College of Social Science

      Anthropology

      		Economics
      Geography Sociology
      History MATRIX
      Labor & Industrial Relations Political Science


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      Fayyaz Hussain, Visiting Assistant Professor: hussain3@msu.edu. Center for Integrative Studies
      Anthropology
      William Derman, Professor: derman@msu.edu. Gambia, Guinea, Malawi, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe. Social structure and social change in peasant societies, social impact analysis and development planning.

       David Dwyer, Professor Emeritus, Anthropology and African Language Program:: dwyer@msu.edu. Website: http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~anp/crp/crpbios/dwyer.htm Cameroon, Liberia, Sierra Leone. Language and culture, phonology and tonology, African language proficiency evaluation, self-instructional language programs.

       Todd Fenton, Assistant Professor: fentont@msu.edu.  

      Anne Ferguson, Associate Professor: Fergus12@msu.edu. Website: http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~anp/crp/crpbios/ferguson.htm Southern Africa. Agrarian and environmental change, social impact analysis, gender relations.

      Mara Leichtman, Assistant Professor: leichtml@msu.edu.       Transnational religion and migration; globalization; community change; Islam, politics, culture, and identity; ethnicity; state/society relations; West Africa (Senegal) Middle East and N. Africa, US.

      Kristin Peterson, Professor: krisp@msu.edu. Theories of capital; medicine, science, and technology; pharmaceuticals; post-coloniality and globalization; transnational feminism; Nigeria and West.

      Larry H. Robbins, Professor: lrobbins@msu.edu. Website: http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~anp/archaeology/archeo_bios/robbins.htm       Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda. African prehistory, ethno-archaeology.

       Norman J. Sauer, Professor: nsauer@msu.edu. Physical and forensic anthropology.
      Economics

      Lisa Cook, Assistant Professor: lisacook@msu.edu.

      Carl E. Liedholm, Professor: liedhol1@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~ec/faculty/liedholm/liedholm.html Botswana, Cote d' Ivoire, Kenya, and Sierra Leone. Small-scale enterprises in developing countries.

       John Giles, Assistant Professor: gilesj@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~gilesj

      Geography

      Ellen Bassett, Assistant Professor:Urban and Regional Planning. basset10@msu.edu. Website: http://www.environment.msu.edu/expertise/faculty.php?lname=Bassett&fname=Ellen Kenya, South Africa, Uganda. Assessment of environmental planning and management in Uganda and titling and regularization of squatters on Kenya's coastal strip. Co-Editor, African Rural and Urban Studies.

       David J. Campbell, Professor: djc@msu.edu. David Campbells Website. All regions of sub-Saharan Africa, especially Cameroon, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Zimbabwe. Land-use in arid and semiarid areas, food security, social and economic aspects of drought and desertification.

      Chris Duvall, Assistant Professor, Arriving at MSU in Jan. 2007.

      Assefa Mehretu, Professor: mehretu@msu.edu URL: http://www.msu.edu/user/mehretu Ethiopia, Zimbabwe. Economic geography, urbanization.

      Joseph Messina, Assistant Professor: jmp@msu.edu. Website: http://www.geo.msu.edu/facstaff/messina

      Jennifer Olson, Visiting Assistant Professor: olsonjj@msu.edu. Website: http://www.geo.msu.edu/olsonjen

      Leo Zulu, Assistant Professor, Arriving at MSU in Sept. 2006

      History

      Nwando Achebe, Associate Professor: achebe@msu.edu. History of West Africa, focus on Nigeria. Peter Alegi, Assistant Professor: alegi@msu.edu. History of Southern Africa, focus on South Africa and sport

      Pero Dagbovie, Assistant Professor: dagbovie@msu.edu. Website: http://www.aaas.msu.edu/dagbovie.html

      Laurent DuBois, Assistant Professor History:       dubois1@msu.edu. Website: http://www.history.msu.edu/faculty/dubois_l.html African Religion and the French involvement in the slave trade

      Emine Evered, Assistant Professor: evered@msu.edu. History of Ottoman Empire, including Sudan and Egypt.

      Walter Hawthorne, Associate Professor: walterh@msu.edu.

      Mark L. Kornbluh, Professor and Chair, Department of History; Director, Matrix (Humanities, Arts, Letters, and Social Science On-line: mark@mail.matrix.msu.edu. Website: http://www.history.msu.edu/faculty/kornbluh.html  

      David W. Robinson, Jr., University Distinguished Professor: robins22@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/~robins22Francophone, West Africa. History of Senegal and Mali in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  

      MATRIX
      Peter B. Knupfer, Associate Professor, E-mail: peter-sa@mail.matrix.msu.edu. MATRIX. Director: South Africa National Cultural Heritage Training & Technology Project. South Africa. Public history, Humanities Technology, museum consulting and development South Africa,
      Labor & Industrial Relations
      John Beck, Associate Professor, Labor and Industrial Relations and Adjunct Curator, MSU Museum, : beckj@msu.edu
      Political Science

      "See also James Madison College"

      Mohammed Ayoob, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Middle East Studies: ayoob@msu.edu. Security, conflict, and international relations in South Asia, Middle East, and Africa
      Ravinder Bhavnani, Assistant Professor: bhavnani@msu.edu. Politics of civil strife in Africa and Asia, focus Rwanda.

      Michael Bratton, Professor and Director, Afrobarometer Project: michael.bratton@ssc.msu.edu. Website: http://polisci.msu.edu/~pls/polisciweb/faculty/bratton.html Conflict prevention, mitigation, and response in East and Southern Africa and political and economic resources in Somalia.

      Adrienne LeBas, Assistant Professor: lebas@msu.edu Website: http://www.msu.edu/~lebas

      Carolyn Logan, Associate DIrector, Afrobarometer Project: clogan@msu.edu Assisting in directing the Afrobarometer project. Kenya, Somalia, South Africa. Conflict prevention, mitigation and response in East and Southern Africa, and political and economic resources in Somalia.
      Charles Matzke, Visiting Assistant Professor: matzkec@msu.edu Politics of West Africa, focus Northern Nigeria.

      Barry N. Stein, Professor: stein@msu.edu. Website: http://www.msu.edu/user/stein/ East and Central Africa. Refugee resettlement, international relations.

      Sociology
      Lawrence M. Busch, University Distinguished Professor: Lawrence.Busch@ssc.msu.edu. CV. http://www.msu.edu/user/buschll/ Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, Sudan, Togo, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. Agricultural research, policy and management, institutional development.

       Craig Harris, Associate Professor: harris@msu.edu. Website: http://africa.msu.edu/PLEA/craigcu.htm Senegal, East Africa. Environmental sociology.

       Zakia Salime, Visiting Professor: salime@msu.edu. Sociology of Gender, North Africa

      David Wiley, Professor, Director of the African Studies Center wiley@msu.edu URL: http://www.soc.msu.edu/faculty/wiley.htm. East and Southern Africa. Social and economic development and the environment, scholars and foreign policy-making, internationalizing educational curricula, media images of Africa.

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