Africanist Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill
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.
John Akin
john_akin@unc.eduCarr Distinguished Professor and Chair, Economics
Specialization: Financing of health systems in developing countries.
Relevant Courses Taught: ECON 851, Health Economics in the Developing World.
Sahar Amer
samer@email.unc.eduAssociate 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 101-102 Beginning Arabic; ARAB 203-204, Intermediate Arabic; ARAB 305-306, Advanced Arabic; ARAB 150, Introduction to Arab Culture.
Barbara Anderson
b_anderson@unc.eduAssociate Director, African Studies Center; Lecturer, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Reflective practice; adult and continuing professional education; educational consulting in African and African American Studies; managed grants from UCIS, CIT, NCHS, and NEH for course development and outreach programs.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, Introduction to Africa; online AFRI 101 for Teachers.
Glaire Anderson
glaire@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Art
Specialization: History of Islamic architecture; pre-modern Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism; Orientalism and visual culture; and the Historiography of Islamic Art.
Relevant Courses Taught: ART 154, Introduction to Art & Architecture of the Islamic Lands; ART 290, Topics in Art History: Art in the Age of the Caliphate; Art 450, The City as Monument: Cities and Society in the Medieval Islamic Lands; ART 458, Islamic Palaces, Gardens & Court Culture (8th-16th c. CE); ART 561, Art & Society in Medieval Islamic Spain & North Africa; ART 956, Graduate Seminar: Orientalism & Art.
Martine Antle
mcantle@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, Romance Languages
Specialization: Twentieth-Century French Studies; African Francophone literature; postmodernism and cultural studies.
Relevant Courses Taught: Intermediate & Advanced French Conversation, Survey of French Literature, Advanced Composition, Francophone Studies, Studies in French & Francophone Drama, Francophone African Literature Cultural Diversity in France Today, Identities in French & Francophone Contexts.
Tomeiko Ashford
tashford@email.unc.eduAssociate Director, Institute of African American Research
Relevant Experience: ASC Advisory Board member
Idris Assani
assani@email.unc.eduProfessor, Mathematics
Specialization: Ergodic theory; probability theory.
Leann Bankoski
bankoski@unc.eduProgram Coordinator, Carolina for Kibera
Oscar Barbarin
barbarin@email.unc.eduProfessor, School of Social Work
Specialization: Child development; culture & mental health; early childhood education.
Relevant Experience: Quantitative research in Africa, health and mental health of children and adolescents.
Wilfrida Behets
Frieda_Behets@unc.eduAssociate Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Specialization: Sexually transmitted infections; HIV/AIDS.
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 757, Epidemiology and Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries; EPID 898, Epidemiology Bioethics in Developing Countries.
Trude Bennett
trude_bennett@unc.eduAssociate Professor, Maternal and Child Health, School of 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 730, Reproductive Health Policy, EPID 690, Problems in Epidemiology (Section: Global Health Ethics Seminar); HPAA 496, Readings in Health Policy and Administration (Section: Critical Global Health Issues).
Margaret Bentley
pbentley@unc.eduProfessor and Associate Dean for Global Health, School of Public Health
Specialization: Maternal and child nutrition; HIV prevention; HIV and breastfeeding; women’s health; reproductive health.
Relevant Courses Taught: NUTR 745, International Nutrition; PUBH 510, Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health; PUBH 511, Critical Issues in Global Public Health.
Stephen Birdsall
birdsall@email.unc.eduProfessor, Geography
Specialization: The role of place in personal and cultural decisions.
Relevant Courses Taught: GEOG 120, World Regional Geography; GEOG 125, Cultural Landscapes.
Judith Blau
judith_blau@unc.eduProfessor, Sociology
Specialization: Justice studies, human rights; sociology of aesthetics; critical race theory.
Relevant Courses Taught: SOCI 111, Human Societies; SOCI 273, Social and Economic Justice; SOCI 812, Civil Society.
Shelah Bloom
ssbloom@email.unc.eduResearch Assistant Professor, Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health
Specialization: Reproductive health and HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
Relevant Courses Taught: MHCH 716, International Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
Karen Booth
kmbooth@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, Women’s Studies
Specialization: Gender and sexuality; issues related to imperialism, globalization and underdevelopment in the Third World; transnational feminisms; transnational queer politics; HIV/AIDS; reproductive health.
Relevant Courses Taught: WMST/INTS 281, Gender and Global Change; WMST 293, Gender and Imperialism; WMST/INTS 388, The International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health; WMST/INTS 410, Comparative Queer Politics; WMST 890, Graduate seminar on human rights, feminism, and sexuality.
Kenneth Broun
ksbroun@email.unc.eduHenry Brandis Professor, School of Law
Specialization: Civil procedure; evidence; professional responsibility; and trial advocacy.
Emily Burrill
eburrill@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Women's Studies
Specialization: Gender in Africa.
Relevant Courses Taught: WMST 237, African Gender History; WMST 289, Women and the Law in Africa and the Middle East; WMST 293, Gender and Imperialism; HIST 535, Women and Gender in African History.
Gina Chowa
chowa@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, School of Social Work
Specialization: International social and economic development; concept and measurement of poverty in Africa; poverty reduction and asset building in Africa.
Myron Cohen
myron_cohen@med.unc.eduJ. Herbert Bate Professor of Medicine, Chief Director of Microbiology & Immunology, UNC Center for Infectious Diseases
Specialization: Infectious diseases; ASC Advisory Board member.
Shauna Collier
colliers@email.unc.eduStone Center Librarian
Specialization: The Stone Center library focuses on the African American experience, Africa, and the African Diaspora, particularly the social sciences and humanities.
Patrick Conway
patrick_conway@unc.eduProfessor, Economics
Specialization: Problems of developing and transition countries; economic development; international trade and finance.
Relevant Courses Taught: ECON 360, Survey of International and Development Economics; ECON 460, International Economics; ECON 560, Advanced International Economics; ECON 960, Seminar in International Economics; ECON 966, Seminar in Economic Development.
Amy Cooke
acooke@email.unc.eduLecturer, Environment and Ecology
Specialization: Political and human ecology in Eastern Africa, natural resources, agriculture and food security issues, and conservation.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, Introduction to African Civilizations; AFRI 266, Health, Population and Environment in Contemporary Africa.
Altha Cravey
cravey@unc.eduAssociate 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.
Alan Cross
Across@unc.eduProfessor, 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
Sian Curtis
sian_curtis@unc.eduResearch Associate Professor, Maternal and Child Health
Specialization: International health; women's health; contraceptive use dynamics; monitoring and evaluation of international population, maternal and child health, and HIV/AIDS programs; international maternal health; infant mortality.
Relevant Courses Taught: MHCH 716, International Family Planning and Reproductive Health.
Robert Daniels
robert_daniels@unc.eduDistinguished Associate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Cultural anthropology; social systems; kinship; ethnicity in Africa; cross-cultural studies.
Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 057, First Year Seminar: Today in Africa; ANTH 226, Peoples of Africa.
Patricia Dominguez
patricia@email.unc.eduHumanities Bibliographer, Academic Affairs Library
Specialization: Comparative literature.
Roberta Ann Dunbar
radunbar@email.unc.eduAssociate 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.
Ahmed El Shamsy
elshamsy@email.unc.eduAssistant 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.
Eugenia Eng
eugenia_eng@unc.eduProfessor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Specialization: Integration of community development and health education interventions in rural US and developing nations.
Relevant Courses Taught: HBHE 710, Community Capacity, Competence, and Power: Community-Based Participatory Action Research.
Carl Ernst
cernst@email.unc.eduWilliam R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor, Religious Studies
Specialization: Islamic Studies.
Relevant Courses Taught: RELI 180, Introduction to Islamic Civilization.
Terence Evens
tmevens@email.unc.eduProfessor, 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.
Donato Fhunsu
dfhunsu21@unc.eduLecturer, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Lingala language instruction.
Relevant Courses Taught: LGLA 401; LGLA 402; LGLA 403; LGLA 404.
Dominique Fisher
domfisc@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, Romance Languages
Specialization: Nineteenth-century poetry; literary and cultural theory.
Suzanne Gulledge
sgulledg@email.unc.eduProfessor/Director International Social Studies Project and Middle Grades Teacher Education Program, School of Education
Specialization: Curriculum and instruction; social studies education.
Sudhanshu Handa
shanda@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, Public Policy
Specialization: International development; poverty; program evaluation; social policy.
Relevant Courses Taught: PLCY 895
Mamie Sackey Harris
msackey@email.unc.eduAfrica Programs Manager, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Irving Hoffman
irving_hoffman@med.unc.eduAssociate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Director of International Operations
Specialization: Director of the UNC Project in Malawi.
Donald Hornstein
dhornste@email.unc.eduAubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law, School of Law
Specialization: Environmental law; administrative law; insurance law; natural resources law; international rivers.
Nasser Isleem
nmisleem@email.unc.eduLecturer, Asian Studies
Specialization: English Literature, education management, teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers; translation of books, articles and documents.
Relevant Courses Taught: Elementary, intermediate and conversational Arabic
Fatimah Jackson
fatimahj@email.unc.eduProfessor, Anthropology
Specialization: Director of the Institute of African-American Research (IAAR).
Pamela Jagger
pjagger@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Public Policy
Specialization: Energy and environmental policy.
Lisa Jones-Christensen
lisa_christensen@unc.eduAssistant Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Joseph Jordan
jfjordan@email.unc.eduDirector of the Sonya H. Stone Center for Black Culture and History; Associate Professor, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: African Diaspora in the Americas; black radical studies; African-American Studies (cultural politics) African Studies (politics of development); African Diaspora in the Americas; Diaspora art and cultural politics; Pan-Africanism in the Diaspora.
Waithera Karim-Sesay
waithera@email.unc.eduLecturer, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Swahili instruction, African history.
Jay Kaufman
jay_kaufman@unc.eduAssociate Professor, Epidemiology, School of 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.
Thomas Kelley
takelley@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, School of Law; Community Development Law Clinic
Specialization: African customary law and legal anthropology, the law of emerging nations, the law of non-profit organizations and philanthropy.
Relevant Courses Taught: LAW 457, African Law and Development.
Charles Kurzman
kurzman@unc.eduAssociate Professor, Sociology
Specialization: Islam; democracy.
Relevant Courses Taught: SOCI 273, Social and Economic Justice; SOCI 419, Sociology of the Islamic World; SOCI 810, Social Movements; SOCI 811, Political Sociology.
Michael Lambert
mlambert@email.unc.eduDirector, African Studies Center; Associate Professor, African and Afro-American Studies; Adjunct Associate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Political anthropology, warfare, nationalism, migration, urbanization.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, Introduction to Africa; AFRI 368, Political Protest and Conflict in Africa; AFRI 395, Field Research Methods in African Studies; AFRI 480, Ethnography of Africa; AFRI 522, West Africa: Society and Economy in the Twentieth Century.
Christopher Lee
cjlee1@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, History
Specialization: Modern Southern Africa.
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.
Margaret Lee
leemc@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Africa and the international trade regime; Southern African politics; regional integration in Africa; African political economy.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, Introduction to Africa; AFRI 265, Africa in the Global System; AFRI 540, 21st Century Scramble for Africa.
Donna LeFebvre
lefebvre@unc.eduSenior 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/AFRI 520.
Paul Leslie
pwleslie@unc.eduProfessor and Chair, Anthropology; Curriculum in Ecology
Specialization: Biological anthropology; demography; pastoralism, especially in East Africa; the relationship among the demographic, socioeconomic, and biological characteristics of human populations, in an ecological context. Interdisciplinary study of human-environment interactions in Turkana, Kenya (1982-1999); population, land use, and livelihood diversification among Maasai in Northern Tanzania (1998- present); comparative study of consequences of parks and protected areas for livelihoods, land use, biodiversity, and conservation programs in East and southern Africa (2003-present).
Lisa Lindsay
lalindsa@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, History
Specialization: Social history of colonial Africa; the Atlantic slave trade; the African Diaspora; Nigeria.
Relevant Courses Taught: HIST 130, Africa in the Twentieth Century: Transformations in Culture and Power; HIST 176H, Honors Seminar in Third World History; HIST 278, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade; HIST 292H, Topics in History- The U.S. and Africa; HIST 393, Undergraduate Seminar in History (Third World/Non-Western) Section Title: Africa Since 1940; HIST 534: The African Diaspora; HIST 535, Women and Gender in African History.
Scott Madry
madrys@email.unc.eduResearch Associate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Applications of Geomatics (remote sensing, GIS, GPS, and spatial analysis) for regional cultural and environmental studies. Archaeological predictive modeling, regional environmental analysis, gorilla habitat research.
Carol Magee
cmagee@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Art
Specialization: History of contemporary and traditional African art; How Americans come to know and understand Africa through US culture (museums, artists, media, toys, etc); African photography.
Relevant Courses Taught: ART 155, African Art Survey; ART 255, African Art and Culture; ART 353, African Masquerades and Ritual; ART 453, Africa in the American Imagination; ART 487, African Impulse in African African-American Art; ART 488, Contemporary African Art.
Suzanne Maman
maman@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Specialization: Public Health; HIV/AIDS; Sub-Saharan Africa.
Relevant Courses Taught: HBHE 753, Qualitative Research Methods.
Dale McKinley
drdalet@metroweb.co.zaAdjunct 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).
Timothy Mcmillan
tjm1@email.unc.eduAdjunct 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.
Steven Meshnick
meshnick@email.unc.eduProfessor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Specialization: Malaria, Mother-to-child transmission of HIV, AIDS-associated opportunistic infections.
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 756, Control of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries.
Margaret Miles
mmiles@email.unc.eduResearch 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.
Alphonse Mutima
smutima@email.unc.eduAdjunct Assistant Professor; African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: African language instruction; roles of African intellectuals in central African politics.
Relevant Courses Taught: Elementary through advanced Swahili.
Adamson Muula
muula@email.unc.eduConprehensive Cancer Center, and Language Instructor for Malawi Program
Relevant Courses Taught: Chichewa language instruction.
Julius Nyang’oro
jen321@email.unc.eduProfessor and Chair, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: Comparative international political economy.
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.
Georges Nzongola
nzongola@email.unc.eduProfessor, African and Afro-American Studies
Specialization: African politics, with emphasis on the political history of Africa since 1956; governance, with particular interest in the theory and practice of democratic governance; and development policy and administration, with emphasis on African economic development.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, AFRI 523
Todd Ochoa
tochoa@email.unc.eduAssistant 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.
Bobbi Owen
owenbob@unc.eduProfessor, Dramatic Art
Specialization: Costume history; traditional dress in Africa and Asia; theatrical design and designers.
Relevant Courses Taught: DRAM 475
Audrey Pettifor
apettif@email.unc.eduResearch Instructor, Epidemiology
Specialization: HIV prevention among young women in South Africa; HIV prevention interventions for young couples in South Africa; structural interventions for HIV prevention; behaviors of individuals with Acute HIV Infection and behavioral interventions for the acute period; and prevention interventions for HIV infected individuals and youth.
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 756, Control of Infectious Diseases in Developing Countries.
Barry Popkin
popkin@unc.eduProfessor, Nutrition, School of Public Health
Specialization: Economic and epidemiological analysis of trends in dietary intake, physical activity and body composition around the world; Nutrition Transition research; obesity economics and epidemiology.
Relevant Courses Taught: NUTR 745, International Nutrition.
Peter Redfield
redfield@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Technology and society; colonial history and postcolonial relations; nonprofit organizations and transnational experts; humanitarianism and human rights; Europe, French Guiana, Uganda.
Relevant Courses Taught: ANTH 280 (Anthropology of War and Peace); ANTH 322 (Anthropology and Human Rights)
Stuart Rennie
stuart_rennie@dentistry.unc.eduResearch Assistant Professor, Dental Ecology
Specialization: Research ethics and bioethics in the developing world.
Relevant Experience: Qualitative research on community attitudes in Kinshasa (DR Congo) towards rationing of AIDS treatment, funded by Center for AIDS research (2005); Project manager of NIH/Fogarty Bioethics Award (2004-2012); Ethics consultant on UNC-Global AIDS Program activities in DR Congo and Madagascar; Lead writer, Ethics Guidance for the HIV Prevention Trials Network (2009).
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 140 Global Health Ethics Seminar, EPID 390 History and Philosophy of Epidemiology
Andrew Reynolds
asreynol@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, Political Science
Specialization: Democratic design; ethnic conflict; plural societies; Africa.
Relevant Courses Taught: POLI 067, Designing Democracy; POLI 130, Introduction to Comparative Politics; POLI 131, Political Change and Modernization; POLI 431, African Politics and Society.
Paul Roberge
ptr@email.unc.eduProfessor, Germanic Languages; Linguistics
Specialization: Historical linguistics; pidgin and creole languages; language and society; Germanic languages; Afrikaans.
Relevant Courses Taught: GERM 125, 240 Afrikaans I, II; GERM 252, South Africa in Literary Perspective; LING 542, Pidgins and Creoles.
Richard Rosen
rich_rosen@unc.eduProfessor 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).
John Rutledge
jbr@email.unc.eduBibliographer, 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.
Omid Safi
omid@email.unc.eduProfessor, 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.
Eunice Sahle
eunice@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, African and Afro-American Studies and International Studies
Specialization: International political economy; international relations; comparative political economy of development.
Relevant Courses Taught: AFRI 101, Introduction to Africa; AFRI 265, Africa in the Global System; AFRI 375, Politics of Cultural Production in Africa; AFRI 416, Human Rights and Social Justice Movements in Africa; INTS 210, Global Issues in the Twentieth Century; INTS 405, Comparative Political Economics of Development.
Mamarame Seck
mseck@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, African and African-American Studies
Specialization: Wolof language instruction and curriculum development; Wolof language and literature; African linguistics; Sufi Islam in West Africa; Wolof oral discourse.
Relevant Courses Taught: WOLO 101, WOLO 102, WOLO 203
Friederike Seeger
fseeger@unc.eduDirector, Burch Programs & Honors Study Abroad
Specialization: International program mangement and development.
Bereket Selassie
bselassi@email.unc.eduWilliam E. Luchtenburg Professor of African 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: AFRI 050, First-Year Seminar: Kings, Presidents, and Generals: Africa’s Bumpy Road to Democracy; AFRI 101, Introduction to Africa; AFRI 370, Policy Problems in African Studies; AFRI 474, Key Issues in African and Afro-American Linkages; AFRI 524, North-East Africa.
Sarah Shields
sshields@email.unc.eduAssociate 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 138, Introduction to Islamic Civilization; HIST 139, Later Islamic Civilization and the Modern Muslim World.
Jennifer S. Smith
jsssmith@email.unc.eduResearch Associate Professor, Epidemiology, School of 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.
John Stewart
jfstewar@email.unc.eduProfessor, Economics
Specialization: Industrial organization and antitrust; health economics; health issues in less developed countries.
Ronald Strauss
ron_strauss@unc.eduDistinguished Professor and Chair, Dental Ecology; Social Medicine
Specialization: Social research related to stigma, social responses to disease, craniofacial conditions and HIV/AIDS, icluding work in Malawi.
John Sweet
sweet@unc.eduAssociate Professor, History
Specialization: The dynamics of colonialism and the interplay of religious cultures.
Luke Swindler
luke_swindler@unc.eduLibrarian/Social Science Bibliographer, Academics Affairs Library
Specialization: Librarianship; history; publishing.
James Thomas
jim_thomas@unc.eduAssociate Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Specialization: Social epidemiology, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, public health ethics.
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 898, Global Health Ethics Seminar.
Charles Van der Horst
charles_vanderhorst@med.unc.eduProfessor, Medicine; Associate Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
Specialization: HIV in Africa and the US and 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.
Annelies Van Rie
vanrie@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Epidemiology, School of Public Health
Specialization: International health, tuberculosis, HIV, pediatric HIV care.
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 690, Problems in Epidemiology, section title: Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases.
Gretchen Van Vliet
Gretchen_VanVliet@unc.eduAdjunct Assistant Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program
Specialization: Director of the Office of Global Health, which provides a centralized location to facilitate individual and collaborative global health efforts by faculty and students.
Relevant Courses Taught: PUBH 510, Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health.
Dorothy Verkerk
dverkerk@email.unc.eduAssociate Professor, Art
Specialization: Early medieval art; leading Burch Seminar in Morocco.
Judith Wegner
judith_wegner@unc.eduProfessor, School of Law
Specialization: Law; higher education.
Relevant Experience: Worked to create linkage program with University of Asmara, Eritrea
Sharon Weir
sharon_weir@unc.eduResearch Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
Specialization: Africa, AIDS prevention and trends.
Relevant Courses Taught: EPID 690, Problems in Epidemiology, section title: HIV in Developing Countries; EPID 757, Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries.
Colin West
ctw@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Anthropology
Specialization: Societal adaptation to global environmental change, specifically among Mossi farming communities in Burkina Faso.
Dale Whittington
dale_whittington@unc.eduProfessor, Environmental Sciences & Engineering, School of Public Health; 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.
Nadia Yaqub
yaqub@email.unc.eduAssistant Professor, Asian Studies; Arabic
Specialization: Oral Arabic poetry; modern Arabic literature; classical Arabic literature; Arabic linguistics; Modern Arabic literature and film.
Relevant Courses Taught: Elementary Arabic through advanced Arabic; Introduction to Arabic Culture; Modern Arabic Literature in Translation; Advanced Readings in Arabic
