Program: Supporting Perinatally HIV-infected Youth in South Africa.
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Jennifer S. Smith
jsssmith@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Infectious disease and reproductive health epidemiology, with a particular focus on human papillomavirus and herpes simplex virus type-2; studies of HPV in less-developed countries. Relevant Experience: NIH, Effect of HPV Self-Collection on Cervical Cancer Screening in High Risk Women (2015-2020); CDC, Strengthening and Implementing Cervical Cancer Control and Public Health Research in Kenya (2016-2021). Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 760, Vaccine Epidemiology.
Jacqueline Solis
jsolis@email.unc.edu
Director of Research and Instructional Services, UNC Libraries
Specialization: Provide vision and strategic direction for research and instructional services in the humanities, social sciences, global and area studies, and the arts. Relevant Experience: Africa and Middle East library acquisitions; Global Engagement at HSL Working Group/Health Sciences Library Global Initiatives Advisory Committee (2012-2016).
Ilene Speizer
speizer@email.unc.edu
Research Professor, Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Research and evaluation studies on family planning, HIV prevention, intimate partner violence and adolescent reproductive health programs. Relevant Experience: Co-Principal Investigator and Technical Deputy Director for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Measurement, Learning and Evaluation for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative project; PI, NURHI Sustainability Study, Nigeria (2016-2018); MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV-Global Monitoring and Evaluation Project, Role: Investigator (leading evaluation in South Africa), Principal Investigator: James Thomas (2014-2019).
David Steeb
dsteeb@email.unc.edu
Director of Global Engagement and Clinical Assistant Professor, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Specialization: Global pharmacy education and training, curriculum development in pharmacy and global health. Relevant Experience: Directs the UNC Global Pharmacy Scholars program, which provides pharmacy students with the opportunity to do an international rotation in Australia, England, Japan, Malawi, and Moldova.
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John Stewart
jfstewar@email.unc.edu
Professor, Economics
Specialization: Industrial organization and antitrust; health economics; health issues in less developed countries.
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Ronald Strauss
ron_strauss@unc.edu
Executive Vice Provost; Chief International Officer; Professor, Social Medicine, School of Medicine;
Dental Friends Distinguished Professor of Dental Ecology, School of Dentistry
Specialization: Social and psychological impacts of facial differences and craniofacial conditions; stigmatization; cleft palate and craniofacial prosthetic management; ethical issues in research; Malawi Dental Project. Relevant Experience: Global programs and partnerships at UNC; Faculty Advisor to the UNC Malawi Dental Project. Relevant Courses Taught: PUBH 420, AIDS: Principles and Practices; PUBH 720, The AIDS Course.
Jeffrey Stringer
jeff_stringer@unc.edu
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine; Director, Division of Global Women’s Health
Specialization: Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission, HIV/AIDS clinical trials and epidemiology. Relevant Experience: Founded the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ); PI of multiple grants (> $190 million as PI) and cooperative agreements, including CIDRZ’s large CDC PEPFAR award and HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Unit funded by NIAID.
Gretchen Stuart
gstuart@med.unc.edu
Professor, School of Medicine; Chief, Division of Family Planning, School of Medicine
Specialization: Sexually transmitted infection, HIV/AIDS and contraception, family planning. Relevant Experience: UNC Malawi research team; Technical Consultant, World Health Organization (2015).
Angela Stuesse
astuesse@unc.edu
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Neoliberal globalization; race, ethnicity, and identity; migration; human rights; labor; methodologies of activist research; the U.S. South and Southwest; Equatorial Guinea.
Relevant Courses Taught: GLBL 703, Global Migration and Labor Rights.
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Chirayath Suchindran
suchindran@unc.edu
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Statistical demography; family planning evaluation; aging; cardiovascular disease; global health.
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John Sweet
sweet@unc.edu
Associate Professor, History
Specialization: The dynamics of colonialism and the interplay of religious cultures.
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Luke Swindler
luke_swindler@unc.edu
Librarian/Social Science Bibliographer, Academics Affairs Library
Specialization: Librarianship; history; publishing.
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Ibrahima Sy
Lecturer, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: Language and culture of Africa.
Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 318, Politics of Cultural Production in Africa; WOLO 401-402, Beginning Wolof; WOLO 403-404, Intermediate Wolof.
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Kristine Taylor
kristitl@email.unc.edu
Teaching Assistant Professor of Portuguese, Romance Studies
Specialization: Foreign language teaching techniques, translation, cinema and Mozambican cultural production.
Relevant Courses Taught: PORT 203, Intermediate Portuguese I; PORT 388, Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identity in Film.
James Thomas
jim_thomas@unc.edu
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Director, MEASURE Evaluation Project, Carolina Population Center
Specialization: Social Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS, evaluation of structural interventions, public health ethics.
Relevant Experience: Director, MEASURE Evaluation Project, Carolina Population Center; USAID, MEASURE Evaluation Phase IV $180,000,000 (2014-2019); MEASURE Evaluation Phase III, Kenya Project $35,000,000 (2012-2017).
Silvia Tomaskova
tomas@unc.edu
Professor of Anthropology, Professor and Chair of Women’s & Gender Studies
Specialization: Archaeological method and theory; Social and gender archaeology; Old World prehistory, Paleolithic archaeology; Prehistoric imagery, theories of symbolic representation. Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 222/WGST 222, Prehistoric Art.
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Charles Van der Horst
charles_vanderhorst@med.unc.edu
Professor, Medicine; Associate Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Specialization: HIV in Africa, primarily Malawi and South Africa; the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV.
Relevant Experience: Principal investigator of a CDC-funded study examining the factors influencing the morbidity of HIV positive women who are breast feeding in Malawi; supervises the prevention of mother to child transmission program at the Lilongwe District Health Centers; co-investigator of an NIAID/CIPRA grant to create a consortium of three medical schools in South Africa to conduct HIV and Infectious Diseases translational and clinical research.
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Annelies Van Rie
vanrie@email.unc.edu
Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Professor, Social Medicine, School of Medicine
Specialization: International health; tuberculosis and HIV; pediatric HIV care. Relevant Experience: NIH, Combining Xpert and GIS to Identify Areas with High TB Transmission (2014-2019).
Gretchen Van Vliet
gretchen_vanvliet@unc.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Global health, health communication, public health leadership. Relevant Experience: Director, Business Development, FHI 360 (2012-present); Director of the UNC Office of Global Health (2007-2011). Relevant Courses Taught: PUBH 711, Critical Issues in Global Public Health.
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Rodney Vargas
rvargas@email.unc.edu
Latin America, Africa, and Mid-East Program Director, Study Abroad Office.
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Dorothy Verkerk
dverkerk@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Art
Specialization: Early medieval art; leading Burch Seminar in Morocco.
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Richard Vernon
rmvernon@email.unc.edu
Teaching Associate Professor of Portuguese, Romance Studies
Specialization: Street literature/Children’s literature, Portuguese and Spanish language instruction. Relevant Courses Taught: PORT 385, Lusophone Africa in Literature: Discovery to the Present.
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Judith Wegner
judith_wegner@unc.edu
Professor, School of Law
Specialization: Law; higher education.
Relevant Experience: Worked to create linkage program with University of Asmara, Eritrea
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Sharon Weir
sharon_weir@unc.edu
Research Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Specialization: Social aspects of HIV transmission in developing countries. Relevant Experience: Senior Measurement and Evaluation Specialist, MEASURE Evaluation Project. Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 757, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries.
Colin West
ctw@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Human ecology of global change; societal adaptation to the twin processes of global environmental and social change. Relevant Experience: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Borlaug Leadership Enhancement in Agriculture Program, Identifying Sustainable Pathways to Climate Change Adaptation in African Drylands (2016-2017); University Research Council, Explaining Vegetation Trends in Sahelian West Africa: Remote Sensing, Ethnography, and GIS (2015-2017). Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 238/ENEC 238, Human Ecology of Africa; ANTH 419, Anthropological Application of GIS; ANTH 459/ENEC 459, Ecological Anthropology; ENEC 567, Ecological Analyses and Application.
Dale Whittington
dale_whittington@unc.edu
Professor, Environmental Sciences and Engineering Gillings School of Global Public Health;
Professor, City and Regional Planning
Specialization: Water and sanitation planning in developing countries; environmental policy. Relevant Courses Taught: PLAN 685/ENVR 685, Water and Sanitation Planning and Policy in Lesser Developed Countries.
Ronald Williams
rcw@email.unc.edu
Assistant Professor; African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Specialization: African American political thought; race and public policy; African Diaspora politics; race and U.S. foreign relations; and 20th Century African American history. Relevant Courses Taught: AAAD 130, Introduction to African American and Diaspora Studies.
Nadia Yaqub
yaqub@email.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Specialization: Oral Arabic poetry; Modern Arabic literature and film. Relevant Courses Taught: ASIA 64, First Year Seminar: Arab World Photography; ARAB 150, Introduction to Arab Culture; ARAB 151, Arabic Literature through the Ages; ARAB 337, Borders and Walls in the Arab World; ARAB 407-408, Readings in Arabic; ARAB 434, Modern Arabic Literature in Translation; ARAB 453, Film, Nation, and Identity in the Arab World.
Chifundo Zimba
czimba@unclilongwe.org
Global Heath and Malawian Language and Culture Workshop Facilitator, African Studies Center and Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Specialization: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Malawi; Malawi language and culture. Relevant Courses Taught: Chichewa workshop.