Oluwakemi “Kemi” Balogun 
Associate professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and sociology 
Interests: Globalization, nationalism, culture, race/ethnicity, immigration, embodiment, Africana studies

Lindsay Braun 
Associate professor of history
Interests: Southern Africa 1750-1950, East Africa 1850-1960, comparative colonialism, environmental history, history of science and technology (esp. geography)

Alfredo Burlando 
Associate professor of economics
Interests: Development economics, economics of corruption, savings strategies in developing countries, health and fertility

Stephen Dueppen 
Associate professor of anthropology
Interests: Origins and development of complex non-centralized political systems in West Africa

Daphne Gallagher 
Associate dean for undergraduate studies, Clark Honors College 
Interests: Agricultural economies, non-urban and urban complex societies, ethnobotany, interregional trading systems, ancient industries and the effects of ancient diseases on populations

Ibrahim Gassama 
Professor emeritus of law
Interests: Tort law and interrelationships among human rights, environmental degradation, and economic development

Habib Iddrisu 
Associate professor of ethnomusicology and dance 
Interests: Dance, ethnomusicology, West African music and dance practice and performance, cultural studies, post-colonial independence history, political economy, oral history, African diaspora studies, and the new internationalism

Leigh Johnson 
Associate professor of geography
Interests: Disasters, climate change and environmental risk, political ecology, finance, development studies, East Africa

Lanie Millar 
Associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese 
Interests: 20th-21st century Caribbean literature, Latin American literature, African literature, Lusophone literatures, Global South studies, Postcolonial studies, race and blackness, Critical Theory

Doris Payne 
Professor emerita of linguistics
Interests: Description and documentation of minority languages, especially South American and East African languages

Leslie Steeves 
Senior associate dean for academic affairs, professor in the School of Journalism and Communication
Interests: African studies; development communication; feminist media studies; media and globalization

B Mokaya Bosire 
Senior instructor of linguistics
Interests: Swahili, Sheng, African languages and Urban vernaculars

Yvonne Braun 
Professor of global studies 
Interests: Intersection of gender, development, environment, and globalization, with a specific focus on the social and socio-environmental consequences of a large-scale World Bank funded dam development project in Lesotho, Southern Africa

Andre Djiffack 
Associate professor of French and Francophone studies 
Interests: Francophone literatures, 20th-century French literature, colonial and postcolonial studies

Stephen Frost 
Professor of anthropology
Interests: Evolutionary theory, human and primate evolution

Dennis Galvan 
Dean and vice provost, Division of Global Engagement, professor of global studies 
Interests: culture and development, culturally sustainable development, identity and community, political legitimation, multiple forms of modernity, primary field work in West Africa, secondary field work in Indonesia

Melissa Graboyes 
Associate professor of history
Interests: History of medicine, specifically epidemic diseases; history of modern Africa, with an emphasis on issues related to global health

Rita Honka 
Senior instructor II of dance 
Interests: Modern and African dance with a specialization in Somatics

Allison McGuffie 
Career instructor of cinema studies and English
Interests: Film theory and history, African cinemas, gender and sexuality in cinema, trans* and cinema, international nonprofit media industries, health communication media, political economy of international aid, transnational feminist studies, postcolonial theory, queer theory, video game critical studies, ethnographic film, third world cinema, ideology and cinema

S. Senyo Ofori-Parku 
Associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication 
Interests: Advertising, consumer insights, and strategy; environmental health risk communication; green consumer behavior; corporate sustainability; social construction of risks

Kory Russel 
Assistant professor of landscape architecture and environmental studies
Interests: Water, sanitation, container-based sanitation, informal settlements

Stephen Wooten 
Associate professor of global studies 
Interests: Food studies, local-global dynamics, agrarian change, expressive culture