Africa Experts
Visiting Researcher, African Studies Center, Boston University; Consultant
Affiliated with the African Studies Center at Boston University, Marc Sommers is an internationally recognized expert on youth concerns in war and post-war countries. After serving as the headmaster of a girls’ school in Kenya and directing a Red Cross-sponsored community health program in New York, Marc earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University, choosing as his dissertation to...
Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
I am a Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My teaching and research interests are in African politics, comparative politics, and gender studies in an international context. I am the author of Women and Politics in Uganda (2000) and Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania (1997). I have a fo...
Senior Lecturer and Head, International Studies, School of Arts, Monash University, South Africa
Anna-Mart van Wyk is a senior lecturer and chair of International Studies at Monash University’s South African campus, where she teaches courses on arms control and international security, diplomacy in international relations, and post-1945 world history. Presently, she is a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, and an Associate of the LSE...
Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies & History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Vaughan is the Geoffrey Canada Professor for Africana Studies & History at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He was also Director of the Africana Studies Program at Bowdoin. Vaughan came to Bowdoin College from Stony Brook University where he was a professor of Africana Studies & History, associate dean of the Graduate School, and associate provost. He is the author and editor of eight bo...
Emeritus Professor, City University of New York
Professor Herbert Weiss has been a student of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 1959. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at City University of New York and Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, CUNY. The main focus of his research has been nationalism, independence struggles, mass mobilization, protest, democratization, elections, decentra...